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The Internet and Computerization

     

5 March 2008
Pakistani regime ban of YouTube highlights threat to free Internet

14 January 2008
Australian Labor government threatens to censor Internet

23 March 2006
On orders from prime minister's department and police: Australian web site shut down

20 March 2006
Judge rejects government demand for Google search terms

14 February 2006
New version of Google Desktop threatens user privacy

7 February 2006
Google's China censorship sets dangerous precedent

23 November 2005
US secures continued control of Internet naming system

26 October 2005
Order broadens surveillance of Internet users

14 October 2005
Microsoft and RealNetworks settle antitrust case

17 September 2005
Microsoft anti-phishing software raises Internet privacy concerns

13 October 2004
FBI shuts down 20 antiwar web sites: an unprecedented act of Internet censorship

31 March 2004
European antitrust case finds against Microsoft

19 February 2004
Microsoft threat to discontinue Windows 98 and NT operating systems

23 December 2003
European battle over software patents

12 December 2003
US court case: Renewed attack on open source software

23 September 2003
Heavy-handed tactics against music fans: the recording industry's new assault

26 July 2003
Spanish cut-price music web site forced to close

10 May 2003
Music industry turns against file sharing customers

1 April 2003
Al-Jazeera web site under attack from pro-war hackers

28 March 2003
War coverage takes over as top Internet search

13 December 2002
Australian High Court libel ruling threatens Internet free speech

12 January 2002
Serious security flaws in Microsoft web browser
How safe is your computer?

6 November 2001
Settlement reached in Microsoft antitrust case

1 October 2001
PGP creator defends right to encrypt emails against calls for a ban

24 September 2001
Internet privacy threatened following terrorist attacks on US

10 September 2001
US Justice Department drops demand for Microsoft break-up

4 September 2001
European Union extends investigation of Microsoft

16 July 2001
British judge loosens restrictions against Internet Service Providers in Jamie Bulger case

6 July 2001
The Microsoft lawsuit: Appeals court ruling favours company

8 May 2001
Microsoft launches attack on open source software

3 May 2001
Recording industry giants vie for Napster user base

20 April 2001
Britain: New cybercrime police force threatens civil liberties

19 April 2001
Yahoo's capitulation to right wing pressure groups sets dangerous precedent

6 March 2001
Britain: Union hotline reveals widespread exploitation of call centre staff

5 March 2001
Napster seeks to block access to copyrighted music

28 February 2001
AOL-Time Warner threatens children running Harry Potter fan sites

24 February 2001
Napster offers record companies a new commercial arrangement

15 February 2001
US Court rejects Napster appeal

18 January 2001
Ten years of the World Wide Web

12 January 2001
Britain: new email spy laws lead to sackings

5 January 2001
Yahoo bans sale of Nazi memorabilia from its Internet auctions

6 December 2000
British intelligence services seek wide powers to spy on phone calls and Internet usage

2 December 2000
Microsoft appeal against break-up, claiming judge was biased

30 November 2000
Recording giants could join Bertelsmann's embrace of Napster

24 November 2000
French court rules that Yahoo must block access to auction site

4 November 2000
Online music-swap firm Napster forms strategic alliance with media giant Bertlesmann

23 October 2000
The Internet: US Congress to consider Web filtering in schools and libraries

18 October 2000
The Internet: US court challenges online anonymity

17 October 2000
What is the significance of the delay in the Napster ruling?

12 October 2000
British firms given right to spy on employees' e-mail and phone calls

10 October 2000
Napster offers deal to recording industry

2 October 2000
Conclusion to Microsoft anti-trust case delayed: Supreme Court decides against expedited hearing

15 September 2000
World Internet usage grows to 300 million

12 September 2000
MP3.com face up to $250m penalty for music copyright infringements

6 September 2000
Microsoft ordered to pay $1 million to US software firm

18 August 2000
LinuxWorld Conference highlights corporate interest in alternative computer operating system

17 August 2000
Pro-Napster protesters vandalise web sites

16 August 2000
Yahoo! granted reprieve in French court's attempt to block access

9 August 2000
European Union widens anti-trust case against Microsoft

2 August 2000
Clinton administration plan for FBI spying on email

28 July 2000
Temporary injunction granted against Napster

19 July 2000
British parliament set to adopt law enforcing police access to encrypted email

15 July 2000
Chinese government backs development of Linux operating system

9 June 2000
US Judge orders break-up of Microsoft

2 June 2000
Judge grants more time to government in Microsoft anti-trust case

23 May 2000
A glimpse behind the veil of business secrets
Microsoft lawsuit reveals predatory corporate practices

20 May 2000
New email virus potentially more damaging than "Love Bug"

18 May 2000
New Internet spy agency to be set up in Britain

10 May 2000
More than 20 countries affected
"Love-Bug" virus damage estimated at $10 billion

6 May 2000
Email virus wreaks havoc on corporate networks throughout Europe and America

5 May 2000
Metallica joins recording industry's attack on Napster
Rock band launches suit against Internet music downloads

2 May 2000
The Microsoft law suit, software development and the capitalist market

17 April 2000
French anti-racist group sets dangerous precedent in court action against Yahoo!

12 April 2000
Revelations about Echelon spy network intensify US-European tensions

4 April 2000
British Internet libel case threatens free speech internationally

31 March 2000
British Labour government to enforce police access to email encryption

26 February 2000
Britain's Police Federation forces shutdown of Internet web site

25 February 2000
Growing concern over Internet privacy

18 February 2000
Montreal Internet service provider raided by FBI

11 February 2000
Internet vandals threaten access and expression on the World Wide Web

Action against dissidents in airline contract struggle
US court orders seizure of Northwest flight attendants' home computers

4 February 2000
Russian President Putin introduces widespread state monitoring of the Internet

14 January 2000
AOL buyout of Time Warner: merger frenzy sweeping corporate America

29 December 1999
Surveys show significant growth in British Internet use

11 November 1999
Behind the Microsoft antitrust case: computer giants battle for markets and profits

17 August 1999
Social inequality and the World Wide Web

16 August 1999
Internet produces conflict between commerce and censorship

10 August 1999
White House plan for FBI Internet spying

16 July 1999
New techniques to boost the Internet's capacities

11 June 1999
Australian government introduces Internet censorship laws

18 May 1999
Censorship in the Information Age
How the British government failed to suppress list of MI6 agents

16 April 1999
UK Internet libel case could set dangerous precedent

27 March 1999
Political police will hack into computers
Wide new powers for Australian spy agency

5 March 1999
Privacy rights threatened by Intel's new computer chip

3 March 1999
Hackers shut down East Timor Internet addresses

2 March 1999
Internet crackdown in China

19 February 1999
Free Internet providers boost UK access

24 October 1998
US group sues over new attempt at Internet censorship

8 October 1998
Clampdown on child pornography used as pretext for state control of the Internet

2 June 1998
The US government case against Microsoft Monopoly and the development of computer software

An attack on democratic rights
Former CompuServe executive convicted in Internet censorship case

6 May 1998
British MI5 to gain access to encryption keys

15 April 1998
Monopoly in the computer software industry
The Microsoft case

 

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12 January 2002
Serious security flaws in Microsoft web browser
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23 May 2000
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