History shows that with the offspring of a societal changing invention comes a legal flux that requires parsing out to establish fair precedent. The Internet vividly displays this paradigm as issues dealing with the laws of networking sites, peer sharing programs, and security of the Internet continue to adapt. Just like laws of privacy and [...]

Court cases dealing with laws of new technology continue to set precedent for laws of future technology. With the advent of the telephone as new technology, courts had to determine a safe way to guarantee people’s right to privacy while also protecting the nation against criminals conducting internal crime or outside espionage through easier means. [...]

During the late 1990s and early 2000s the peer to peer network, Napster, became a common program on tens of millions of computers. This new technology allowed individuals to swap and share music and video files effortlessly between computers. Once certain musical artists witnessed new songs on Napster before they entered major circulation, lawsuits were [...]

President Barack Obama made specific mention of the dangers surrounding possible threats to Internet security and safety, specifically involving banking, military, and civilian Internet use. To this end, President Obama named a new chief of Cyber-security to ward off possible domestic and foreign threats to the network that connects most of the worldwide computers. Internet [...]

There have been many attempts to limit the exposure to Internet pornography on a larger scale then personal filters or content blockers. American lawmakers have tried numerous times to legislate and create online laws against the propagation of Internet pornography. Online laws limiting access to any legal content, as determined in America, have continuously been [...]

Historically, online gambling laws remained in a legal grey area that no law explicitly forbade. The passage of the SAFE port act, which carried a ride-on known as the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, disallowed the transfer of funds from a financial institution to an illegal gambling Internet site. Much controversy surrounded the [...]

Internet Law, or cyberlaw, refers to the large spectrum of communications through which Internet users utilize. Since Internet Law can traverse several state boundaries, as the Internet represents an enormous international community, it remains up to each set of distinct state laws to decipher the legality or intended purpose of the issue at hand. The [...]

In the 21st century, Internet law began to assume its own legal field and as such, requires a specific attorney to navigate its trenches. Although relatively new, an attorney or firm of Internet law, generally specializes in a combination of fields and legal issues that include; defamation, libel, copyright, trademark, and privacy, among others.
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Recent attacks on Internet security illustrate the need for new technology in protecting computer files. In early December, an Internet hacker gained access to certain computer files from the University of East Anglia. The University claims host to the Climatic Research Unit, a leading researcher and developer of new technology for tracking the effects of [...]