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  • Court overturns fake child porn act

    The day after former Infoseek executive Patrick Naughton was jailed for possession of child pornography, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the a portion of the Child Pornography Prevention Act.

  • E3: Parody games pushing the limit?

    The game "Panty Raider" sounds more like a bad fraternity prank than a sane attempt to market a game for computers, but publisher Simon & Schuster Interactive is very serious when it comes to the offering's low humor.

  • Crushing the Web's dark forces

    Keeping clandestine forces at bay is no mean feat. In this special report, ZDNet Australia features five leading security experts -- from eBay to Ukraine's Computer Crime Research Center -- who pursue cyber criminals for a living.

  • Big bucks in Net names for rent

    Nick Koustas' father has been in the real estate business for years, so it's only natural that he would follow in his footsteps--but with a dot-com twist.

  • Court drops hammer on 'Wonderland' child-porn

    Seven Britons have been sentenced for their participation in the world's largest Internet child pornography ring -dubbed the "Wonderland Club"- amid criticism of the court's leniency.

  • The last pixel show

    How Digital Entertainment Network soared on the passion of its young true believers and fell into the squalor of sexual abuse charges, bankruptcy, and an FBI investigation. A tale in Internet time

  • Top 15 Australian E-commerce Web Sites

    Are you finding it difficult to buy anything online here in Australia? It seems US sites have got a finger on the pulse of what customers want, but locally that attention to detail is somewhat lacking. Or is it? We identify the top Australian e-commerce sites in this comprehensive examination of online buying.

  • The unusual suspects

    Viruses were supposed to be one of the year's big stories, but the wizards behind the infectious code are not the hacker thugs you'd expect. Meet the creators of Melissa and the Love bug, and the man who gets paid to stop them.

  • Taming the Web

    Not long ago, civil libertarians looked to cyberspace as the utopia of ultimate freedom, beyond the reach of restrictive technologies and government regulators.Today, that dream may be fading with the hyper-speed of Internet time.

  • The Year 2000 in review

    The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.

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