RM65mil cyber fund fraud case the first in Malaysia :: LOCAL ::

There is a case of internet investment fraud in Malaysia involving cyber fund manager who has been operating over the cyber world without a license. He became the country's first man to be charged in a court for an Internet investment scam involving RM65mil. Unpredictably, there are more than 100 Malaysians had invested over a period of three months. If convicted, he can be fined a maximum of RM1mil or jailed up to 10 years under Section 15C of the Securities Industry Act 1983. The case is still on hold which the judge fixed five days from Nov 3 for his trial after the prosecution.

URL: http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Crime/Story/A1Story20080301-52197.html

Comment:

The internet fraud criminal can also be categorized as white collar crime because a lot of internet fraud cases committed by persons at managerial and executive levels as they has a skills and expertise in computer. In this case, close observation for those in these positions are necessary as they are more prone to committing such crimes because of the opportunities available to them by virtue of their positions.

Nowadays, issues related to financial crime, fraud and corruption were a major concern to the government. Internet fraud in Malaysia becoming worst and more serious as between January and August this year, the Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) estimated the loss from various financial crimes at RM546,114,099. As for the whole of last year, the loss relating internet fraud was reported at RM1,988,959,883. It means more then RM1 trillion lost to white collar crime as a whole.

For example, people in highest level in the company which have the authority to enter the system or database must be responsible towards their capability of accessing the company’s information and make sure all the data or information is safe and clean. People with unethical manner intentionally take benefits of their position by altering computer input in an unauthorized way, altering, destroying, suppressing, or stealing output, usually to conceal unauthorized transactions, altering or deleting stored data, altering or misusing existing system tools or software packages, or altering or writing code for fraudulent purposes.

Thus, The development of the Multimedia Super Corridor and the creation of a legal and regulatory framework encompassing, amongst other things, the Communications and Multimedia Act, the Computer Crimes Act and the Digital Signatures Act could reduce the crime over the internet.

Internet Censorship in China :: GLOBAL ::

Internet censorship in China is among the most stringent in the world. The government tend to monitor and control how its citizens use the internet.The government also monitors and citizen volunteers regularly sweep through blogs, chat forums, and even e-mail to ensure nothing challenges the country's self-styled "harmonious society." they also blocked many website relating to entertainment, news, pornography and many more.

URL: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1885961,00.html

Comment:

From my point of view, this seems not to be a good idea and unfair as for the China Government to limit the information retrieved from the internet. Nowadays, Internet is the centralize of information gathering from anyone all over the world. It means internet holds a vasts number of information that might be useful for any reason or purpose. The government developed the boundaries of retrieving or viewing information freely.

Each human have their right to surf and to access any source or information on the internet as long as they didn't harm and stay respect of other people, company and government. Such a move will be ineffective in a borderless world where information flows freely. It would also lead to dissatisfaction among people because they have a rights to access any information on the internet and its only the matter of how ethical is the internet user.

Apart from that, If they they keep censoring more websites, its going to scare investors as they would think twice before investing in China. This could hinder the growth of economy. The investors would be taking out their money and invest it on another country such as Singapore , Thailand , Philippines and even Indonesia. This would be really bad for China.

Chinese people is like trap in their own country. Citizens are hardly to communicate with other outside the country since the government monitor and citizen volunteers regularly sweep through blogs, chat forums, and even e-mail to ensure nothing challenges the country's self-styled "harmonious society." Means, there are no more privacy to Chinese people.

The government should take this into consideration. They should think of allows their citizen to be rich with information retrieved from the internet as well as get the right to access any accessible material as long as they act in ethical manner and doesn't harm any people. They need to develop a self-regulatory to each of citizen to make sure they act in a good ethical behavior on the internet and develop a strong legislation that concern about internet censorship in China.

Internet Censorship :: LOCAL ::

Well, all of a sudden and out of the blues our Information Minister, Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim wants to formulate a filter whereby its possible to block undesirable Web sites, on the grounds of maintaining racial harmony in the multicultural nation and to prevent our children from watching pornographic material through the Internet.

URL: http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200908060519dowjonesdjonline000453&title=malaysia-considers-china-style-internet-censor

Today, The Government will not censor the Internet as such a move will be ineffective in a borderless world where information flows freely, said the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. It would also lead to dissatisfaction among people because they have a rights to access any information on the internet and its only the matter of how ethical is the internet user.

URL: http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/8/7/nation/20090807143305&sec=nation

Comment:

Now , what happens if they try to filter the Internet. They could do it in several ways. Force users to use their own dial-up client or software which automatically filters from both software and hardware side , or they could do it in hardware side – whereby they would install filters which would do their job).

Now my question is why should the government spend on taxpayers money in installing such a filter in a large scale ? Wouldn’t it be better if the money is used to upgrade infrastructures of Malaysian Internet such as providing a speedy connection and not to mention widen broadband coverage zone. If the government think that pornographic materials are indeed bad for our society. They should at least educate parents and also children the adverse effects of it.

Apart from that , I truly believe that its the parents responsibility to install filters to block pornographic web-site. Let’s face it , all modern day operating systems such as Windows Vista (and the up-coming Windows 7) and as well as MacOS X comes along with parental control. On top of that even anti-virus , firewall and internet security solution which would do the trick. Parents should starting playing their role instead of just leaving it to the government or to someone else to take care of their children’s pornographic addiction.

Lastly but not least , it contradicts MSC's Bill of Guarantee whereby there wouldn’t be any kind of Internet censorship. If you would like to read more about MSC Bill of Guarantee , I would suggest you to head up to MSC site and read all about it. Its better to learn about it .

Student Copyright Case :: GLOBAL ::

As the technological changes rapidly, amount of user who misuse the computer by connecting to a network increasing as well. Student are more likely to find an easiest way to complete their assignment.

In high technology on communication and multimedia world, there is a company who has developed a system that allows student's work to be check either its original or its has been plagiarized. The system is really helpful for the lecture as the lecturer submitted student's work into a database and tracking student who involved in plagiarism.



Comment:

Copyright is product that has a human creativity. It develop by individual that has include elements of eligible work, originality and material form or fixation in their work. The product that has fulfilled the requirement shall be entitled copyright automatically. The product owner's are given legal protection and remedy against unlawful and non consented exploitation.

With the convergence of technological era, it allows student to access any accessible material on the internet and student take advantage of the technology by simply cut and paste the content into their assignment, compile it and assume that is their original work. This is inappropriate and unethical for student to do such thing on their work or assignment.

The system introduced seems to be practical to use in order to track any plagiarism work done by student or anyone. Now, plagiarizer can easily be found by a simple click. It is best to implement in to education sector around to reduce student who plagiarized in their work as well as develop a quality student.

In Malaysia Copyright Act 1998, if a student are convicted of such offense which committed plagiarism and selling or publishing or distributing it, they can be penalize not more than RM10,000 fine or not more than 5 years imprisonment or both. If a student committed plagiarism but for the purpose of their own use and not publishing it and making money from it, means that student are not guilty of such offense. He or she didn't attempt any crime in cyberspace.

It is necessary for each individual to be responsible and honest in any work they attempted to do. Work must be original and does not involve any elements of plagiarism because if your work do have those elements, it can easily be track by using a new system of tracking plagiarize work.
and you will get an extra "mark" by you lecture or boss.

Trade Mark Use on the Internet – A Malaysian Perspective :: LOCAL ::

In order to ensure the validity of a trade mark, it is a requirement that the owner of the mark put their trade mark to use to indicate a connection in the course of trade to the goods or services applied for. While there are no decided court cases in Malaysia on the subject of use of a trade mark over the Internet as yet, decisions under the new Malaysian Dispute Resolution Procedure (MYDRP) are a useful guide to how the Malaysian courts may approach this issue. The MYDRP is modeled closely on ICANN’s UDRP and disputes under the MYDRP are heard by the Panelists at the Regional Centre for Arbitration Kuala Lumpur (RCAKL). The MYDRP governs only “.com.my” websites. Recent Panel decisions such as NEP Holdings (Malaysia) Bhd. v Liew Bin Dian t/a C & C Network and Volkswagen Group Singapore Pte. Ltd. v Webmotion Design have both made reference to the trade mark on the Internet. These decisions signify a trend towards accepting use over the Internet as “use” for trade mark purposes, as far as domain name disputes are concerned.

However, if the web server is located outside the relevant jurisdiction or the website has a country specific ccTLD or the website simply caters to another jurisdiction, the answer may be different. In the UK case of 800-Flowers Trade Mark it was held that a globally accessible website does not prima facie constitute use in the trade mark sense within the United Kingdom. The case further held that the question of use would very much depend on the circumstances, particularly the intentions of the website proprietor and what the average visitor comprehends upon accessing the website. Trade mark owners should note that the 800-Flowers case suggests that the provision of interactive facilities by the website owner may constitute use. If a consumer accesses a website and orders goods or services as a result of the advertisement or information on the website, this could arguably amount to use of the mark. This reasoning was also followed in the subsequent case of Euromarket Designs Incorporated v Peters & Anor.

©patrick mirandah co.

URL:http://www.mirandah.com/Trade_Mark_Use_on_the_Internet_%E2%80%93_A_Malaysian_Perspective.aspx

11 Cases Taken To Court Under Communications And Multimedia Act

Eleven cases have been taken to court under Section 211 and Section 233 of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 involving fines amounting to RM24,500 from last year until now.

Information Communication and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said they consisted of six cases of posting comments insulting the Sultan of Perak (eight individuals); sending vulgar/obscene SMS (3); sending obscene e-mail (1) and sending obscene/vulgar comment (1).

He said that in the case of insulting the Sultan of Perak, an individual had pleaded guilty and was fined RM10,000 while five cases (seven individuals) were waiting for trial.

URL: http://blogs.iium.edu.my/ka_mokhtar/2009/10/21/11-cases-taken-to-court-under-communications-and-multimedia-act/

Comment:

In opinion, Malaysia is a country managed by its own government and each of its states is ruled by respective sultans. Refering to the above case, all individuals that were involved in the act should be taken to task as the offence that they had committed mainly falls under the Sedition Act 1948 which is then narrowed down to Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 due to the devices and methods used.

In fact, sultans were given its own statutory powers and rights in the country even before independence was declared. In return, we as a citizen should have the sense of respect, loyalness and ethical values to our own ruler in memory of their contribution to the country as well as our given pledged.

Furthermore, This does not only apply to our own government or ruler but also to one another in assuring a peaceful and harmonious multi-racial country to live in. We as a human who live in a huge society must have respect to each other.

Finally, such offense is a serious matter as citizen must show respect towards leader. We as a citizen has our own role to make to make sure our country is safe and peace. As well as to prevent those matter to occur again.

Court Order Google to Turn Over Youtube Data :: GLOBAL ::

Almost every person who use the internet has one time over another watch the video on Youtube. In April alone, 82 million Americans viewed over 4 billion clips on the website. In this case, Viacom winning the lawsuit against Youtube owner of Google forcing the company to hand over its record of what people are watching on Youtube. Invasion of privacy or this is necessary legal tool?

Comment:

In my opinion, by giving away user's information, it will resulted in privacy disaster. For me it is not necessary to settle the case. Frankly, i don't know who would use the internet and use the tools anymore if they knew every time they access someone else would know about it.

The court are allow to access to private data. That means user no longer exist anonymously on the internet world. They can't just hide behind the computer and assume there is no consequences of what they do. The big company, Viacom, claiming that people were violating and infringing upon their intellectual property right that is why Viacom bring the case to court forcing Google to reveal user's record.

By law, the data user must reveal data to the 3rd party if and only if the defendant found guilty of such offenses and it is a court order to reveal the data. In this case, resulted in Viacom winning the lawsuit against Youtube owner of Google forcing the company to hand over its record of what people are watching on Youtube.

Besides that, it is necessary to hand over the record if they have a really strong reason on the purpose of collecting data such as for the purpose of upgrading and enhancing the system and security, buying and selling purposes, developing a new competitive product relating to business environment, and legal issues.

Finally, it is okay and considerable to hand over only data of individual who committed to such offense and keep respect of as well as not involving other data privacy.