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...calls himself the King of All Media, but in his three decades of radio broadcasting he has also earned a more dubious crown: the King of All Fines. Stern, who hosted his last FM-radio show on Friday, has cost stations that carry his program nearly $3 million in FCC penalties for indecency. He didn?t help his cause when in 1992 he infamously declared on the air that he hoped the prostate cancer of an FCC commissioner would spread through his body. ?When I get angry and really fired up... I will say vicious things,? he told 60 Minutes...
...make calls via their cable or DSL modems. Law-enforcement snoops can't tap into conversations or identify the location of callers, even with court orders authorizing surveillance. Given that the number of Internet phone users is expected to triple this year, to 2.8 million, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week responded to a petition from the FBI and other agencies by requiring most VOIP providers to install within 18 months software that allows authorized law enforcement to wiretap conversations. Industry leader Vonage, which controls a majority of the VOIP market, is on track to enable such wiretaps...
...gaps remain. The FCC ruling does not apply to peer-to-peer calls made between two computers without a third-party provider. And the FCC has yet to resolve the issue of identifying the location of callers using VOIP. A Justice Department spokesman praised the FCC's announcement as an "important first step" but asked for "prompt action on the remaining issues." --By Brian Bennett
...government prosecutors. "How will sources believe that journalists can keep their word?" he asked. But others pointed out that Time Inc. had run out of venues to fight the case. "Time Inc. fought this as hard as anyone could, with great lawyers, at great expense," said Newton Minow, former FCC chairman and professor emeritus at Northwestern University School of Law. "Once that happens, you have to obey...
...Alaska Senator Ted Stevens is seeking to apply the same decency standards the FCC applies to network broadcast television to cable television. To which many erudite, knowledgeable people are responding, 'F___ that guy.' That was a quote from Socrates...