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(E-Commerce Times 9 May 2001) http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/9578.html ANTI-SPAM LEGISLATION IN U.S. HOUSE The House Judiciary Committee is blocking an anti-spam bill that previously passed the House Energy and Commerce Commission. The bill would impose a $500 penalty for each piece of unsolicited e-mail a company distributes. Judiciary Committee member Bob Goodlatte (R., VA) said: "Legislation should be narrowly targeted to provide law enforcement with the tools they need to combat abuses without opening the floodgates to frivolous litigation or interfering with legitimate uses of e-mail for marketing purposes." The Committee favors an alternative bill, sponsored by Goodlatte, that penalize senders of unsolicited commercial messages only if the they used a bogus return address. (AP/USA Today 10 May 2001) http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-05-10-anti-spam-opposition.htm OXFORD TARGETS THE INTERNET'S IMPACT ON SOCIETY Oxford University has announced plans to create the Oxford Internet Institute, a multidisciplinary center focused on the societal and ethical impact of the Internet. According to UK Secretary of State for Education David Blunkett, one of the center's top priorities will be research issues surrounding cryptography, intellectual property and security. Research programs will target the fundamental shifts in human behavior and interactions as a result of technology, comparative media law and policy, and creating new educational software. (InformationWeek 10 May 2001) http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010510S0012 RAMBUS FOUND GUILTY OF FRAUD In a back-and-forth legal battle with Infineon Technologies, memory chip maker Rambus has been found guilty of fraud and slapped with punitive damages of $3.5 million. The fine was later reduced to $350,000 because of limitations in the local Virginia law. The verdict was a shocking turnaround for Rambus, which had sued Infineon on 57 charges of patent infringement. The jury agreed with Infineon's claim that Rambus had committed fraud because it participated in a broad chip industry project to develop fast memory chips, but did not reveal it had patents on similar technology. The goal of the cooperative project was to develop chips that would be royalty-free. (Financial Times 10 May 2001) NEW DOMAIN NAMES COMING The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has entered into contracts with the companies that will register two of the new Internet domain names the organization recently approved. Ireland-based Afilias will register names in the ".info" domain and Virginia-based NeuLevel will register names in the ".biz" domain. The two companies plan to promote the suffixes as alternatives to the U.S.-centric ".com" domain. 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