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Vint Cerf talks up the next-generation internet
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2227019
/vint-cerf-previews-generation
Cyber sex causes depression: study
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/09/26/1222217466
074.html
Movie, TV viewing shifting online: study [AFP]
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/27/2375858.h
tm
Japan home owners to be offered 16Gbit/s Internet connection
[IDG]
http://techworld.com/networking/news/index.cfm?newsi
d=104916
Number of cell phone subscribers to hit 4 billion this year,
UN says [news release]
ht
tp://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=28251
New era dawns at home of the internet
http://technology.timesonlin
e.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article4842964.ece
Half world's population 'will have mobile phone by end of
year'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/
2008/sep/26/mobilephones.unitednations
Mobile Phones and Cancer: More Research Needed
http://www.businessweek.com/technolo
gy/content/sep2008/tc20080925_833994.htm
Electrosensitivity-Mind your phone: Sham radiation can cause
real pain
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory
.cfm?story_id=12295230
The Interphone study: Mobile madness
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory
.cfm?story_id=12295222
Notorious ISP Intercage goes dark again [IDG]
http://www.infoworld.com
/article/08/09/26/Notorious_ISP_Intercage_goes_dark_again_1.
html
au: Man loses $20k in online love scam [AAP]
http://w
ww.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4708739a28.html
bond police close file on BT's Phorm trials
htt
p://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7634210.stm
US ISPs endorse user opt-in on Web tracking, deflect calls
for privacy laws [IDG]
http://computerworld.co
m/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9
115612
Unlimited mobile music would cut piracy and CD sales
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/
sep/29/digitalmusic.telecoms
Indie labels cry foul at MySpace Music launch
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/s
ep/26/myspace.digitalmusic
‘One-stop shop’ to keep British children safe on
internet
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/
tol/news/tech_and_web/article4842548.ece
UK children at greater risk from online predators as they
spend more time indoors
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/
3088260/UK-children-at-greater-risk-from-online-predators-as
-they-spend-more-time-indoors.html
US Congress takes up online threats to children
ht
tp://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10052502-38.html
US Congress sending child porn bills to president [AP]
h
ttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7831093
Rivals Microsoft and Google Take Top Honors in Asia
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122237391170376181.html
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RESEARCH PAPERS
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The Mass Age of Internet Law by Daithi Mac Sithigh
[Information and Communication Technology Law]
Abstract: This article addresses the topical question of how
the increased availability of (and popular interest in)
"user-generated content" (UGC) influences the
development of cyberlaw. While recognising that the Web has
been 'user-generated' since its creation, it is argued that
the commercial and critical interest in small-scale and
individual contributions to the audio/video Web, and the use
of such material by established media providers (online and
offline) presents a challenge to those who are interested in
Internet regulation and the evolution of Web media law.
Differing perspectives on the future of Internet regulation
are considered in the light of how they relate to
understanding the UGC challenge.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=127
1863
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INTERNET USE
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Vint Cerf talks up the next-generation internet
Google's chief internet evangelist Vint Cerf has set out his
view of the internet's future to coincide with the search
giant's 10th birthday.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2227019
/vint-cerf-previews-generation
Cyber sex causes depression: study
People who seek out cyber sex have "alarmingly
high" rates of depression, anxiety and stress and
typically devote hours a day to the covert activity, a study
shows.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/09/26/1222217466
074.html
Movie, TV viewing shifting online: study [AFP]
Couch potatoes may be a thing of the past as a study has
found the number of people watching video on their computers
has doubled over the past year.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/27/2375858.h
tm
Quarter of workers' time online is personal
Most people spend more than 25 per cent of their time online
at work on personal activities. And 80 per cent of emails
sent by volume in the workplace are personal.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/tech
nology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10534055
Japan home owners to be offered 16Gbit/s Internet connection
[IDG]
Japanese telecommunications carrier KDDI is to start
offering 1Gbit/s fibre optic Internet hook-ups for less than
the current price of a connection one tenth the speed.
http://techworld.com/networking/news/index.cfm?newsi
d=104916
Number of cell phone subscribers to hit 4 billion this year,
UN says [news release]
The number of mobile cellular subscribers worldwide will
reach the 4 billion mark by the end of 2008, the head of the
United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
announced today.
ht
tp://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=28251
Murdoch declares war in the last great battle of the barons
The Wall Street Journal and New York Times are locking horns
in the old press tradition. But the fight is looking
increasingly irrelevant as their readership deserts them for
the internet, writes Paul Harris
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/200
8/sep/28/newscorporation.wallstreetjournal
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SOCIAL NETWORKING
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Social networking-Facebook for suits: Websites that
encourage business networking are thriving
Among the few firms benefiting from the upheaval in the
financial markets are professional social
networks—websites that help with business networking and
job-hunting. On LinkedIn, the market leader, members have
been updating their profiles in record numbers in recent
weeks, apparently to position themselves in case they lose
their jobs. The two most popular sites, LinkedIn and Xing,
have been growing at breakneck speed and boast 29m and 6.5m
members respectively. And, in contrast to mass-market social
networks such as Facebook and MySpace, both firms have
worked out how to make money.
http://www.economist.com/business/displaysto
ry.cfm?story_id=12304861
MI6 seeks recruits on Facebook
MI6 is using the social networking site Facebook to recruit
the next generation of spies. The Secret Intelligence
Service, which has traditionally scoured the country's elite
universities for recruits, launched a series of online
adverts this month as part of its attempts to attract people
from a variety of backgrounds.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/200
8/sep/29/facebook.workandcareers
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NEW TECHNOLOGIES
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New era dawns at home of the internet
The dawn of a new internet age has begun. A network of
supercomputers, known as the Grid, is to revolutionise the
speed at which information is downloaded to personal
computers.
http://technology.timesonlin
e.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article4842964.ece
Half world's population 'will have mobile phone by end of
year'
The world's love affair with the mobile phone shows no sign
of abating, with the head of the UN's agency for information
and communication technologies predicting that there will be
4 billion mobile phone users - or more than half of the
planet's estimated 6.7 billion inhabitants - by the end of
this year.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/
2008/sep/26/mobilephones.unitednations
Mobile Phones and Cancer: More Research Needed
A large-scale study of the long-term effects of cell-phone
use needs to be carried out, medical professionals said at a
congressional hearing
http://www.businessweek.com/technolo
gy/content/sep2008/tc20080925_833994.htm
Electrosensitivity-Mind your phone: Sham radiation can cause
real pain
Whether mobile phones can cause cancer remains moot. But
they are also accused by some of causing pain. A growing
number of people around the world claim to be
“electrosensitive”, in other words physically responsive
to the electromagnetic fields that surround phones and the
other electronic devices that clutter the modern world.
Indeed, at least one country, Sweden, has recognised such
sensitivity as a disability, and will pay for the dwellings
of sufferers to be screened from the world’s electronic
smog.
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory
.cfm?story_id=12295230
The Interphone study: Mobile madness
The threat to human health from mobile phones, if any, is
much disputed. A shame, then, that a massive multinational
study on the question has ended in chaos
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory
.cfm?story_id=12295222
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ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL
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Scrabulous brothers can continue with game, says Delhi court
The brothers behind the Scrabble-aping Facebook game
Scrabulous can continue to make their game because the
Scrabble game itself is not protected by copyright, a Delhi
court has said.
http://out-law.com/page-
9452
German gamer admits killing British rival, claim Germans
A German internet wargame enthusiast who has confessed to
murdering a Briton he met online was in love with the
victim's girlfriend and had tried to woo her, German police
claimed yesterday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/27/g
ames.ukcrime
Man questioned over gamer's murder [PA]
A man has been questioned in Germany over the murder of a
British computer games enthusiast he allegedly met on the
internet, police said.
http://www.independent.c
o.uk/news/uk/crime/man-questioned-over-gamers-murder-943125.
html
Gamer arrested over computer link to knife murder of Matthew
Pyke
A German computer gamer is being questioned by police over
the murder of a university student after an apparent
argument on an online discussion site.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/
article4828367.ece
Notorious ISP Intercage goes dark again [IDG]
Accused of being home to online scammers, San Francisco
Internet service provider Intercage has been unplugged from
the Internet ... for the second time this week.
http://www.networkworld.com/n
ews/2008/092608-notorious-isp-intercage-goes-dark.html
http://www.pcwo
rld.com/businesscenter/article/151591/notorious_isp_intercag
e_goes_dark_again.html
http://www.infoworld.com
/article/08/09/26/Notorious_ISP_Intercage_goes_dark_again_1.
html
au: Man loses $20k in online love scam [AAP]
An Australian man has been stripped of $20,000 and left
red-faced after his female friend turned out to be a man, in
an online romance scam.
http://w
ww.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4708739a28.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/09/28/1222540223
551.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/09/28/1222
540223551.html
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PRIVACY
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bond police close file on BT's Phorm trials
The City of bond Police have said there will be no formal
investigation of BT over its secret trials of an ad
monitoring system. BT trialled the Phorm system - which
monitors web browsing habits in order to better target ads -
without the consent of users last summer.
htt
p://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7634210.stm
US ISPs endorse user opt-in on Web tracking, deflect calls
for privacy laws [IDG]
Three of the four largest Internet service providers in the
U.S. promised today that they will adopt policies requiring
them to get meaningful permission from customers before
tracking their online activities for targeted advertising
purposes.
http://computerworld.co
m/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9
115612
http
://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/151518/large_isps_
endorse_customer_optin_for_web_tracking.html
htt
p://pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1036594361
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ONLINE TV & MUSIC
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Unlimited mobile music would cut piracy and CD sales
The introduction of unlimited mobile music services such as
Nokia's Comes With Music and Sony Ericsson's PlayNow plus
could result in British consumers downloading a staggering
2.1bn tracks a year, according to new research.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/
sep/29/digitalmusic.telecoms
Indie labels cry foul at MySpace Music launch
MySpace, the social networking site, last night launched its
long-awaited music service, which offers millions of
streaming tracks on demand in the US, and revealed plans to
launch it worldwide. But it provoked a furious reaction from
the largest independent record labels, which accused it of
leaving them out in the cold.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/s
ep/26/myspace.digitalmusic
MySpace Music launch disappoints excluded indie labels
The launch of MySpace Music ran into controversy on Thursday
after the leading independent music trade body complained
that its small music label members had been shut out and
treated like second class citizens.
http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNew
s/idINIndia-35661620080926
http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKT
RE48O96N20080925
New Lobbying Group Calls for Internet Filtering
A just-formed lobbying group of content producers, equipment
makers and internet gatekeepers said Thursday that internet
service providers should embrace filtering.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/entertainm
ent-l.html
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CENSORSHIP
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China: A Forbidden City of words
The Chinese authorities have blacklisted certain words on
the internet. But you can't, ultimately, suppress
communication
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/s
ep/28/china.internet
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CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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‘One-stop shop’ to keep British children safe on
internet
Help is at hand for parents who fear for their children’s
safety while using the internet with the launch today of a
government scheme aimed at keeping children safe in
cyberspace.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/
tol/news/tech_and_web/article4842548.ece
UK children at greater risk from online predators as they
spend more time indoors
British children are at greater risk from online predators
than those elsewhere in Europe because their paranoid
parents keep them cooped up indoors, a report claims.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/
3088260/UK-children-at-greater-risk-from-online-predators-as
-they-spend-more-time-indoors.html
US Congress takes up online threats to children
Amid an economic crisis, Congress found some time this week
to address online threats to children. The Protect Our
Children Act, introduced by Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., made it
through the Senate on Thursday. Separate bills authored by
Sens. John McCain and Hillary Clinton were folded into the
legislation, which authorizes more than $320 million for the
Justice Department over the next five years for, among other
things, the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. The
bill would affect how Internet companies report online child
pornography to authorities, and it approves funds for law
enforcement to focus on online child exploitation.
ht
tp://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10052502-38.html
US Congress sending child porn bills to president [AP]
Congress is sending President Bush several bills that would
tighten laws on child pornographers' use of the Internet.
The House on Friday passed by 418-0 a measure clarifying
that images obtained over the Internet were subject to
federal interstate commerce laws. The bill was in response
to a federal court ruling that prosecutors must show that
images kept on a computer had crossed state lines.
h
ttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7831093
http://www.washingtonpost.co
m/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092602437.html
h
ttp://asia.news.yahoo.com/080926/ap/d93elue80.html
http://www.lasvegassu
n.com/news/2008/sep/26/congress-sending-child-porn-bills-to-
president/
http://www.thegl
obeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080926.wgtpornobill0926
/BNStory/Technology/
Daddy's internet secret
Daisy, five, loves the CBeebies website, but sometimes, when
she's looking for Balamory, a site for 'best blow jobs' pops
up. That's because her father likes to visit sex sites. Emma
Cook talks to mothers who fear online porn is threatening
family life
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/se
p/27/family.internet
YouTube hands tied in shooting
Finnish police are working with YouTube to avoid future
shootings but talks could hit a brick wall as videos can't
be pre-screened.
http://ww
w.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24402223-15306,
00.html
Won’t someone think of the children’s speech?: Internet
Technical Safety Task Force by Wendy Seltzer
I’m at Berkman for the open meeting of the Internet
Technical Safety Task Force, a group convened at the
pressing of state attorneys general to address children’s
safety on social networking sites. The day kicked off with
statements from Mass and Conn. attorneys general, to be
followed by presentations from technology companies offering
“solutions” and suggestions.
http://wendy.seltzer.
org/blog/archives/2008/09/23/internet-technical-safety-task-
force.html
Comparing Children's Online Opportunities and Risks across
Europe: Cross-national Comparisons for EU Kids Online
[Quicklinks]
Cross-national Comparisons (D3.2). The first part of this
report compares findings from various European studies to
address some key research questions and hypotheses. These
allow us to reach some general conclusions (i.e.
cross-national similarities) which hold across the European
countries examined. The second part considers factors that
might help to explain the patterns that we found.
http://www.lse.
ac.uk/collections/EUKidsOnline/Reports/ReportD3-2Crossnation
alComparisonFINAL2.pdf
Supporting families, searching for online safety solutions
As Vint Cerf wrote last December, "Google is dedicated
to supporting parents' efforts to educate and protect their
children when they go online." Through policies like
YouTube's Community Guidelines and easy-to-use technologies
like SafeSearch, Google helps families safely enjoy the
freedom of expression that is so essential to the Internet.
http://googlepublicpolicy.b
logspot.com/2008/09/supporting-families-searching-for.html
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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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NZ ICT group delivers detailed election wishlist
A group of Auckland-based ICT industry figures has delivered
its policy wish-list to the politicians of major parties,
setting out an agenda for progress in ICT development that
is far more specific than in many strategy documents seen to
date.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/new
s/BF25FB342D8389E3CC2574CC000FBF2A
NZ Government buckles over Copyright Act amendment
The government has bowed to ICT industry pressure,
announcing a four-month moratorium on Section 92A of its new
Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act.
http://www.netguide
.co.nz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=703
&Itemid=16
nz: ICT winners, losers and also-rans
It's been a big week for the local ICT industry. First, the
government backed down on its copyright legislation thanks
to an unprecedented united outcry from industry bodies; then
the three main parties (and Act) fronted up for the first
political debate of the election - and it was on ICT; and
finally, the second annual Open Source Awards were held in
Wellington.
http://www.itbrief
.co.nz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=258
2&Itemid=808
nz: Members passing motions
There's not much difference between the parties’ ICT
policies. Where they differ is on implementation issues: It
was a dark, stormy night in Avalon, one of the most peculiar
public erections in the Lower North Island, where 1,282
square metres of studio space in total and a large number of
cameras wait for live television shows to happen.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/fry/
3B14E62C5644AB72CC2574D0000BBBA9
nz: Copyright Act change shifts software rights
A change in New Zealand’s copyright law will see software
developers owning their software by default, even when that
software is commissioned, and that has led one industry
leader to warn of potential abuse.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/new
s/85C5E5DB6BD35585CC2574CF0017C13F
nz: ICT issues debated at online forum, amendment delayed
The backdown on the controversial section 92A of the
Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Bill was one of the
insights yielded in the TVNZ 7 and online election debate,
jointly organised with InternetNZ, conducted last week.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/new
s/50B30BBBB9F67EBFCC2574CF00180175
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Rivals Microsoft and Google Take Top Honors in Asia
Three years ago, Google Inc. had a marginal physical
presence in Asia -- a handful of staff in sales offices in
Japan, Korea and Australia. Flash forward to 2008: The
company has 2,000 employees in 15 offices in the region,
plus 11 research-and-development centers, where engineers
churn out products and services for Asian markets as well as
Internet users world-wide.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122237391170376181.html
TelstraClear and TradeMe cosy up
TelstraClear will let residential broadband customers surf
Trade Me and watch videos posted on its Clear.net portal
without that counting toward their data traffic caps for
three months, in a move that may pave the way for more tie-
ups between carriers and content providers.
http://www.businessday.co.nz/industries/telco_it/4709661
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/4709567a27
483.html
http://w
ww.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4709567a28.html
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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EC call for 'universal' broadband
Brussels is considering making broadband access available
for all. The fast growth of broadband has led the European
Commission to bring forward a review of the basic telecoms
services Europeans can expect.
htt
p://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7637215.stm
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MOBILE/WIRELESS
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India Adds Over 9 Million Mobile Subscribers in August
India added 9.16 million mobile subscribers in August,
taking the total number of mobile subscribers to over 305
million, according to data released Wednesday by the Telecom
Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). The country added 9.22
million mobile subscribers in July.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/151470/india_a
dds_over_9_million_mobile_subscribers_in_august.html
Europe-wide wireless broadband on the way
EU politicians have backed measures to help create a
wireless broadband service that could work across Europe.
http:/
/www.zdnetasia.com/news/communications/0,39044192,620465
10,00.htm
More texting than phone calls in the US
In the fourth quarter of 2007, American cellphone
subscribers for the first time sent text messages more than
they phoned, according to Nielsen Mobile. Since then, the
average subscriber’s volume of text messages has shot
upward by 64 percent, while the average number of calls has
dropped slightly.
http://nytimes.com/2008/09/29/technology/29drill.html
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VoIP
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VoIP system users can be targeted in attacks
Jason Ostrom of VoIP Hopper on Saturday plans to release his
next-generation VoIP sniffer at Toorcon in San Diego to help
raise awareness of the type of vulnerabilities businesses
face as they adopt unified communications (UC) technology.
htt
p://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10052393-83.html
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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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uk: NZer jailed for child porn
A New Zealand-born fitness coach with the England cricket
team has been jailed in Britain for six months for
downloading "disgusting" child porn movies.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/arti
cle.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10534722
Kiwi born cricket coach jailed over child porn videos
A New Zealand-born fitness coach with the England cricket
team was jailed in Britain overnight for six months for
downloading "disgusting" child porn movies.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/arti
cle.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10534516
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