Word: illicitness
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What bothers Beijing most is that illicit gathering places exist at all. Less than one-quarter of China's 200,000 Internet cafes are licensed. Those that are officially approved are expected to spy on customers and report anyone who accesses banned sites. Although the Public Security Bureau has deployed a corps of Internet police to block surfers from offending websites, there's no way a few hundred officers can filter the whole Web and maintain blocks that stymie users for long. In less than three minutes, Chen is able to access a blocked Chinese news site, using a proxy...
...activists needed a nearly 30-ft. satellite dish plus about $1 million worth of equipment that would fire a perfectly tuned beam at Sinosat 1. Since two beams on the same frequency yield nothing but static, someone in Beijing had to shut down the official programming to let the illicit message through. The override was not a failure of Sinosat's encryption technology, says Ian Barnard, who runs China operations for the South African firm MIH, provider of the encryption software. So was it inept technicians? Or are there Falun Gong sympathizers somewhere in the state-run broadcasting industry...
...What bothers Beijing most is that illicit gathering places exist at all. There are about 46,000 licensed Internet caf?s in China, and all are required to monitor their customers by watching over their shoulders and blocking blacklisted Web pages. Although the Public Security Bureau has deployed a young corps of Internet police to block offending websites, there's no way a few hundred officers can filter all the pages on the Web and maintain blocks that stymie surfers for long. But the Internet police keep trying. According to the Hong Kong Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, Beijing...
...their book--which is written in alternating chapters, a lovely duet--the couple notably break the code against frankness about sex, describing in detail their sojourns through the bedrooms of New York. "Sex before marriage remained vaguely illicit for members of my generation," writes Kaplan. "This gave it an extra thrill--the thrill of 'sneaky sex.' We were cat burglars of pleasure." However, their sexual adventurousness ended at the altar, the couple say: their long marriage has been monogamous...
...owned the DVDs, but "he broke a protective device in order to gain access to computer data." Perhaps, says Johansen's lawyer, Halvor Manshaus, but that's not illegal under Norwegian law. Copyright statutes even allow copying if it's not for financial gain. "It certainly isn't illicit to access a film he has a right to view," he says. That will change. Johansen's work violates the European Copyright Directive, which makes it illegal to break into a mechanism to gain access to copyrighted work. But the directive will not be implemented in Norway and across...