Clips May 21, 2002

[Lillie Coney <lillie.coney@xxxxxxx>]

Clips May 21, 2002

ARTICLES

Late fine proposed for AT&T Wireless
Big bucks stall new bill on privacy
Copyright Trial Set for Russian
Low-Tech Pen Foils CD Copy-Protection Device
Security Holes in Web Privacy Program
Beware the Internet Death Penalty  Study
Big-City Broadband Growing at High-Speed
Webcast Royalty Plan Rejected
No Match for Digital Age
Suspect Helps Police Find Body of Girl He Met on Internet
Certification deadline draws near
NMCI apps placed on fast track
CIOs' input needed
Supreme Court will rule on online registry of sex offenders
Internet can be lifeline for busy moms
ATTACK OF THE MOVIE CLONES
Late changes to a security R&D bill call for NIST cybersecurity office
Bounty offered to software bug hunters
Senate committee sets up 'emergency technology guard'
Senate panel creates cybersecurity programs, standards
White House works on data management privacy principles
Teachers claim Web sites offer students easy cheating chance
Console makers believe future of gaming is online
Library of Congress puts American history on the Web
Handheld Delivers the 411 on DNA
Tagging Books to Prevent Theft



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Seattle Times
Late fine proposed for AT&T Wireless
By Seattle Times staff and news services

WASHINGTON  AT&T Wireless Services faces a $2.2 million penalty for failing 
to install equipment needed to pinpoint locations of customers' emergency 
calls.

The Federal Communications Commission yesterday proposed the fine because 
the Redmond company missed an October deadline to upgrade part of its 
network so that police can find callers who dial 911. AT&T Wireless also 
didn't sell the type of handsets needed for the upgrade, the agency said.

The FCC granted several waivers to many carriers, giving them more time to 
meet deadlines. AT&T Wireless, the nation's third-largest mobile-phone 
carrier, received a partial waiver granting more time for location-accuracy 
requirements.

But AT&T Wireless did not meet the Oct. 1 deadline to start selling the 
upgraded handsets, the FCC said, and it never requested a waiver of that 
requirement, telling the agency one was not needed.

Twenty-five percent of all new activated handsets were to be able to 
provide location information by the end of last year. All new activated 
handsets are to have that capability by the end of 2002.

An AT&T spokeswoman said that the company needed to review the FCC's 
proposed fine but that it disagreed with the accusations and blamed delays 
on vendors.

Regulatory documents revealed the vendors included Nokia and Ericsson as 
well as Lucent Technologies.

"Compliance with the FCC's ... mandate is not only technically complex, but 
it's also made challenging by circumstances beyond our control," said 
Rochelle Cohen, the AT&T Wireless spokeswoman.

Another AT&T Wireless representative specifically pointed the finger at 
handset manufacturers. "We hoped to have handsets that were compatible and 
some of (the vendors) didn't deliver," said spokesman Mark Siegel.

AT&T Wireless has 30 days to contest the proposed fine, seek a reduction or 
cancellation, or pay it.

"We strongly think the fine being proposed is way out of proportion," said 
Siegel.

The FCC said its investigation was continuing into whether the company 
misrepresented information in its waiver request filed with the agency.

Shares of AT&T Wireless closed down 42 cents, or 5.35 percent, to $7.43 
yesterday.

Material from Bloomberg News and Seattle Times business reporter Nancy 
Gohring is included in this report.
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Big bucks stall new bill on privacy
Second attempt to bolster consumer rights looks doomed
Lynda Gledhill, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau
Tuesday, May 21, 2002
©2002 San Francisco Chronicle

URL: 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/05/21/MN24313.DTL


Sacramento -- After spending millions of dollars in campaign donations and 
lobbying expenses, banks and insurance companies appear for a second time 
to have killed legislation designed to protect consumers' financial privacy.

The second attempt at increasing consumers' privacy, a compromise measure 
carried by Assemblyman Joe Nation, D-San Rafael, is stalled in an Assembly 
committee, where it appears to have little hope of winning enough votes to 
move forward.

Businesses, banks and insurance companies that oppose strengthening privacy 
rights in California have donated more than $5 million to state politicians 
during an 18-month period.

About $2.6 million went to Assembly members and $1.3 million to state 
senators. Gov. Gray Davis received more than $880,000.

California became the primary battleground between consumer groups and 
corporate interests after the passage of a 1999 federal financial privacy 
bill.

That law allowed banks to own insurance companies and vice versa.

As part of the law, the companies were required to send consumers an annual 
privacy statement saying how their personal information, such as bank 
accounts and credit histories, are being shared. Many of those forms were 
filled with complicated legal jargon, prompting consumer groups to try to 
get states to pass more consumer-friendly policies.


BUSINESS GROUPS FIGHT BILLS
Some California lawmakers moved to strengthen privacy rights, while 
financial institutions waged an all-out effort to block further 
restrictions on the sale of financial records.

"This one seems to have engaged the whole business community," said Lenny 
Goldberg, a longtime activist for consumer groups. "Nationally, California 
has become ground zero for stopping legislation by the financial industry."

The defeat of a consumer-friendly bill by Sen. Jackie Speier, D- 
Hillsborough, was the No. 1 priority of business groups during the last 
legislative session. Those same powerful interest groups now oppose 
Nation's follow-up compromise measure languishing in the Assembly Judiciary 
Committee.

Speier's bill, which was opposed by Davis, would have prohibited insurance 
companies and banks from selling or trading private information without 
first getting a consumer's permission.

Nation, who did not vote on Speier's bill, attempted this year to craft 
compromise legislation that would garner the support of business-friendly 
Democrats and Davis.

Under Nation's bill, addresses and phone numbers could be traded or sold 
without permission, but unlike in federal law, a customer could forbid the 
trade in writing. So-called sensitive information such as bank balances and 
loan amounts would be protected at a higher level than federal law under 
Nation's bill.

Nation, however, says he doesn't believe the bill will win enough votes to 
emerge from the Judiciary Committee.


BIG CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS
While a political furor has erupted over a $25,000 contribution by Oracle 
Corp. to Davis after the software company signed a $95 million contract 
with the state, the much larger contributions by banks and insurance 
companies were made with scant public scrutiny.

Assembly members who voted "no" on Speier's bill last year received an 
average of $27,944, according to an analysis of contributions by Common 
Cause. The average contribution to Assembly members who voted "yes" was 
$17,364.

Assembly members who refused to vote on Speier's bill last year received an 
average of $26,204, from financial groups. That number excludes Assemblyman 
Tom Calderon, D-Montebello, who was running for insurance commissioner and 
received more than $375,000 from insurance companies.

"I think this is an example of where money does have an impact," said Jim 
Knox, executive director of Common Cause. "By every analysis, this bill was 
one that was important to consumers and in the interest of the general 
public. But it got stymied on the Assembly floor."

Money was not the only influence that was used. During debate on Speier's 
bill, lobbyists crowded Capitol hallways to try to bring lawmakers to their 
side.

Financial groups, insurance companies and other interested parties paid 
nearly $2 million to lobbyists during the 18 months the bill was pending. 
Reports filed with the secretary of state do not break down how much money 
was spent on a particular bill.

Mark Lowe, a spokesman for the California Credit Union League, said the 
intense lobbying effort shows that financial contributions are not what 
lawmakers base their decisions on.

"If it were the money calling the shots, then why was there the need to 
lobby against it at the end?" he said.


DAVIS' OPPOSITION A FACTOR
Speier said she does not know if campaign contributions played a part in 
the bill's defeat, but she said Davis' opposition probably influenced some 
members.

Nation's bill is opposed by business interests and by consumer groups, 
which see the latest proposal as being a weak law that doesn't go far 
enough to protect consumers. Nation and Speier said they hope to work 
together on a measure.

"I think it is incumbent on the Legislature to put a bill on the governor's 
desk," Speier said.

Davis said last year that he would like to see reasonable privacy 
legislation, and his spokesman said the administration is disappointed that 
a compromise could not be reached.

Both politicians and lobbyists insist that campaign contributions do not 
influence policy.

"We make contributions to legislators consistently," Lowe said. "We have 
for a number of years, and we will continue to do so into the foreseeable 
future. It doesn't have to do with any particular legislation."

But Knox said that is exactly how lobbyists gain influence.

"This type of bill is the reason why interest groups contribute year in and 
year out," he said. "So when something comes up, they have already made the 
investment and can call in the chips."

Nation, who received more than $53,000 from interest groups opposed to 
Speier's bill through last September, said he does not let money influence 
his decisions.

"If the accusations were true, I would have financial institutions' support 
for my bill, but the opposite is true," he said. Nation also argued that he 
spent more time meeting with consumer groups than with business entities.

Shelley Curran, the advocate working on the bill for Consumers Union, said 
it is true that she had access to Nation, but said "in the end he didn't do 
what we wanted."

E-mail Lynda Gledhill at lgledhill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Associated Press
Copyright Trial Set for Russian
Mon May 20,11:29 PM ET

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - The first criminal trial under the Digital 
Millennium Copyright Act (news - web sites) will begin Aug. 26, a federal 
judge decided Monday.

ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. of Moscow could be fined $500,000 if convicted of 
selling a program that let users circumvent copyright protections on 
electronic-book software made by Adobe Systems Inc.

Such programs are legal in Russia but banned under the 1998 Digital 
Millennium Copyright Act. Attorneys for the company failed this month to 
convince a judge that the law is too broad, vague and unconstitutional.

The case originally involved ElcomSoft programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, who was 
arrested after speaking at a hacker convention in Las Vegas last July. But 
prosecutors agreed in December to drop charges against him after the 
company's case is resolved.

The case is U.S. v. ElcomSoft and Dmitry Sklyarov, CR-01-20138RMW.
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Reuters
Low-Tech Pen Foils CD Copy-Protection Device

LONDON -- Technology buffs have cracked music publishing giant Sony Music 
Entertainment Inc.'s elaborate disc copy-protection technology with a 
decidedly low-tech method: scribbling around the rim of a disc with a 
felt-tip marker.

Internet newsgroups have been circulating news of the discovery for a week, 
and users have pilloried Sony for deploying "high-tech" copy protection 
that can be defeated by paying a visit to a stationery store.

"I wonder what type of copy protection will come next?" one posting on 
Alt.music.prince read. "Maybe they'll ban markers." Sony did not return 
calls seeking comment.

Major music labels, including Sony and Universal Music, have begun selling 
the "copy-proof" discs as a means of tackling the rampant spread of music 
piracy, which they claim is eating into sales.

The technology, Key2Audio, aims to prevent consumers from copying, or 
"burning," music onto recordable CDs or onto their computer hard drives, 
which enables the music to be shared with other users over file-sharing 
Internet services such as Kazaa and Morpheus MusicCity.

Sony's proprietary technology, deployed on many recent releases, works by 
adding a track to the copy-protected disc that contains bogus data.

Because computer hard drives are programmed to read data files first, the 
computer will continually try to play the bogus track first. It never gets 
to play the music tracks elsewhere on the disc.

The result is that the copy-protected disc will play on standard CD players 
but not on computer CD-ROM drives, some portable devices and even some car 
stereo systems.

Internet postings claim that tape or even a sticky note also can be used to 
cover the security track.

And there are suggestions that copy-protection schemes used by other music 
labels can be circumvented in a similar way.
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Associated Press
Security Holes in Web Privacy Program
Tue May 21, 3:32 AM ET
By D. IAN HOPPER, AP Technology Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - A popular Internet privacy service that lets Web surfers 
visit sites anonymously has fixed several serious flaws, and now the 
service's founder is offering a reward to the finder of the bugs.


Bennett Haselton, an Internet filtering activist who runs the Peacefire Web 
site, found the problems with Anonymizer.com, a five-year-old service that 
shields users from tracking by Web sites and their Internet providers.

Haselton "came up with a new way of exploiting (Web) standards," Anonymizer 
president Lance Cottrell explained Monday. "They're pretty subtle."

Many major commercial sites cringe when security researchers find a hole. 
But Anonymizer actually encourages it through a "bug bounty."

Haselton's reward: three free years of the Anonymizer service, which costs 
$50 a year. Cottrell said the offer stands for anyone else who can find 
security holes in the service.

"We are always actively soliciting people to attack it," Cottrell said. 
"Trying to hide and keeping your head down is always the wrong answer."

Ordinarily, Web sites collect lots of information about visitors, including 
the Internet address that can lead to a visitor's geographic location, as 
well as shopping habits and previous Web travels.

Anonymizer keeps the visitor's information secret by standing between the 
customer's Web browser and the desired Web site.

Customers can use Anonymizer through the company's Web site or with a 
downloadable program. The service allows Web users to keep personal 
information away from marketing sites, or to keep their bosses from seeing 
their Web surfing at work.

For example, a person could use Anonymizer's service to visit the FBI (news 
- web sites)'s tip site and offer information truly anonymously.

The methods Haselton developed, though, could be used on a Web site to 
determine where the visitor is really coming from and negate the 
effectiveness of Anonymizer.

Independent researchers who find security holes frequently get a cold 
reception from Web sites. Internet companies complain that the researchers 
are more interested in notoriety  the rush to release their find  than 
customer safety.

The battle between the two sides has prompted several security firms, along 
with Microsoft Corp., to advocate limited disclosure of security holes. 
This has brought even more controversy among security experts.

Cottrell said his company doesn't know of any Web sites that used 
Haselton's methods to defeat the privacy program.

"Our customers are very open with us," Cottrell said. "I'm sure we would 
have heard about it."
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Newsbytes
Beware the Internet Death Penalty  Study

Many businesses are losing customers because of inadequate Web sites - and 
most don't even realize potential customers are gone before it is too late. 
Once these customers are gone, says a new study, they don't come back.
That is the message from Enterpulse, an e-business services firm based in 
Atlanta. The company surveyed 301 "heavy" Web users - defined as people who 
used the Internet both at home and at work at least once a day.

Sixty-six percent of respondents said they rarely or never return to a Web 
site where they have a bad experience.

"This finding, which we called the 'Internet death penalty,' was a huge 
surprise," Michael Reene, the chairman and CEO of Enterpulse today told 
Newsbytes.

Reene said the company felt it had identified the primary needs of sites 
and wanted to find the priority that people placed on characteristics such 
as ease of use, being up-to-date and simple navigation.

"We thought there would be a high tolerance for mediocre sites," he said. 
"The fact that such a high percentage of people would not return is shocking."

"A business owner cannot count those people who are going away and never 
coming back," he added.

Reene, who served as general manager of IBM's global telecommunications 
business before taking over the helm of Enterpulse in 1999, said 99 percent 
of the survey's respondents said a site that "works well" is very 
important. However, 43 percent said they were disappointed with site 
performance.

"We were surprised at that figure, also," he said.

The study subjects were not directed to view designated sites, said Reene. 
Instead, they simply visited the sites they use in their daily lives.

What can companies do? Reene suggested concentrating on three areas.

First, he said, it is important to meet customers' expectations for their 
Internet experience. "The Web is one way people meet you, so take it very 
seriously," he said.

Second, companies should understand their Web presence faces customers, and 
therefore sales and marketing should be in charge of the Web site, not IT 
or human resources, he said.

"Finally, companies should understand and embrace the minimum of 
expectations," Reene said. "Besides easy navigation and use, people want 
and expect a site to load quickly, to be visually appealing, and to have 
customization and personalization."

Other Web site features Reene suggests includes interactive tools - such as 
an interest rate planner for a tax site, or a recommender for book sites.

According to Reene, one-to-one marketing and deep personalization are not 
the exception any more.

"The Web is maturing as a customer channel, and customers are maturing to 
the Web faster than companies are ready," he said.

"Businesses need to adjust to the challenge, and if they don't, they are 
turning away a large group of potential customers and they'll never know 
they are turning them away."

Enterpulse is at http://www.enterpulse.com .

Reported by Newsbytes.com, http://www.newsbytes.com .

(20020520/Press contact: Stephen Brown for Enterpulse, 404-879-9262 /WIRES 
ONLINE, BUSINESS/WEBGLOBE/PHOTO)
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Newsbytes
Big-City Broadband Growing at High-Speed

The fast pace of big-city life shows up in urbanites' movement toward 
high-speed Internet access at home, Nielsen//NetRatings said today.
Sixty percent of the 20 largest cities in the U.S. show at-home broadband 
population growth of more than 50 percent for the year ending April 30, 
according to the audience-measurement service.

Half of those cities saw the high-speed subscriber count more than double, 
and broadband growth in one city - Hartford, Conn. - nearly quadrupled, 
Nielsen reported.

"While some barriers exist to broadband expansion such as increasing costs, 
there is healthy room for additional growth and adoption of broadband," 
NetRatings analyst T.S. Kelly said in a news release.

Overall, 25.2 million home users last month surfed the Internet by cable 
modem, DSL (digital subscriber line), ISDN (integrated services digital 
network) or LAN (local area network) compared to 15.9 million April 2001, a 
58 percent rise.

The high-speed set in the nation's No. 1 population center, New York, 
jumped 71 percent to nearly 2.8 million, while Los Angeles grew faster - 88 
percent to 1.8 million. Boston's growth was 48 percent, tech-rich San 
Francisco showed an increase of just 21 percent while Philadelphia, the 
nation's fifth-largest city, saw its broadband population jump by just shy 
of 70 percent.

Hartford, Conn., recorded growth of 198 percent, Baltimore's high-speed 
count jumped 174 percent, the Washington, D.C., broadband population rose 
153 percent, Orlando, Fla. recorded a 183-percent jump and Sacramento, 
Calif., gained nearly 118 percent.

Growth in Chicago was just under 13 percent, in Dallas it was 12 Percent. 
Detroit was the only top 20 city showing single-digit broadband growth with 
8 percent.

Reported by Newsbytes.com, http://www.newsbytes.com
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Washington Post
Webcast Royalty Plan Rejected
By Kevin Featherly - Newsbytes
Tuesday, May 21, 2002; 12:20 PM

Librarian of Congress James Billington today rejected a proposal that would 
force Internet radio stations to compensate musicians and labels for the 
songs they broadcast, a plan that many Webcasters said would drive them out 
of business.

At issue was a proposal by the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP), 
which recommended charging Webcasters just over one-tenth of 1 cent for 
every song signal streamed from online-only radio stations.

Billington was charged by Congress with establishing the royalties under 
terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

A Copyright Office spokeswoman said there is no indication of which way 
Billington plans to ratchet the royalties, though he must issue a decision 
by June 20. The Copyright Office is a unit of the Library of Congress.

Webcasters and digital media proponents welcomed the rejection.

"I'm confident that the solution to this is going to be a mutually 
beneficial agreement worked out between the record companies and stations 
like mine," said William Goldsmith, owner of the online-only station 
Radioparadise.com. "(The recording industry is) already looking like a 
bunch of greedy idiots. And they don't like that."

"Today's decision by the librarian offers hope that the final royalty will 
be more in line with marketplace economics than was the arbitrators' 
proposal," said Jonathan Potter, executive director of the Digital Media 
Association.

Webcasters have been pushing for a percentage-of-revenue model that they 
say they could afford. But the music industry, represented by the Recording 
Industry Association of America (RIAA), argues that Webcasters are blowing 
smoke.

The RIAA has sought even higher royalty rates than those recommended by the 
arbitration panel.

The industry group this morning held out for a favorable decision, saying 
that Billington's options remain open.

"The librarian has rejected the arbitration panel's determination, but we 
do not know why or what decision the librarian will ultimately make based 
on the evidence presented," RIAA President Cary Sherman said in a 
statement. "Since both sides appealed the panel's determination, anything 
is possible."

Hard Lobbying

Webcasters descended on Washington D.C. during the past two weeks to lobby 
for favorable Webcast royalty terms, arguing that the pay-per-stream 
royalty model would bust their small banks.

Rather than paying royalties on each listener for each recording played  an 
artist-and-label compensation scheme that would be unique in broadcasting 
history  Webcasters seek an alternate plan that would require them to pay 
about 3 percent of their gross annual revenue to cover recording royalties.

Currently, terrestrial broadcasters do not pay to compensate artists. 
Traditional radio stations pay a percentage of their revenues  usually 
about 3 percent  to compensate publishers and composers.

Historically, radio stations have avoided paying recording royalties by 
selling lawmakers on the idea that airplay equals free promotion and thus 
sales, more than compensating labels and artists.

However, the recording industry argued that Webcasting songs on the 
Internet is not a form of promotion, rather a drain on music industry sales.

The pot began to boil on the issue in February when the U.S. Copyright 
Office-appointed Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP) recommended 
setting a royalty rate of $.0014 for each song signal streamed to each 
online-only radio station listener. Many smaller Webcasters complained the 
rate was far too high, and would result in bankruptcy for their 
revenue-hungry businesses.

The RIAA initially countered Webcasters' 3-percent-of-revenue idea with a 
proposal that they pay about 15 percent of gross revenues. The sides failed 
to reach a compromise. Under terms of the DMCA, the issue went into 
arbitration.

The CARP panel rejected the percentage-of-revenue plan, substituting a 
controversial pay-per-listen plan that has drawn fire from all sides.

Philip Corwin, a Washington, D.C., digital music lobbyist whose clients 
include the owners of the Kazaa and Scour Exchange peer-to-peer networks, 
said today that he anticipated the Copyright Office would back away from 
the CARP ruling.

"There will be some movement in the direction of the Webcasters," Corwin 
said. "In particular, they might adopt an alternative with a 
percentage-of-revenue model with some minimum amount for small Webcasters."

Radioparadise's Goldsmith expressed similar sentiments.

"I'm not too surprised," Goldsmith said. "There's been so much thrown 
around in various forums  in front of Congress and the press and 
whatnot  to show that this is clearly not going to work for anyone. There's 
not even one organization out there that can survive under (the CARP) model."

Senators React

The Senate Judiciary Committee on May 15 heard an overview of the 
Webcasting industry and mulled possible changes to the Digital Millennium 
Copyright Act that established the arbitration process resulting in the 
CARP proposal.

Noting that everyone involved has appealed the plan, Judiciary Committee 
Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) suggested that the parties should consider 
starting over their negotiations.

"Why can't everyone  Congress and artists and labels and Webcasters 
alike  take the CARP as a genuine learning experience, and sit down to 
determine what is the next best step?" Leahy asked. "If the parties can 
avoid more expense and time and reach a negotiated outcome more 
satisfactory to all participants, that would surely be preferable to 
rampant dissatisfaction."

Lobbyist and attorney Corwin said he would be surprised if the matter was 
sent back to arbitration.

"There's not going to be any new information developed on the record, 
what's the point in making everyone spend all that money on lawyers and all 
that time and everything again?" he said.
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Washington Post
Internet's Ruling Body Plans Vote On Address Resale Plan


By David McGuire
Washtech.com Staff Writer
Monday, May 20, 2002; 4:55 PM


Internet addressing authorities will vote next month on a proposal to 
organize the feeding frenzy surrounding expiring "dot-com" names.

The proposal, offered earlier this year by Internet addressing giant 
VeriSign Inc., would create an Internet address "Wait Listing Service" 
(WLS) that electronic speculators would use to re-register attractive 
dot-com addresses as they expire.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the group 
that manages the Internet's Domain Name System, said it would likely vote 
on the proposal at its June meeting in Bucharest, Romania.

Under the proposal, customers would go through their Internet registrars 
(the retail sellers of dot-com names) to buy WLS subscriptions for given 
names. VeriSign, which operates the dot-com registry and acts as the global 
wholesaler of dot-com names, would charge a wholesale rate for each 
subscription sold by registrars.

"It's really about bringing order to the chaos and giving individuals and 
small businesses a chance to get the domain names they want," VeriSign 
spokeswoman Cheryl Regan said today. "The current system really favors the 
speculative market."

With vast numbers of dot-com names expiring every month as domain name 
holders decline to renew contracts, many address sellers - including 
VeriSign - have complained that electronic speculators are flooding their 
servers in an attempt to snap up attractive addresses the moment they go 
back on the market.

The wait-listing proposal is not a "panacea" for registrars to protect 
their systems from prowling speculators, but it will impart some order to 
the distribution of lapsing domain names, Regan said.

But not all Internet registrars have applauded the VeriSign proposal.

While VeriSign's proposed pricing for the wait-listing service makes it an 
almost certain boon for VeriSign, it could leave retail address sellers 
struggling to turn a profit, said Peter Girard, general manager of 
Afternic, the after-market arm of Register.com.

"The price is still our major concern," Girard said.

Although VeriSign modified the wait-listing service price once, the 
proposed wholesale price of a WLS subscription remains high for an untested 
product, Girard said.

Under the first VeriSign proposal, registrars would have paid $40 for each 
WLS entry that their customers submitted. The first customer to submit a 
WLS entry for a given name would get first crack at reregistering that name 
when it expired.

The most recent iteration of the VeriSign proposal drops the wholesale cost 
from $40 to $35. The proposal also includes registrar rebates that could 
further reduce the per-subscription price to $24.

If registrars can sell WLS subscriptions at $100 a pop, that wholesale 
price may be acceptable, but no research has been done to determine how 
much consumers will be willing to pay for lapsing names, Girard said.

Still, Girard did not say that Register.com or Afternic planned to openly 
oppose the wait-listing service at the Bucharest meeting next month.

ICANN will not vote on whether to permanently establish the WLS, rather it 
will vote on whether to approve the program as a 12-month pilot.
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Los Angeles Times
No Match for Digital Age
Not even 'The Eminem Show' is exempt from piracy
By JON HEALEY and CHUCK PHILIPS
TIMES STAFF WRITERS

Despite extraordinary efforts to keep it under wraps, the eagerly awaited 
new CD from platinum-selling rapper Eminem met the same fate as every other 
recent release from a major artist: It went out for free on the Internet 
long before fans could buy it in stores.

"The Eminem Show" may still prove to be the year's biggest-selling record, 
with well more than 1 million copies expected to be sold in its first week 
alone. Yet its vulnerability to pirates demonstrates vividly how 
ill-prepared the music industry is for a new digital era.

Executives at Vivendi Universal, the global media conglomerate that 
distributes Eminem's records, held an emergency meeting Monday to discuss 
what further steps to take to safeguard sales. The company already had 
taken the unusual step of moving up the release date of "The Eminem Show" 
by more than a week, to today. One problem for Vivendi's Universal Music 
Group, and for every other record company, is that their established 
techniques for developing and promoting artists are threatened by the 
phenomenal growth of networks that let consumers download music for free.

Record companies typically incur millions of dollars in costs setting up 
superstar releases like "The Eminem Show" at radio and retail outlets. 
Labels execute lengthy global marketing campaigns incorporating several 
music videos and radio singles staggered over a two-year period with the 
aim of stimulating continued sales.

Such industry-standard campaigns, built upon gradual exposure to songs, are 
likely to become obsolete in a world where consumers can sample every track 
before a recording is even put up for sale.

"There are more than 3 billion downloads a month around the world," said 
Interscope Group head Jimmy Iovine, whose Vivendi Universal company 
released the new Eminem CD. "The problem the industry is facing right now 
is a level of piracy never seen before, whether its selling burned CDs in 
school or on the corner. This is affecting not only the record labels and 
artists, but anyone who has an interest in earning a living through music."

Iovine said piracy of Eminem's new CD shines a light on a problem that is 
damaging the careers of other lesser-known acts every day.

Because "The Eminem Show" is so widely anticipated, many fans are likely to 
purchase the CD even after they download it. Where piracy really hurts, 
Iovine said, is that it is eroding the potential fan base of new acts with 
one or two hits under their belt.

Iovine and other executives say fans frequently download only the best 
songs of a developing artist and skip buying the record. This undercuts not 
only sales for the company, but the artist's ability to record a second or 
third album.

But piracy can damage blockbusters too. Even if "The Eminem Show" sells 
more than a million CDs during its debut week, it is impossible to 
determine how many sales will be lost immediately as a result of digital 
pilfering--or even over the next year.

Because the profits from top-selling albums subsidize the 85% or more of 
the acts that don't break even, any drop in sales for the likes of Eminem 
undermines the support for less heralded artists.

"The Eminem Show" is expected to break the 1 million mark faster than any 
record since last summer. Over the last year and a half, as file-sharing 
services reached the mass market, only one record has sold that many copies 
in its first week: 'N Sync's "Celebrity," which was released in July.

With Eminem's last record selling 8.7 million copies, his label, Interscope 
took great pains to keep the songs from hitting the Net before the CD was 
released. No copies of the CD were sent to reviewers, who had to listen to 
the songs in Interscope's offices instead of on their own stereos.

Interscope flooded the file-sharing networks with bogus copies of the songs 
that played the same short segments over and over. Only after downloading 
would users realize they'd been had.

Nevertheless, the new CD hit the Internet in its entirety almost a month 
ago, and has been trickling down to the masses of file-sharing consumers 
ever since. The bogus files are still plentiful on the Net, but they're 
gradually giving way to the real thing. Meanwhile, legitimate online 
services--including Universal's own Pressplay--can't make the new Eminem 
songs available to paying customers.

The head of the Recording Industry Assn. of America's anti-piracy efforts, 
Frank Creighton, argues that the piracy problem can be minimized if the 
labels work closely with the RIAA and its international counterparts, as 
Eminem's label has done. The RIAA has seized more than 100,000 pirated 
discs over the last two weeks from two dozen outlets, Creighton said, but 
less than 2,000 of them were "The Eminem Show"--a much smaller percentage 
than is typical for a major release.

Still, the relentlessness of piracy has the major labels contemplating more 
aggressive tactics, including releasing albums on discs with electronic 
locks that deter digital copying. They've also joined the Hollywood studios 
in lobbying for a federal law that would require computer and 
consumer-electronics manufacturers to alter their designs to combat piracy.

In addition, executives at several labels are kicking around the idea of 
suing some universities, companies and individuals that operate computer 
servers that allow storage of stolen songs that can be accessed by 
file-sharing services.

Other interest groups, including representatives of a leading file-sharing 
network and a tech-industry trade association, want to tax an array of 
hardware, software and services to compensate copyright holders for the 
rampant downloading. That approach "will be a very seriously debated 
counterpoint for the whole Hollywood agenda," predicted Philip S. Corwin, a 
lobbyist for one of the file-sharing networks, Kazaa.

Global music sales declined to $32 billion last year, a 16% drop from the 
year before. While some in the music industry blame the overall economy and 
a shortage of high-quality releases, many label executives put the blame 
squarely on Internet piracy.

The RIAA has been battling piracy for more than 30 years, with most of that 
time spent on counterfeit products. Last year it seized nearly 3 million 
counterfeit or pirated discs, a 66% increase over the previous year.

On the Net, unauthorized digital copies of songs and CDs spread much faster 
and far more broadly than counterfeit discs. Although Internet piracy has 
been around longer than the World Wide Web, unauthorized copying has 
exploded in the last two years as more consumers connected to the Net at 
high speed and easy-to-use file-sharing services hit the market.

"What happened with the Eminem release can have a real impact on a 
company's ability to do business," said Sony Music Entertainment Chairman 
Thomas D. Mottola. "In instances where music is released on the Internet in 
unfinished form--which happened recently with [Sony rock act] System of the 
Down--artistic expression and sales can both be compromised.

"So it's not just a matter of economics, it's also a matter of protecting 
the creative process itself," Mottola added. "There is no doubt that 
technology is going to have to be part of the industry's response to 
piracy, but it's important to keep in mind that attitudes toward piracy are 
just as big an issue."

Champions of online music sharing often downplay the ethical and legal 
ramifications of consumers building huge collections of music without 
paying. Accusing music corporations of cheating artists and gouging 
consumers to sustain profits, they say downloading songs is a legal 
exercise of consumer rights that actually promotes sales.

Consumer advocates argue that it's perfectly legal for consumers to make 
digital copies of the CDs they buy and to record songs from their 
collection on custom CDs for personal use. And stopping consumers from 
making easy digital copies won't make much of a dent in piracy because 
there are other ways to "rip" songs from a disc, said Eric Garland, chief 
executive of BigChampagne, a company that monitors file-sharing networks.

"For most of us here on the ground, downloading the music is simply an 
expression of demand, of raw consumer demand, of a desire to hear it and 
have it," Garland said. "We create a demand like that and we expect people 
to behave like good little consumers and wait until the big day" of the 
official release.
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New York Times
Suspect Helps Police Find Body of Girl He Met on Internet

DANBURY, Conn., May 20 (AP)  Investigators found the body of a 13-year-old 
Danbury girl in Greenwich early today after a man she met over the Internet 
told them where to look, the police said.

The United States attorney, John A. Danaher III, said the man, identified 
as Saul Dos Reis, 25, was arrested on a federal charge of using an 
interstate device  the Internet  to entice a child into sexual activity.

Other charges were not immediately filed. But Mr. Danaher said that Mr. Dos 
Reis, who was arraigned on the Internet charge in federal court Monday 
morning, had confessed to the killing.

Mr. Danaher initially said the admission came in open court, but the 
Justice Department later clarified the statement, saying that Mr. Dos Reis 
had confessed to investigators.

"There are further steps to be taken in this investigation," Mr. Danaher 
said. "But we're confident that the arrest was very appropriate in this case."

The body of the girl, Christina Long, was found in a remote area of 
Greenwich early today using information provided by Mr. Dos Reis, officials 
said. She was last seen Friday at the Danbury Fair Mall.

An autopsy showed that the girl had been strangled, officials said.

Mr. Dos Reis was ordered held without bond. A hearing to argue the bond was 
scheduled for Friday in federal court in Bridgeport, said Harold 
Pickerstein, Mr. Dos Reis's lawyer.

Mr. Pickerstein would not comment on the allegations, but said he expected 
Mr. Dos Reis to plead not guilty to all charges. He criticized Mr. Danaher 
for his comments about the confession, calling them inappropriate.

"They probably would have been better off if they kept their mouths shut," 
Mr. Pickerstein said. "It's inappropriate, in my opinion, to discuss 
evidence in a case in which there has not even been a charge or an indictment."
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Federal Computer News
Certification deadline draws near

In an effort to improve the security of the commercial software it buys, 
the Defense Department beginning in July will prohibit the military 
services from purchasing information assurance products that have not met a 
third-party security evaluation.

Under the rule, DOD will not buy commercial software that has not been 
certified by the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP), a group 
formed by the National Security Agency and the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology. The initiative is essential as DOD increasingly 
uses commercial software for mission-critical functions, said Eustace King, 
the technology team leader for the Defense-wide Information Assurance 
Program, speaking May 14 during a presentation at the Navy's Connecting 
Technology conference in Virginia Beach, Va.

But the effort is even more critical as DOD moves toward 
network-centricity, where data is stored on networks and is available to 
those who need it, King said.

The DOD policy has received little attention despite the broad 
ramifications it could have for information technology buys.

It is not directed just at information assurance products, such as 
firewalls or intrusion-detection systems, but also at "information 
assurance-enabled products" such as Web browsers, operating systems and 
databases.

The DOD policy requires that all systems be assessed on how mission- 
critical the data is. That data will then determine the commensurate level 
of security robustness  high, medium or basic, King said.

Under the National Information Assurance Acquisition Policy, the military 
services have been giving preference to information assurance products 
certified by NIAP, but beginning in July that certification will be 
required, King said.

Products bought before July will be exempt from the policy, King said, 
although the policy does require any significant upgrades to meet the 
certification requirement.

Capt. Sheila McCoy, a member of the Navy Department chief information 
officer's information assurance team, said the hope is that vendors will 
see the certification as an opportunity to obtain a competitive advantage.

Mary Ann Davidson, chief security officer for Oracle Corp., said that 
despite nearly a decade of similar requirements, many software vendors have 
avoided the guidelines and sought waivers instead. DOD must make security a 
top priority in buying decisions because it is difficult to add it on later 
if security is not built into a product from the start, she said.

Oracle has made security a critical part of its software development 
process, Davidson said. The company last week was awarded its 15th NIAP 
certificate for its Oracle Label Security product, she said. The product 
enables an organization to control access to shared data.

NSA has published the requirements for several product categories, 
including firewalls and operating systems. Other requirements are in the 
works, including those for Web security, intrusion-detection systems, 
virtual private networks and biometrics.

NIAP has certified about two dozen products, and others are in process, 
King said.

Davidson said the process can be expensive and time-consuming  Oracle 
spends as much as $1 million to get a product certified. But the 
certification process has also helped the company avoid the future costs of 
applying patches to products, she said.
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Federal Computer Week
NMCI apps placed on fast track

The Navy is developing a new process designed to speed up the way commands 
assess the tens of thousands of legacy applications before they become part 
of the Navy Marine Corps Intranet.

Migrating legacy systems has been the largest sticking point for the $6.9 
billion initiative to create a single enterprise network across the Navy's 
shore-based sites. The move to NMCI has taken longer than anticipated due 
primarily to the enormous number of legacy systems in place that must be 
reviewed.

Under the new policy, which is expected soon, the Navy will assess the 
easily resolved applications immediately and isolate the systems that will 
take more time to review on a separate "kiosk system." That way, legacy 
application questions do not delay the overall NMCI rollout, said Rear Adm. 
Charles Munns, NMCI director.

Legacy systems must be tested to ensure that they do not interfere with the 
operations of the new NMCI network and that they meet NMCI, Navy and 
Defense Department security requirements. The Navy has nearly 70,0000 
applications that must be reviewed before they will either be shifted to 
the new network or discontinued if not needed.

"Clearly the processes we have had in place...are not adequate," Capt. 
Chris Christopher, NMCI deputy director for plans, policy and oversight, 
said May 15.

Under the existing review process, the NMCI team treated every application 
as if it were an enterprise application, Munns said. Under the new process, 
reviewed and approved nonenterprise applications will be loaded on PCs at 
commands when they are ready, he said.

Once the rollout is finished, the Navy will tackle the more difficult 
legacy application issues, which include assessing DOD enterprise 
applications that the Navy is required to use, said Rick Rosenberg, EDS' 
NMCI program executive.

Some NMCI and EDS officials acknowledge that the faster review process will 
increase the number of applications that will be put onto the kiosk system. 
Munns expects that about one-quarter of the applications that will migrate 
to NMCI could be moved to kiosks.

EDS is responsible for the cost of running the kiosk systems; however, that 
may change in the future, Rosenberg said.

"The Navy is developing policies for how long you can maintain a kiosk," 
Christopher said.

The Navy also plans to discontinue more applications and require that sites 
shift to the enterprise applications, Munns said. NMCI has standardized on 
Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite.

Meanwhile, EDS and Navy officials were forced to do damage control after a 
published report that cited an internal EDS memo suggesting NMCI was 
foundering. Rosenberg called the April 25 memo from Mike Hatcher, chief 
delivery executive for EDS, an attempt to rally the NMCI team during what 
was a critical period of time. The memo says that EDS is going to begin 
"ruthlessly rolling out seats."

EDS officials acknowledged that the program has encountered problems. "Do 
we need to become more aggressive in streamlining processes? Yes. Do we 
need to become more aggressive in rolling seats out? The answer is yes," 
Rosenberg said in a May 15 briefing with reporters.
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Federal Computer Week
CIOs' input needed

Nearly six years after the Clinger-Cohen Act was signed into law, setting 
the stage to reform federal information technology management and establish 
chief information officers at federal agencies, CIOs still are trying to 
elbow their way into the top managerial ranks in agencies. It's about time 
that they have a seat, and a prominent one at that, at agencies' top 
managerial tables.

As pointed out by numerous CIOs at FCW Media Group's Government CIO Summit 
this month, CIOs still struggle to have their voices heard when top agency 
managers create sweeping business plans or policies. As one CIO pointed 
out, his position wasn't even on the agency's organizational chart.

It's been a long struggle. One week after President Clinton signed the 
Clinger-Cohen Act into law on Aug. 8, 1996, one of the congressional 
authors of the law worried that the administration was not "focusing on the 
importance of the CIO."

CIOs' lack of influence is doubly disconcerting given that President Bush's 
management agenda calls for agencies to "make the government a 'click and 
mortar' enterprise," according to Bush's fiscal 2003 budget request. And as 
pointed out by a senior Bush administration official, the other four topics 
in the agenda  strategic management of the workforce, competitive sourcing, 
improved financial performance, and budget and performance integration  all 
require strong IT components.

Mark Forman, Bush's chief e-government architect, and his team at the 
Office of Management and Budget have done a lot to raise the profile of IT 
and the CIO's role. But the message has not made it into agency 
secretaries' offices, CIOs say. Too often the CIO has no clout to truly 
help reform business processes, and policies are made without consulting 
the CIO or after the fact, when reform proposals are already on paper.

Without the chance to be a part of the team that decides how to reform 
government, IT failures and disappointments will continue. Including CIOs 
in the decision-making process will increase the probability of success for 
government reforms.
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Government Computer News
Supreme Court will rule on online registry of sex offenders
By Preeti Vasishtha

The Supreme Court will review a state law that requires the online posting 
of names, addresses and photographs of convicted sex offenders.

The court yesterday announced that it would consider Connecticut Department 
of Public Safety vs. Doe. The case originated in 1999 when two men sued 
Connecticut in federal court, arguing they were not dangerous and would be 
stigmatized if the state law were applied to them.

According to the Connecticut law, anyone convicted of a sex-related crime 
must supply name, address, photograph and DNA samples to the state police, 
which posts the information on its Web site.

Last year, the Connecticut's State Police Department posted information 
about 2,100 offenders on the site, which received 150,000 hits each month.

But a federal district judge sided with the men last year, ruling the 
posting of the personal data without a hearing to determine if they were 
dangerous violated the men's constitutional rights.

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next fall, and a ruling is 
expected by July 2003.
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San Francisco Gate
Internet can be lifeline for busy moms
L.A. Lorek, San Antonio Express-News
Monday, May 20, 2002
©2002 San Francisco Chronicle

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Any mother who has ever had a tired and fussy toddler throw a fit in a 
grocery store lane can see the benefits of shopping on the Internet.

"The Internet is so easy," said Jill Cooper of San Antonio, a stay-at-home 
mom with two sons, ages 4 and 5. "I don't have to leave the house with two 
active boys in tow. It makes it so much more convenient."

Mothers looking for a better way to shop, communicate and do research are 
increasingly turning to the Internet.

In fact, mothers with young children average nearly 17 hours online a week, 
according to a survey by America Online, the Internet service provider. AOL 
says that compares to about 12 hours on average for teenagers.

Mothers are not just shopping online; the top activity is keeping in touch 
with friends and family by e-mail and instant messages. Other favorite 
activities include finding driving directions and information, visiting 
kid- friendly sites, shopping for gifts and paying bills.

Cooper started using the Internet five years ago to keep in touch with her 
twin sister who lives in Kiev, Ukraine. She also e-mails other family 
members in Connecticut and California.

"I've always got the computer on and I try to use it when the boys are 
occupied," Cooper said.

The Internet is an invaluable tool for mothers, said Sharman Stein, 
articles editor for Working Mother magazine and the mother of 11- and 
8-year- old boys.

"The Internet lets moms take care of all kinds of things they need to do 
without hassle," Stein said.

Stein spends about $100 per month shopping online, primarily for clothes, 
household goods and books. Recently, she needed to get a blue blazer and 
button-down shirt for her son, who is graduating from primary school. She 
logged on to the Internet and bought the items within minutes.

"When you are a mom and you are working, suddenly there is no time," Stein 
said. "The Internet helps simplify my life."

Working Mother surveyed its subscribers and found more than half spent at 
least $300 online in the past 12 months.

Some mothers go online to find a bargain.

According to an April Jupiter Media Metrix survey, 41 percent of women with 
children say they buy things online on sale that they wouldn't have bought 
otherwise.

"Women with kids look for online bargains," Jon Gibs, a Jupiter analyst 
said in the research report. "Therefore, companies looking to reach women 
online with kids should focus on price promotions and marketing programs 
such as online coupons."
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San Francisco Gate
ATTACK OF THE MOVIE CLONES
Pirated copies of "Star Wars: Episode II' and other new films gaining 
audience on the Internet

A week ago in a country half a world away, Martin Netter didn't have to 
wait until the new Star Wars blockbuster premiered in theaters today. He 
had already downloaded a free bootleg copy off the Internet.

"If I like the movie, I buy the DVD," said Netter, a 19-year-old Web 
designer from the Czech Republic, in an e-mail. "And if I don't, I'm happy 
I've watched (this) version first and didn't waste my money."

Although Hollywood would still cast Netter as a thief, that's not stopping 
him -- nor a small but growing group of downloaders -- from turning to the 
Internet to check out the latest flicks, even movies that haven't yet 
premiered.

"Spider-Man," for example, was posted online before the film's first 
record- breaking opening weekend was done. And online file traders are 
already on the lookout for "Men in Black II," due in the theaters on July 3.

Thus there was little surprise when a downloadable copy of "Star Wars: 
Episode II -- Attack of the Clones," apparently shot clandestinely with a 
digital video camera at a preview, appeared on the Internet last Thursday.

Movie industry executives say this latest example of online piracy is just 
another reason why they hope Congress will pass new copyright protection 
laws to help them combat what they call a clear and present danger to their 
livelihoods.

"The issue is how will we continue to deliver a paycheck to our people 
every week if we get to a world in which people don't have to pay to watch 
our content," said Preton Padden, executive vice president for governmental 
relations for the Walt Disney Co.


MOST STILL PAY
For the vast majority of movie fans, paying $8.50 at the box office or $20 
for a DVD remains an easier, more enjoyable experience than downloading and 
watching a small, poor-quality video on a computer screen.

The Motion Picture Association of America frequently quotes a survey 
released in early 2001 that estimated 300,000 to 500,000 movies were 
downloaded each day, with about 1,500 Internet Relay Chat channels devoted 
to sharing feature films.

But the latest estimates by Boston consulting firm Viant Corp., the 
survey's author, show that the activity has grown incrementally in the past 
year to between 400,000 and 600,000 movie files per day.

That works out to about 12 million to 18 million files per month. By 
comparison, users of the Napster program were swapping nearly 3 billion 
song files per month before a court-ordered shutdown last year.


GAINING POPULARITY
But even if Hollywood isn't facing Armageddon right away, one expert who 
follows file sharing said the fact that an iconic film such as "Attack of 
the Clones" is available online could be a tipping point that drives the 
practice of downloading films from the fringe to the mainstream.

That could mean the trailers and other prerelease movie hype will no longer 
cut it for audiences who will have the chance to see a movie before they 
actually pay for it, said Eric Garland, president of BigChampagne, a Los 
Angeles research firm that follows peer-to-peer file-sharing programs.

"When you think of the nature of (the movie industry's) business model, 
you'd much rather have an uninformed audience coming to the table every 
weekend hoping to be entertained than a savvy public that is informed," 
Garland said.

"It's tempting to say, 'Oh gosh, look what happened to the music business 
and Hollywood is next,' " Garland added. But only about 2 percent of the 
files swapped using peer-to-peer networks like KaZaa or Gnutella are 
feature-length films, he said.


FILM STUDIOS ARE WORRIED
Still, industry experts fear a proliferation of free movies on the Internet 
would harm other standard movie industry profit windows -- home video 
sales, pay-per-view and broadcast. Those are key sources of revenue given 
that only 2 in 10 movies make back the money spent on production during 
their theatrical run.

"We want to be online, it would be ludicrous for us not to recognize the 
Internet as an incredible way to reach a wide variety of people," said Rich 
Taylor, spokesman for the Motion Picture Association of America. "But the 
Internet is a place of business. If there's looting going on there, you 
don't open up a Wal-Mart on that corner."

But downloaders contacted for this story said they didn't consider what 
they did theft, just a way to make sure they spent their entertainment 
dollars wisely.


SAMPLING THE GOODS
Florian Zander of Germany, for example, downloaded "Spider-Man" "just to 
see if it's worth watching in cinemas."

"If you like the movie, you'll surely see it in the cinema again because 
you cannot compare a small PC display with (lousy) sound against a huge 
cinema screen with Dolby-digital sound," Zander said. "And it is of course 
much more fun to see the movie with all your friends."

Unlike the MP3, the music file format popularized by Napster, the movie 
files are noticeably inferior to the original product, especially the first 
versions that go online. Called screeners or telesyncs, these copies are 
films taped off the big screen by a video camera smuggled into the theater. 
Often, a higher-quality version, ripped from the film's eventual DVD, later 
appears online.

Experts say some of the screeners are the work of people who are after the 
"thrill of the chase" of wanting to be the first to post a new movie 
online. They even take credit by superimposing their logos on the movie.

One online movie sharer with the screen name Chiara did not download the 
latest Star Wars because the telesync version "would spoil it when I will 
see it in the theater."


DOWNLOADERS ARE MOVIE FANS
"We may share movies, but above all we are a movie fan club," Chiara said. 
"We are the first to see a movie in the theater, we are the ones that stand 
in line to get the DVD first."

Netter, the downloader from the Czech Republic, first previewed "Vanilla 
Sky" online and loved it. "I went to the theater seven times, and I 
preordered the DVD. Does this mean I stole anything from 'Vanilla Sky' 
makers? No," he said.

But finding and downloading the latest box-office smash can consume hours 
if not days of effort and requires a high-speed Internet connection and 
enough hard drive space to download a file that can be as big as 700 MB.

Downloaders say the surest way to find a clean copy of a new movie is on 
Internet Relay Chat channels, a process that even veterans of the computer 
conferencing method warn takes some know-how.


BAIT AND SWITCH
Users of popular, consumer-friendly peer-to-peer programs like KaZaa, 
Grokster and BearShare also share movies, although a large number of files 
labeled "Spider-Man" or "Star Wars" were actually copies of films like 
"Panic Room," "Atlantis" or "Corky Romano."

Beginning with last November's Harry Potter movie, more mislabeled or blank 
video files have appeared on peer-to-peer networks, said Matt Bailey, 
president of Redshift Research, a Belmont, Mass., firm that studies digital 
entertainment

"It looks like someone is putting a fair amount of time and effort into 
putting these bogus files on the network" to discourage consumers, Bailey 
said.

Eventually, however, the number of real copies will outnumber the fake 
files, Bailey said.


FIGHTING BACK
The motion picture industry has stepped up efforts to track screeners, 
scouring the peer-to-peer networks, Internet Relay Chats, file-transfer 
protocol sites, Web sites and newsgroups to crack down on movie swapping.

Last year, the Motion Picture Association of America sent 54,000 e-mail 
notices to 1,680 Internet service providers around the world notifying them 
of members who were offering pirated copies of movies for downloading, said 
Hemanshu Nigam, the trade group's vice president of worldwide Internet 
enforcement.

Another 18,000 letters were mailed during the first quarter this year. 
Meanwhile, on April 26, the group started contacting ISPs about "repeat 
infringers."

The letters ask the ISPs to take whatever action they can under their own 
service policies to block infringers. Nigam said he's seen an 82 percent 
drop in the number of infringing newsgroups but noted activity on 
peer-to-peer networks is harder to control.

Garland believes another solution would be for movie studios to entice 
movie fans with free, high-quality, downloadable videos that show the first 
10 or 20 minutes of a film.

"Imagine if the studios filled the Internet with the first 10 minutes of 
'Spider-Man,' " Garland said. "It would be like telling a camp fire story 
and stopping in the middle."

"We know this is the Internet era," Garland said. "As a social phenomenon, 
file sharing is here to stay."

E-mail Benny Evangelista at bevangelista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Government Computer News
Late changes to a security R&D bill call for NIST cybersecurity office
By Jason Miller
The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee late last week 
passed an IT security research bill that would create a cybersecurity 
office at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The bill, S 
2182, now awaits a vote by the full Senate.

During markup, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) amended the Cybersecurity R&D Act, 
boosting proposed five-year funding from $875 million to $977 million, to 
better focus government and industry efforts to improve network and 
software security. Changes in the bill also would give more 
responsibilities to the Commerce Department's NIST and the National Science 
Foundation to promote cybersecurity research.

The creation of the NIST office, which would be called the Office for 
Information Security Programs, was one of three provisions added to the 
bill. The office would oversee the government's efforts to buttress 
cybersecurity research, including a program to assist colleges and 
universities in entering partnerships with companies and government 
laboratories to conduct such research.

NIST also would have to develop benchmark security standards for agencies 
to implement and draft security guidelines for common software used by 
agencies.

The bill would require NSF to award grants for cybersecurity research to 
colleges, universities and companies. The bill also would encourage 
graduate students to teach cybersecurity in return for paying their college 
loans.
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USA Today
Bounty offered to software bug hunters

WASHINGTON (AP)  A popular Internet privacy service that lets Web surfers 
visit sites anonymously has fixed several serious flaws, and now the 
service's founder is offering a reward to the finder of the bugs.

Bennett Haselton, an Internet filtering activist who runs the Peacefire Web 
site, found the problems with Anonymizer.com, a five-year-old service that 
shields users from tracking by Web sites and their Internet providers.

Haselton "came up with a new way of exploiting (Web) standards," Anonymizer 
president Lance Cottrell explained Monday. "They're pretty subtle."

Many major commercial sites cringe when security researchers find a hole. 
But Anonymizer actually encourages it through a "bug bounty."

Haselton's reward: three free years of the Anonymizer service, which costs 
$50 a year. Cottrell said the offer stands for anyone else who can find 
security holes in the service.

"We are always actively soliciting people to attack it," Cottrell said. 
"Trying to hide and keeping your head down is always the wrong answer."

Ordinarily, Web sites collect lots of information about visitors, including 
the Internet address that can lead to a visitor's geographic location, as 
well as shopping habits and previous Web travels.

Anonymizer keeps the visitor's information secret by standing between the 
customer's Web browser and the desired Web site.

Customers can use Anonymizer through the company's Web site or with a 
downloadable program. The service allows Web users to keep personal 
information away from marketing sites, or to keep their bosses from seeing 
their Web surfing at work.

For example, a person could use Anonymizer's service to visit the FBI's tip 
site and offer information truly anonymously.

The methods Haselton developed, though, could be used on a Web site to 
determine where the visitor is really coming from and negate the 
effectiveness of Anonymizer.

Independent researchers who find security holes frequently get a cold 
reception from Web sites. Internet companies complain that the researchers 
are more interested in notoriety  the rush to release their find  than 
customer safety.

The battle between the two sides has prompted several security firms, along 
with Microsoft Corp., to advocate limited disclosure of security holes. 
This has brought even more controversy among security experts.

Cottrell said his company doesn't know of any Web sites that used 
Haselton's methods to defeat the privacy program.

"Our customers are very open with us," Cottrell said. "I'm sure we would 
have heard about it."
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Government Executive
Senate committee sets up 'emergency technology guard'
By Molly M. Peterson, National Journal News Service

Legislation to make it easier for science and technology experts to assist 
government agencies during terrorist attacks or other national emergencies 
won quick approval Friday from the Senate Commerce, Science and 
Transportation Committee.

The Science and Technology Emergency Mobilization Act (S. 2037) would 
create a "national emergency technology guard" within the National 
Institute of Standards and Technology to provide science and technology 
assistance to federal, state and local emergency response agencies.

The panel approved the bill by unanimous consent with no debate.
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Government Executive
Senate panel creates cybersecurity programs, standards
By Molly M. Peterson, National Journal News Service

Legislation to create new cybersecurity research programs at the National 
Science Foundation and the National Institute of Science and Technology won 
quick approval Friday from the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation 
Committee.


The Cyber Security Research and Development Act (S. 2182), which the panel 
approved by unanimous consent, aims to improve information sharing and 
collaboration among government, industry and academic cybersecurity 
researchers, while increasing the number of U.S. workers with expertise in 
that field.


Under a managers' amendment adopted by unanimous consent, the bill also 
would establish standards for cybersecurity technologies used by federal 
agencies. Technology industry representatives oppose the provision. They 
say federal standards would make it more difficult for government and 
industry to respond quickly to emerging cybersecurity threats.


"Such requirements are both inappropriate and unworkable, as cybersecurity 
threats are always changing and technologies must rapidly evolve to meet 
them," said Robert Holleyman, president and CEO of the Business Software 
Alliance, whose members include Microsoft, IBM, Intel and other 
high-profile technology companies.
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Government Executive
White House works on data management privacy principles
By Maureen Sirhal, National Journal's Technology Daily

As the White House unveils online government services, the nation's 
e-government chief said Monday that the Bush administration is working hard 
to balance concerns over privacy with the need for streamlined 
information-sharing practices.

These challenges are particularly difficult for government, Mark Forman, 
associate director of information technology and e-government for the White 
House Office of Management and Budget told the National Academy of Public 
Administration's privacy conference.


To meet President Bush's mandate for more effective management of federal 
agencies, OMB is spearheading efforts to translate some agency duties to 
the Internet, providing greater and more efficient access to citizens, 
businesses, and state and local governments.


The key to e-government rests on the ability for agencies "to get rid of 
redundant copies of the data" so that citizens can go to a one-stop shop to 
accomplish a range of tasks, Forman said. But that streamlined vision of 
agency access to data requires principles to ensure that personal 
information is not compromised and that businesses and individuals can 
trust the system, he added.


Forman said that in cases concerning homeland security, agencies must be 
able to share information in back-end operations to assess threats, for 
example, and that necessity may pose privacy tradeoffs.


To establish a proper balance between privacy and online service, OMB is 
working to establish principles for data management. The e-government 
initiative must make sure that the data collected is being used for its 
stated purpose. Means of data collection must be secure, while access to 
that information is maintained on a "need-to-know basis," Forman said.


And to meet those goals, OMB will continue issuing privacy management 
guidelines, including the requirement that all agencies submit privacy 
assessments of the technologies they propose to acquire. OMB also will 
continue to prohibit tracking technologies and will require agencies to 
post viable privacy policies to the Web and to appoint senior privacy 
officials.

Forman also cited OMB's progress on an e-authentication system, which will 
be the key enabler of online services. The system will ensure privacy 
protection by providing a "gateway" where citizens, businesses and other 
government agencies can obtain the proper security clearance to engage in 
online transactions with the federal government, he said.


"We're very committed to promoting privacy interests," Forman said. "But in 
the back office, integrating lines of business, you have to be able to 
correlate information."
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Nando Times
Teachers claim Web sites offer students easy cheating chance

(May 21, 2002 11:41 a.m. EDT) - Plagiarism has always existed, some say 
since the birth of formal education. But the Internet has made the 
temptation to steal words much harder to resist.

Faculty members say some students create entire papers using a patchwork of 
paragraphs from different sources without giving the original author credit 
for the words or ideas.

Some students cut corners with research papers because they feel the 
pressure to earn top grades; other students do it to keep up with their 
classmates.

Still others do not see the crime in lifting a few lines of someone else's 
work.

In a 2000-01 survey, more than half of 4,500 high school students said they 
had used sentences from Internet sources without citing them, according to 
Rutgers University professor Donald McCabe. Of those students, about a 
third said they cheated because they "didn't study" or they were "lazy."

Whatever the motivation, if students are plagiarizing they are not 
learning, said Dimitri Keriotis, an English professor at Modesto Junior 
College in California.

"I hate to feel that I'm a writing cop, but at the same time, the student 
(who plagiarizes) should not be graded equally as someone who has done 
original work," he said.

Faculty members now have access to anti-plagiarism technology that they 
hope will deter students from taking the risk - a risk that could result in 
failing grades, or, in extreme cases, expulsion.

Modesto Junior College and California State University-Stanislaus have 
started training faculty to use Turnitin.com, a computer program that 
matches material in student papers to articles, books and information on 
Web sites. Some professors have their students submit their papers to 
Turnitin.com before handing them in to be graded.

Turnitin.com software is keen enough to detect the origins of passages, 
even if some of the words have been changed. Of the 10,000 papers submitted 
to Turnitin.com from around the world every day, about 30 percent have some 
degree of plagiarism.

More than arming instructors with a tool to catch cheaters, it gives 
students a chance to check their work before they submit it for a grade, 
faculty said.

John Barrie, who founded Turnitin, said: "As a society, we had better be 
concerned that we could be exposing ourselves to a whole generation of 
students who have a shaky ethical foundation and who don't have the 
critical thinking skills to succeed."

In January, the Georgia Institute of Technology began investigating 186 
cases of students accused of recycling assignments in two computer 
programming classes. Last year the University of Virginia had 157 cases of 
plagiarism from one physics class.

Most - if not all - schools and universities have policies or honor codes 
prohibiting plagiarism and cheating, but it is professors and teachers who 
usually determine the discipline.

Not all students understand the severity of their plagiarizing.

One student who admitted to plagiarizing filed a petition to get his 
failing grade reversed, said Wilma McLeod, Modesto Junior College vice 
president of student services. McLeod plans to stand behind the professor, 
but that's not always the case at every school.

In Kansas, high school teacher Christine Pelton came under fire from 
parents for failing 28 students for an assignment in which they copied from 
the Internet. Turnitin.com exposed the cheating.

But the school board succumbed to parental pressure, and Pelton resigned.

Not all plagiarism involves copying from published sources. Sometimes work 
is traded or sold among students.

The business of selling and recycling term papers is hardly new. Before the 
Internet, term papers were sold through ads in student publications. Some 
fraternities and sororities keep files of recycled term papers.

In the past five years, the online cheating industry has grown and made it 
very simple to find and buy papers.

"The proliferation of term paper mills is incredible," said Laura Boyer, a 
Stanislaus State reference librarian. "There are literally hundreds. They 
are getting very specific. Here we are talking about plagiarism, and 
there's a site that has term papers on ethics."

But another irony of online cheating is that most of what is on the 
Internet is not worth buying or stealing, said Stanislaus State English 
professor Renny Christopher.

In searching cheat sites, most papers that Christopher found had stale 
ideas and poor grammar, she said. She found a paper on Ernest Hemingway's 
"The Old Man and the Sea," but the paper listed the author as "John 
Hemingway."

"This is a paper not worth grading," she said.
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Nando Times
Console makers believe future of gaming is online

LOS ANGELES (May 20, 2002 7:52 p.m. EDT) - The video game industry is 
setting its sights online after a flurry of console price cuts that will 
put the focus less on the hardware itself and more on giving consumers 
reason to get hooked.

The big three machine makers - Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo - are hoping 
people will be willing to pay subscription fees for multiplayer interactive 
games. They're unveiling plans to allow play across time zones and even 
language barriers using high-speed Internet connections.

While the hype will run thick at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, 
many analysts say online games will take a few years to become more than a 
niche market as the industry works out issues starting with broadband 
availability and ending with their ability to offer compelling content.

"At the end of the day, online console gaming is going to be a very small 
market for the next couple of years," said Schelley Olhava, senior analyst 
at IDC, a market research firm.

The expo, which begins Wednesday and runs through Friday, gives software 
and hardware makers a chance to introduce new games and accessories. The 
industry generated $9.4 billion in sales last year, $3 billion from 
hardware. By contrast, Hollywood's box office gross last year was $8.4 
billion.

Olhava and others believe online gaming will truly take off in 2004 or 
2005, when the next generation of consoles rolls out and high-speed 
Internet is more pervasive. Currently, a little more than one in 10 U.S. 
homes have broadband connections.

"Right now, the goal is to create content to drive people who own the 
consoles to buy more games and, more importantly, drive people who don't 
own consoles to buy one," said Olhava.

Microsoft's online gaming network, called Xbox Live, is being offered for 
an introductory fee of about $49 a year, though officials weren't saying 
what they expect to charge after that.

The offer includes a headset that enables users to talk to one another via 
their Xbox consoles' broadband connection, effectively creating a phone 
service during gameplay.

Players can choose online nicknames and locate friends via a "buddy list," 
while the system maintains a record of their achievements and failures.

Microsoft said it would invest $2 billion in the Xbox, much of it to 
develop the online game network. Robbie Bach, the company's chief Xbox 
officer, said almost half the nearly 3.5 million Xbox owners have broadband 
Internet connections.

Later this week, software companies were expected to unveil versions of 
games for the Xbox network as well as Sony's Playstation2, which will 
provide online access later this year.

Unlike Microsoft's approach, Sony will not charge a subscription fee and 
will rely on the open Internet instead of its own closed network for 
interactive gaming.

Nintendo will start shipping modem and broadband adaptors later this year, 
but has downplayed the importance of online videogaming in the short term.

Nintendo's GameCube has shipped about 4.5 million units worldwide so far. 
PlayStation2 is the clear industry leader with more than 30 million units 
sold worldwide.

Nintendo on Monday announced the latest cut in console prices, dropping the 
GameCube system down to $149. Last week, the Playstation2 and Xbox saw 
price slashes down to $199. Unlike its competitors, the GameCube lacks a 
built-in DVD player.

Online video games are already popular with PC users.

Internet services such as Yahoo and Electronic Arts host card games, chess 
and checkers and more elaborate role-playing games on their Web sites.

Games such as "Everquest," made by Sony Online Entertainment, and "Ultima 
Online," from Origin Systems, have a loyal following of dedicated players 
who pay a monthly subscription fee plus the cost of software to play using 
their PCs.

Companies such as Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and even Sega, which launched 
one of the early online gaming networks, believe that popularity will 
migrate to console online games over the next few years.

"Online gaming in the past has been pretty clunky," said Scott Burnett, 
director of marketing at the IBM Global Digital Media Group. "You couldn't 
get the same experience you could from the box at home, whether it was 
because of bandwidth, the design of the games or processing abilities."

IBM recently said it would join with butterfly.net to provide the 
technological backbone to produce online games for personal computers as 
well as consoles. The programming tools are based on the open-source Linux 
operating system.

Sega, which stopped making game consoles last year, will make online games 
for the other platforms. It currently has over 100 servers supporting its 
dial-up Sega.net service. Those computers will be transferred to support 
new games being developed for the Playstation2 and the Nintendo GameCube.
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Nando Times
Library of Congress puts American history on the Web

WASHINGTON (May 20, 2002 8:25 p.m. EDT) - Anyone who wants to hear Buffalo 
Bill's own voice at home or John Philip Sousa's original band can tune in 
by computer now, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Many new computers have the necessary soundboard.

The library announced Monday it has put on line the 111th and 112th 
collections of materials on its "American Memory" Web site. The site now 
includes more than 7.5 million items, which the library says is the world's 
largest collection of online educational material.

"Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry" includes more than 
400 items from the library's collection of Berliner's papers and 108 of his 
sound recordings beginning in 1894.

Berliner was an immigrant from Germany. He patented the flat disc 
gramophone records that superseded the original cylindrical recordings.

Buffalo Bill - William F. Cody - rode for the Pony Express and fought in 
the Civil War. Soon afterward he won his nickname hunting buffalo, or 
bison, to feed workers who built the Kansas Pacific Railroad, His outdoor 
exhibition "Buffalo Bill's Wild West" remained on the road for 30 years, 
with Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull among its performers.

On the Web site, he can be heard expressing his views on the situation in 
Cuba that led to the Spanish-American War.

Sousa played in the U.S. Marine Band when he was only 13 and in later life 
became its leader before forming his own group. The Sousa band toured the 
United States and abroad for decades, playing some of his famous marches, 
including "The Stars and Stripes Forever."

The other new collection on the site is "The First American West: The Ohio 
River Valley, 1750-1820," which contains more than 15,000 pages of original 
material.

It covers the area west of the Appalachian mountains that fascinated the 
republic's founding fathers. There are comments from Thomas Jefferson and 
James Madison, letters, diaries, tales of migration, trade on the Ohio 
River, contacts with American Indians and the lives of African Americans in 
slavery there.
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Wired News
Handheld Delivers the 411 on DNA

The research center where the first computer mouse was born in 1963 has 
developed a device that could revolutionize the way doctors diagnose diseases.

SRI International's device, called Hermes, takes a very simple approach to 
a complicated endeavor: isolating and purifying a patient's DNA in order to 
get accurate and fast diagnoses.

Many scientists have tried to miniaturize and speed up the lengthy and 
expensive process of shipping DNA samples to labs. Results can take days or 
weeks but with Hermes, doctors could have results immediately.

You could determine whether someone was HIV positive, then go on to 
investigate what subtype they might be," said John Bashkin, program manager 
of the Hermes project at SRI International. This will lead to better and 
faster treatment, he said.

Another application is in the treatment of breast cancer. About 25 percent 
of cases can be treated successfully with a drug called Herceptin. Hermes 
could help a doctor determine immediately whether a patient is a candidate 
for the drug.

The device is so simple and elegant that it almost looks like a toy. A tiny 
magnet jumps into a well of fluid, grabs some DNA, jumps into another well 
to rinse itself off, then another. In the last well, it spins around and 
releases the DNA of interest and makes it ready for a clinician to identify.

Electromagnetic energy carries the magnet from well to well. Several tiny 
coils of wire situated along the bottom of the device generate a magnetic 
field energized by an electric current from a computer.

The device requires no mechanical moving parts, no filtering, no valves and 
no fluid pumping of any kind.

Other devices trying to accomplish a doctor's office diagnosis take an 
opposite approach. Instead of moving the sample to the various liquids as 
the Hermes magnet does, they bring the liquids to and from the sample.

"That's why the approaches that compete with Hermes are more complicated, 
requiring miniature pumps and valves, while Hermes is more simple because 
it just moves one thing, the magnet with the attached sample, to and from 
the different liquids," said Neville Bonwit, a research engineer at SRI who 
designed the device.

Combined with one of several nanotechnology-based devices now in 
development, doctors could have in their hands an extremely accurate, 
sensitive and fast-working device.

After the sample is isolated and purified by a device like Hermes, a 
clinician still needs to find a way to analyze the sample, often using a 
process called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which can take hours.

Nanotechnology researchers have shortened the process and increased its 
accuracy.

One such nanotechnology developed at Northwestern University's Institute 
for Nanotechnology is 10 times faster and 100,000 times more accurate than 
PCR.

But before the nanotechnology is implemented, researchers have to make sure 
the sample is pure, so Bashkin hopes to make Hermes a modular application 
that would integrate with this type of nanotech.

"Unless you remove impurities, (these) chips ... could become fouled or 
give improper results," Bashkin said.

Chad Mirkin, the director of Northwestern's nanotech center, said the new 
tool sounds clever, but he couldn't make a definitive judgment until the 
researchers published their work in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

"There are many ways to skin a cat, but that said, there are not too many 
great ways already out there to do this, so any advancement could pay big 
dividends," Mirkin said.

The SRI scientists hope to publish later this year.

Bashkin plans to launch a company this fall based on Hermes. A year from 
then he expects devices to be available for research purposes (when they 
won't need FDA approval). He hopes the FDA approval process, which takes 
about two years to complete, will begin a year later.

One of Hermes' chief competitors will be Cepheid, a company that is already 
making similar devices that are primarily for environmental and food DNA 
detection rather than "point-of-care" diagnosis of disease.

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Wired News
Tagging Books to Prevent Theft

For reference librarians, scanning endless bar codes is as tedious a daily 
task as dealing with stolen, lost or overdue library books.

Now, a wafer-thin, microchip-based tag the size of a postage stamp could 
ease their workloads.

Librarians can affix materials with security tags that contain microchips 
and an antenna that transmits information to a wireless reader using radio 
frequency identification (RFID) technology.

The technology could one day become as ubiquitous as the bar code.

Unlike bar codes, which need to be scanned manually and read individually, 
radio ID tags do not require line-of-site for reading. Multiple tags can be 
read simultaneously, through packaging or book covers.

With radio ID tags, librarians can automate check-ins and returns. Patrons 
can speed through self-checkout without any assistance or ever even opening 
a book.

An RFID tag can be read from just inches away, so librarians can simply 
wave a wireless wand while walking through stacks to record what books are 
on the shelves. The hand-held unit reads the chips and stores data that can 
be downloaded into the library's circulation system. Instead of weeks or 
months, collection inventory would take just hours.

"Inventory of the collection, normally a time-consuming process, is made 
easy and quick," said Patricia Mackey, librarian for Rockefeller University 
Library, which uses Checkpoint Systems' Intelligent Library System.

Electromagnetic sensors guard library exits, so that only checked-out books 
leave the building. If a book isn't signed out properly, a hidden RFID tag 
will trigger the sensors and an alarm will sound to alert librarians to a 
possible theft.

At Rockefeller University Library, a camera videotapes patrons in real time 
whenever an alarm is triggered, catching action that security guards might 
miss.

A number of vendors, such as Texas Instruments, Checkpoint Systems, 3M 
Library Systems and Tagsys, have introduced RFID technology to the 
library-security market.

But the applications for RFID technology are limitless.

"Fundamentally, the technology can and is being extended well beyond 
libraries," said Doug Karp, senior director of RFID operations and 
strategic marketing for Checkpoint Systems.

"So many things are being looked at because of what this technology can 
do," Karp said.

Booksellers in Great Britain hope to use RFID chips to track each book's 
transaction, from publisher to wholesaler and retailer to customer.

But cost and lack of standards have prevented many libraries from adopting 
RFID technology. RFID tags cost upwards of 50 cents, whereas bar code tags 
cost about 2 cents.

"Cost may be a factor for many libraries," Mackey said. "It can be costly 
if the library is using older technology for security purposes and it has 
to be replaced or if they have a very large collection to treat with 
security tags."
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Lillie Coney
Public Policy Coordinator
U.S. Association for Computing Machinery
Suite 507
1100 Seventeenth Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20036-4632
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