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21 Ent. & Sports Law. 1 (2003-2004)

handle is hein.journals/entspl21 and id is 1 raw text is: A PUBLICATION OF THE ABA FORUM ON THE ENTERTAINMENT AND SPORTS INDUSTRIES VOLUME 21, NUMBER 1 SPRING 2003 Is Virtual Kiddie Porn a Crime? By Joseph J. Beard peration Candyman,Operation Avalanche, Operation Cathedral - code names for military actions? In a way, they are.The war, how- ever, is not between nations but, rather, nations against national and international child pornography rings. In 1998, a worldwide raid under the auspices of Interpol targeted members of the pedophile Wonderland Club. In 2001, police in 19 countries took part in a coor- dinated crackdown on pedophile traffic on the Internet. In March 2002,Operation Candyman closed down an Internet-based child pornography ring in the United States and, most recently, in Operation OreBritish authorities arrested users of a child Intemet pornography site that offered files with names like Child Rape and Russian Underage! These are but four examples of the continuing war being waged against child pornographers around the world. The Internet has made possible the global distribution of child pornography on a scale unimaginable in the analog world of photographs transmitted by mail or other conventional means.The digital technology that has made the Net a reality has also raised the possibility of digitally Continued on page 20 Copyright vs. Consumers By Niels Schaumann rom the beginning, copyright has been driven by subversive technology. The forerunners of today's copyright laws go back to the invention of the printing press, with its unprecedented potential for spreading heresy and rebellion. Within our century, too, technology has had a tendency to undermine the estab- lished order. But rather than government or the church, today it is the content industries that are threatened. Film, radio, photocopiers, analog tape recorders, videocassette recorders, digital audio tape, CD burners, MP3 players - all have produced hand- wringing and predictions of imminent doom.And technological change is accelerat- ing, making content industries wish they could set back the technology clock. They have some reason to be concerned. It's quite obvious that copying in the digital world has become much easier, requiring only a mouse-click. More danger- ous still, multiple generations of copies don't degrade; a copy of a copy is indistin- guishable from the original. But in spite of all the recent attention paid to copying, Continued on page 24 Rap Music and the Culture of Fear By Barry Glassner hy are so many fears in the air and so many of them unfounded? Why, as crime rates plunged throughout the 1990s, did two-thirds of Americans believe they were soaring? How did it come about that by the mid- 1990s, 62 percent of us described ourselves as truly desperate about crime - almost twice as many as in the late 1980s, when crime rates were higher? Why, on a survey in 1997, when the crime rate had already fallen for a half dozen consecutive years, did more than half of us disagree with the statement This country is finally beginning to make some progress in solving the crime problem? In the late 1990s, the number of drug users had decreased by half compared to a decade earlier; almost two-thirds of high school seniors had never used any illegal drugs, even marijuana. So why did a majority of adults rank drug abuse as the great- Continued on page 17 Dealing with S ports Deals Is Anybody Record Biz Cybersquatting over in China Listening? Accounting

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