Institute for Internet Policy & Law @ Beijing Normal University

The users of MSN v.8.1 discover that they can actually access the information of their friends’ friends. By clicking the icon of a contact, a user may access the circle of the friends of that contact. MSN denied this and insisted the loophole can be fixed.

http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2007-06-07/04221549563.shtml

With only 10% of the Internet penetration in the whole population, China is now developing the broadband network to bridge the digital divide. One interesting characteristic of the Chinese broadband traffic is that peer-to-peer transmission occupies almost a half. The Chinese peer-to-peer traffic has become several times of American broadband traffic. These features means, on one hand, China has a great potential for Web 2.0 services; on the other, Internet piracy has become extremely serious.

http://tech.sina.com.cn/t/2007-06-06/00401547188.shtml

The MII officials have announced that P2P transmission will not be blocked but should be utilized reasonably.

http://tech.sina.com.cn/t/2007-06-07/04131549559.shtml

A Compulsory Standard for Digital TVs are supposed to be implemented on August 1, 2007. However, the Standard that actually merged two existing standards developed by Tsinghua and Jiaotong University respectively is still not supported by any chip or equipment. Without the hardware support, the implementation is going to be empty. This is going to be another compulsory standard after WAPI for wireless network connection.

http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/2007-06-05/04111544962.shtml

This is the slogan on the board held high by a protesters when Bill Gates delivered his speech at Beijing University. The protester claims to be the chief representative of Linux Professional Institute (LPI). To strive for open source software, he changed his name from Wang Yang into Wang OpenSource. Microsoft responded that they respect every one’s right of speech.

This is tenth visit of Mr. Gates to China. He just received a honorary PhD from Tsinghua University.

http://news.sina.com.cn/c/p/2007-04-20/110312826613.shtml;

http://tech.sina.com.cn/gates_china/index.html

Early discovery of the suspected backdoor in Windows XP Professional version reveals the urgency of implementation of open source and regulation of governmental procurement.

http://news.wenxuecity.com/messages/200706/news-gb2312-415397.html

Since 1990s, every April has been a month of “war of words” between the USA and China on IPR disputes. In these years, angry rhetoric of discontent could be heard from both parties. But either party had ever meant business. They either commenced a new round of negotiation or threatened to each other with trade sanctions. Eventually, the disputes would end up in compromise. This year is different. USA filed the complaint against China to the WTO, specifically alleging China for ineffective IPR enforcement and restriction of importation of American culture products. Chinese government has declared that the US’s action will seriously damage the trade relationship between the two countries. The disputes, in the WTO dispute settlement procedure, is in 60-day of negotiation period. If no agreement cannot be reached, the disputes would have to be decided by a panel.

http://finance.sina.com.cn/j/20070410/14093488196.shtml

China used the first provision of the TRIPS to defend itself.

http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2007-06-09/182613191693.shtml

60-day negotiation period expired, no agreement was reached. On August 31, US applied to set up a panel to solve the dispute. The Panel might be set up in October 2007.

http://finance.sina.com.cn/j/20070831/05143934387.shtml