Looks at the beginnings of Internet law in the UK. Examines two traditional areas of law which are currently coming under pressure in the English legal system – defamation and copyright. Briefly presents verdicts of actual cases from US and Australian law, and speculates on the outcomes of these cases had they been put before UK courts. work made by a fellow scientist on the Usenet public messa...

Zipf's law governs many features of the Internet. Observations of Zipf distributions, while interesting in and of themselves, have strong implications for the design and function of the Internet. The connectivity of Internet routers influences the robustness of the network while the distribution in the number of email contacts affects the spread of email viruses. Even web caching strategies are...

By definition, an essential question of cyberlaw is to define when law will affect actions in cyberspace. Such law might be uniform, such as where nations have entered into a treaty or have adopted the same legal rule. Or, such law might be diverse, such as where nations adopt different legal rules. Diversity of law often does not matter for physical acts, such as where the criminal law of one ...

This study examines law enforcement dilemmas in child pornography possession investigations in which no offender was arrested. A mail survey of US law enforcement agencies identified a sample of Internet child pornography possession cases where no arrest was made. Telephone surveys with law enforcement investigators were used to collect casespecific data and information on dilemmas in these inv...

The benefits of digitization of personal health information have been identified in many studies (Anderson and Agarwal 2011; Glaser et al. 2008; Noffsinger and Chin 2000). The studies suggest that such digitization can reduce medical errors and costs, improve patient safety and public health monitoring efficiency, and etc. However, the impact of healthcare privacy breaches on behavioral reactio...