Re: The Macquarie Bank Case thrown out

On Sun, Jun 27, 1999, Howard Knopf <hknopf[_at_]magmacom.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Darrell Panethiere <darrell.panethiere[_at_]ifpi.org> wrote:
> >
> > Not only is it not "reasonably apparent" that works published on
> > the Internet are available worldwide, that postulate is simply wrong.
> > As a factual matter, it is possible to limit territorially the reach
> > of one's Internet postings and publishers who fail to do so have
> > found themselves suffering the consequences of this in other courts.
> > The Chinese and Singaporean governments have led the way in
> > demonstrating how efficient territorial limits can be, but we also
> > have the very clear example of Compuserve Germany which, based on the
> > news reports, seems to have developed technology to limit Internet
> > postings into and out of a single province (Bavaria) in order to
> > comply with court orders.
>
> Could you provide some further technical information or references,
> possibly some URL's, on how "it is possible to limit territorially the
> reach of one's Internet postings"? I assume that you are not speaking
> of territorial blocking in the receiving territory because you speak
> of this in China, Singapore and Germany.
>
> If my memory serves well, the German situation involved Compuserve, and
> the result may have been a voluntary internal "fix" by Compuserve. More
> detail on the "receiving" end technology would also be appreciated.

You can use domain data, language identification etc in combination to block incoming traffic. Domain data in not sufficient because there are German .com as well.

A browser could be built so it filters out things after you preferences, it would not be perfect but still close, and digital traffic can be controlled the same way. Like a "content-firewall" or "intellectual-speed-bump" in the incoming side of the network.

When you link DUN-numbers and domain data you can actually create a situation when corporate employees only can see sites that are relevant to the business.

This requires, of cause, an awareness within the corporate environment that is not in place yet.

Just to give some examples of how you can cut down the traffic to pieces that fit's what you want people/employees to see from the Internet.

Jan Kallberg
jan[_at_]cyberdefense.com Received on Sun Jun 27 1999 - 19:41:00 GMT