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...major step toward that goal came, last December, when a wave of ISPs began offering completely free access. Today Brazilians can choose from a number of free ISPs, including one, Catolico.com.br owned by a Roman Catholic diocese. Another free ISP, iG.com.br expected a television-ad blitz to bring in 60,000 applicants over three months. Instead, the company got 940,000 in eight weeks. "The consumers were more ready for this than we were," says iG vice president Matinas Suzuki...
...making punishment by American authorities a pipe dream. Second, it's almost impossible to prevent a site that has been blocked from quickly changing its web address and resuming operations. Third, there are considerable complications caused by varying gambling regulations in the 50 states. For example, how can an ISP differentiate between in-state or out-of-state bettors making an online wager in a state where pari-mutual betting is legal...
...bill: conservatives who see gambling as a sin and who say the bill needs tightening, and liberals, who say it is both unenforceable and a violation of their First Amendment rights. For instance, say spokespeople from the Family Research Council and the Christian Coalition, even if an ISP blocks the majority of online gambling sites, that won't keep compulsive gamblers or children from surfing over to the legal, state-regulated sites. The FRC and Christian Coalition's concerns over the bill's inadequacies are joined by similar complaints from the Justice Department. On the liberal side, a spokesperson...
...perhaps because they were understandably suspicious of the question, they replied yes. And now when they try to fire up a connection to, say, Mindspring or AT&T or UUNET or any other Net-service provider, their AOL dial-up muscles in and blocks access to their old ISP. Some 7 million of AOL's 21 million subscribers have upgraded to 5.0. While no one knows how many of them are afflicted, it was apparently enough to attract lawyers...
...edge after the Microsoft revelations won't be kind if they think fellow computer giant AOL is playing dirty. "This maneuver is really aggressive on the part of AOL," says TIME senior editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "These guys hold a larger share of the market than all the other ISPs combined, and they have to behave responsibly." As new Internet users bang their heads against their keyboards in desperation, the last thing they want to worry about is whether their service provider is going to infiltrate their hard drive in some vaguely suspicious way. "This behavior hits people...