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This week the Copyright Alert System is being put into effect on the Internet. The system is used as an alert to companies about copyright infringement on their websites. Now when people on the Internet attempt to copy and paste a company's work onto their own work, they will receive a series of warnings. Media companies will observe online traffic and report to Internet providers if they think work has been downloaded illegally. The person who did this will receive up to six warnings and after that service providers can stop their Internet flow or give them up to a $35 fine. This relates to the sharing of information through Web 2.0 because people's work that they upload can be stolen or plagiarized, and this is helping to prevent that by discouraging the stealing of work.

This article explains how Japan hides anti-piracy warnings on a peer to peer network. In Japan someone who pirats something that has been for sale can result in a 2 year jail time and 2,000,000 yen fine. This article relates to peer to peer networks and how they can pirate content on a peer-to-peer network

A ;new proposed law in the UK wants Skype and social networking sites to be required to keep communications for 12 months. I am thinking this would also apply to Twitter. Understandably, privacy concerns swirl around this proposal. "Ministers say change is needed to help fight crime and terrorism, but critics warn it is an attack on privacy. Internet service providers (ISPs) are obliged to keep details of users' web access, email and internet phone calls for 12 months, under an EU directive from 2009. Although the content of the calls is not kept, the sender, recipient, time of communication and geographical location does have to be recorded. The proposed new law - which the Home Office says will be brought in "as soon as parliamentary time allows" - would extend those requirements to social networking sites and internet phone services such as Skype."

Firefox minefield is the alpha version of Firefox 4 -- early testers report a very fast web browser -- but warning - IT IS STILL IN ALPHA!

"The Office of Fair Trading is warning debt collectors not to pursue people who owe them money on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. "

Important to include twitter as part of what you're reporting.

Interesting article w/ new term "hacktivists" -- politically motivated hackers. That is a new term. Twitter is written up in this report as being used by extremist groups of all kinds "socialists, human rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists, religious communities, atheists, political enthusiasts, hacktivists and others...." Why not just say everyone uses twitter? (Well, everyone DOESN"T use twitter but it can mobilize a lot of people in a pretty short time.)

An excellent document describing a 'wiki-war' incident in a class situation.

Gov. Jay Nixon signed legislation on Friday repealing a contentious law that had limited online chats between teachers and students and had caused a judge to warn that it infringed on free-speech rights. The law, enacted this year, barred Missouri teachers from using Web sites that allow "exclusive access" with students or former pupils who are 18 or younger.