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The Public Interest Registry (PIR) assumed control Jan. 1 of the .org top-level domain registry from VeriSign Global Registry Services to begin the largest transfer of data from one registry to another in the history of the Internet. In April of last year, the ICANN Board of Directors selected PIR, the not-for-profit subsidiary of the […]

Accused of stealing and distributing through the Internet secret documents related to DirecTV’s latest anti-piracy technology, 19-year-old college student Igor Serebryany was arrested by the FBI in Los Angeles Thursday morning. Serebryany, who attends the University of Chicago but was in Los Angeles visiting his family, faces up to 10 years in prison and a […]

Although real-time and downloadable video accessible over the Internet continues to become more widely available and the amount of content is increasing, a new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) report says the medium is still not seen as a direct competitor to traditional video service. As part of the Ninth Annual Report on Competition in Video […]

Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor granted a Christmas wish to Hollywood last week when she issued a stay temporarily halting a California Supreme Court decision that limited the jurisdiction of a lawsuit filed against a Texas programmer who posted to the Web computer code designed to bypass copyright protections of DVDs. Along with hundreds […]

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is seeking additional information about commercial e-mail accounts used in violation of a court order prohibiting Internet connections at the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Barred from connecting to the Internet since December of last year because of security concerns about the vulnerability of Indian trust […]

South Carolina has opened the nation’s first statewide crime center dedicated to computer and other high tech crimes. The Columbia-based Computer Crime Center will handle the forensic examination of all evidence collected during the investigation of a computer crime. Investigations conducted by the center will include Internet fraud, child exploitation, computer intrusions, child pornography, denial-of-service […]

Notorious hacker Kevin Mitnick, sentenced to five years in federal prison after a 3-year manhunt, can resume using the Internet in January. Since being released from prison in 2000, Mitnick has been prohibited from using a computer connected to the Internet. The terms of that probation expire Jan. 20 and according to Dept. of Justice […]

Nextel Communications has raised its offer to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from $500 million to $850 million in the company’s effort to win FCC approval for a spectrum swap on the congested 800 MHz band. The Reston, Va.-based Nextel is proposing that the FCC relocate incumbent public safety agencies and private wireless licensees in […]

A new government report has found “major weaknesses” in the FBI’s financial management of its IT programs. According to the Justice Dept.’s Office of Inspector General (IG), “the FBI continues to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on IT projects without adequate assurance that these projects will meet their intended goals.” The report concludes that […]

In a long anticipated move, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has filed a counterclaim against 321 Studios, the Missouri developer of software designed to allow users to make a copy of a DVD to a blank CD or DVD. The MPAA wants to stop all sales of 321 Studios’ DVD X Copy, which […]

The White House scrambled over the weekend to alleviate privacy violation fears raised by its proposal to build a monitoring system as an “early warning center” to track Internet use in the U.S. The proposal is part of the final version of “The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace,” expected to be released in early 2003. […]

XM Satellite Radio has closed on new financing that includes $200 million in new funding and $250 million in payment deferrals and related credit facilities from General Motors. To raise the new funds, XM issued 10 percent senior secured notes due in 2009 and small concurrent common stock sale. Purchasers of the notes include American […]