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SCL Annual Conference, Edinburgh, 21 November
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cmars@essex.ac.uk
Chris Marsden,. Director, ITME LL.M. Essex
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] Internet 0.0
] The pre-
pre-commercial Internet to 1993
] Web 1.0
] The Internet boom and bust 1994-
1994-2002
] From Netscape to Yahoo! to WorldCom to Enron
] Web 2.0
] The social networking web 2003-
2003-
] From Google to Wikipedia to MySpace to Facebook
] Web 3.0
] Mobile, ubiquitous web 2008-
2008-
] From Twitter to semantic web
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] Access 1.0
] Dial--up, from 9600baud to 56Kb/s
Dial
] Access 2.0
] Broadband from 2xISDN to ADSL
] Access 3.0
] xDSL to Ethernet by fibre
] But universities and businesses have had 3.0
since the late 1990s
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] 1.0: Terrestrial Television
] Dominant until 1990s, renewed digital dominance
2000s
] 2.0: Satellite TV
] Pay--TV dominant until now, Free Sat launched 2008
Pay
] 3.0: IPTV
] Emerging as the only interactive platform that
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] Pong and Frogger 1980
] Simple TV-
TV- and PC-
PC-based games
] Playstation 1990s
] Console--based games
Console
] World of Warcraft 2000s
] MMORPGs
] Truly interactive games
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] In the beginning was the word«

] Web was text and graphics

] Web2.0 remains the same ² with rubbish

YouTube and drowning Skype

] Web 3.0 ² video and voice truly integrated, voice

prompt, video calling, new idiot-
idiot-box?
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] Spam is so 1980«.
] Its direct marketing, and its annoying but effective
] Spyware, malware, cookies are so 1990s
] Update your viruses, report security incidents
] Zombie gangs (botnets) are so 2000s
] Good ISPs can police them
] 2009: phishing and email-
email-born viruses are the
future
] Google SMTP relaying
  

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] Gambling and pornography
] 2001 Counci lof Europe Cybercrime Convention
] US gambling issue live 2005-
2005-7
] UK ¶child· pornography issue alive now
] It is illegal to depict a 17-
17-year-
year-old
] Manga is illegal in UK
] Where does the line get drawn next?
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] Regulation to censor can be expensive!

] BBC is best of breed ² moderates all chat
] AOL, MSN, BT following
] 90%+ of UK ISPs filter the CAIC list

] Rating of computer games and websites

] Byron Review of 2008
] EC to follow with Ofcom implementation of
] Audio Visual Media Services Directive
] E-Commerce Directive revision from 2010

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] Consumer expectation remains the same
] Security
] Dumb medium
] Protection of 37% of households with minors

] Business expectation remains the same

] Reliability, low cost, evolution, competitiveness
] Government expectation remains the same
] Ignorance, self-
self-regulation, over-
over-reaction, ´protect
the childrenµ (which is this case means 50 year olds)
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] More censorship of ISPs as intermediaries
] E-Commerce Directive
] Anti
Anti--terror laws
] Copyright lobby

] More censorship of new intermediaries

] Google and search engines
] Video portals
] Games providers
] Gambling sites
] Social networking sites ² c.f. Germany and Nazis
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] Privacy
] ¶Every Child Counts·
] National Identity scheme
] PHORM
] Google: YouTube, GMail, Search, Blogger, Froogle

] Pornography
] Extreme, teenage, computer-
computer-generated, online
photos
] Will government start tracking your hard drive?
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] Required by law
] Filtering CAIC list
] Anti
Anti--terrorist
] Copyright liability

] Libel laws

] Encouraged by market
] Bit tax
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070619-the-youtube-effect-http-traffic-now-eclipses-p2p.html

Ellacoya on HTTP:
45% web pages;
36% streaming
video
20% YouTube
5% audio
9% newsgroups
 

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] P2P, newsgroups, and HTTP: the vast majority
of Internet traffic is non-
non-critical
] To ensure priority transmission of VoIP calls,
traditional web pages, medical imaging, etc.,
] strong incentive to throttle flood of non-
non-critical
traffic when the network is under pressure
] Conflicts with proponents of network neutrality!
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