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Survey: Web users ignore illegal content
News While those putting up sites with illegal content aren't likely to be too concerned about the consequences of their actions, home and business users might be accidentally risking legal repercussions. So who should illegal content be reported to?
[May 17, 2004, 16:05]
EU earmarks €55m to tackle illegal web content
News The fight against illegal online content is set to get a substantial cash injection, following a vote on Wednesday in the European Parliament. The scheme, which will run from 2009 to 2013, aims to tackle "illegal content, promote a safer online...
[October 24, 2008, 14:57]
Survey: Web users ignore illegal content
Talkback I'm not surprised. When I've tried to do the right thing in the past, the response has been uniformly the same - nothing, silence, zilch. If those I reported these things to aren't interested, why should I be?
[May 18, 2004, 10:35]
IWF says ISPs must drop illegal newsgroups
News The Internet Watch Foundation on Wednesday announced its decision to take greater responsibility for illegal content on the Internet, and will be telling Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to drop newsgroups that are known to regularly contain...
[July 19, 2001, 10:10]
ISPA says 'Click' will make illegal use of Net easier
News BT's Click project could encourage the proliferation of illegal content on the Internet according to the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) which has now lodged a written complaint with the telecoms watchdog, Oftel.
[July 13, 1998, 15:50]
A Year Ago: ISPA says 'Click' will make illegal use of Net easier
News BT's Click project could encourage the proliferation of illegal content on the Internet according to the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) which has now lodged a written complaint with the telecoms watchdog, Oftel.
[July 13, 1999, 6:22]
Internet regulator considers anti-paedophile powers
News The Internet's regulatory body is considering proposals to step up its powers for dealing with Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who regularly host illegal content. A drawn-out board meeting on Thursday discussed whether the Internet Watch...
[November 21, 2001, 6:31]
Thus bends law to avoid responsibility for child porn
News The owner of ISP Demon Internet is using the Indecency with Children Act that criminalises the possession or distribution of child pornography, to justify its claim that it is illegal for an Internet Service Provider (ISP) to download indecent...
[March 28, 2001, 16:37]
Internet watchdog chief quits
News The decision comes amid controversy over whether the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) should beef up its powers for dealing with illegal content on the Internet. The regulator is currently in the process of revoking its advisory role, by taking...
[January 7, 2002, 16:53]
Filesharing and bilesharing: a 'three-strikes' rant
Blog According to the BBC, the coalition "wants the government to force internet service providers (ISPs) to disconnect users who ignore repeated warnings about sharing illegal content". Mr Woodward said: "The growing threat of illegal P2P (peer to peer...
[May 12, 2009, 12:43]
AOL's immunity from child porn to set UK precedent
News In Europe, you can notify a service provider if they are hosting illegal content and request them to take it down, but they are not liable to damages," said Bynoe. A Supreme Court's decision to shield America Online from responsibility for the sale...
[March 9, 2001, 14:45]
Web war rages over DVD-cracking site
News DeCSS is a program that can crack the code protecting copyrighted DVDs, letting people copy or use content for legal or illegal uses. In a move that free-speech activists hope will be trendsetting, Internet service provider Verio is standing up to...
[January 25, 2001, 9:03]
ISPs could be forced to remove paedophile content
News While it is impossible for ISPs to stop all illegal content from being published on newsgroups, I believe that there is much that can be done to police what is currently out there -- to protect the vulnerable and to increase our vigilance," said...
[February 21, 2001, 15:05]
IWF lambasted for plan to ban newsgroups
News The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) resolved on Wednesday to take a tougher line with Internet service providers (ISPs), by telling them to completely drop newsgroups that are found to contain illegal content on a regular basis.
[July 19, 2001, 17:22]
CompuServe ex-boss being tried by `naive' Bavarians
News Somm's lawyers argue that ISPs should not be liable for prosecution if illegal content is present on their servers and want online services to be treated in the same way telephone companies are: a telephone company cannot be held liable for...
[May 13, 1998, 14:12]
UK ISPs clean up their act
News The IWF noted that in the US there is no effective notice and take down system “and very few US ISPs have registered with the US equivalent of the IWF to deal with the problem of potentially illegal child abuse content.
[March 26, 2004, 9:55]
Huge raid on alleged Net paedophiles
News The Act was amended in January to increase the sentence for possession of illegal Internet content from six months to five years, while the penalty for distributing pornographic or paedophile content rose from three years to ten years.
[March 27, 2001, 10:50]
ISPs win crucial legal protections
News But one key issue has still not been satisfactorily resolved, says the ISP Association (ISPA): how ISPs should remove content once they have been warned that it may be illegal under criminal law or actionable under civil law such as that of libel...
[August 14, 2002, 10:48]
German police sue eDonkey 'criminals'
Talkback I'm not saying these people are innocent, but the statistics being given out so far are very airy-fair, while they point to illegal music (or other illegal content), there are no specific figures on how much of the traced content was illegal.
[May 25, 2006, 7:43]
ISPs caught up in Internet babies furore
News As part of this push health minister John Hutton has written to ISPs stating that if someone informs them about illegal adoption adverts they must take the content down. Gilbert calls for clarification on who should be allowed to tell ISPs to take...
[January 22, 2001, 14:51]
