Well finally some big time action.
"Four of the largest internet service providers (ISPs) in the US have begun legal action to crack down on spam.
AOL, EarthLink, Microsoft and Yahoo are suing around 220 individuals across four states alleging that they have broken the Can-Spam Act, which came into force on 1 January."
BT, a major broadband ISP in the UK, has 2 million broadband customers, and is gunning for 5 million. And they're saying content is going to be a key to achieving the goal. WHich makes sense, the whole point of broadband is being able to experience content - in all its multimedia forms - faster and better. BT's initiative is interesting:
"The group plans to take on the pay-TV industry with a new service enabling everyone from broadcasters to local interest groups to supply broadband users with shows and films of DVD-like quality. It has developed a complete digital rights management suite that will allow video to be distributed for a fee, and will announce a number of content partners early next month. "
Well, he's at least reading your email, or will be if the Government gets some legislation changes through.
Couple of stories about phishing in the last few days. Phishing, if you don't know, is where naughty people send you an email, ostensibly from your bank (or some other such institution), telling you that you need to 'reconfirm' your user name and password for online banking, or somesuch. When you click the link, you arrive at a web site which looks exactly like the bank's. Except it isn't. And if you do enter in your details, the naughty people then use those to clean your account out.
Phishing was up 50% in January, according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group.
More phishing scams surface
Anti-phishing solution hopes to make its mark
Phishing scams get more sophisticated
Virgin's the next one in the increasingly crowded music download marketplace. They've announced they will offer music downloads from August. "iPod users will find no joy in the announcement as the format supported will be Windows Media Audio or WMA."
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