"A plan proposed by U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., called the "Main Street
Fairness Act," would create a national law that forces online retailers to start
collecting sales taxes on purchases made over the Internet. Amounts will be
based on each state's already existing sales tax rates."
"business-to-consumer and business-to-business commerce conducted by
way of the
Internet
or other electronic networks.
E-commerce
originated in a standard for the exchange of documents during the 1948 - 49
Berlin blockade and airlift. Various industries elaborated upon the system until
the first general standard was published in 1975. The electronic data
interchange (EDI) standard is unambiguous, independent of any particular
machine, and flexible enough to handle most simple electronic transactions. In
addition to standard forms for business-to-business transactions, e-commerce
encompasses much wider activity - for example, the deployment of secure private
networks (intranets) for sharing information within a company, as well as
selective extensions of a company's intranet to collaborating business networks
(extranets). A new form of cooperation known as a virtual company, actually a
network of firms, each performing some of the processes needed to manufacture a
product or deliver a service, has flourished"
This article from the Illinois Statehouse News talks about how Govener Pat Quinn signed the new "Sexting" law. It states that under this law minors under the age of 18 who have been caught "sexting" have to go before a judge and could face community service, supervision, and counseling.