Volume III

Issue : 2: January 27, 2005

• Court Dismisses Action against ISP for Suspending User Account
• File Swapping Arrest first in Hong Kong
• Spam Complainant sued for Tortuous Interference and Defamation
• U.S. Appeals Court Upholds Web casting Rates
• Ohio Court Initiates Online Posting of Videos of Court Proceedings
• Internet Tobacco Sales New York Moves to Tax Sales and Online Retailer Indicted
• Copyright Collective to seek Levy on MP3 players from Supreme Court
• Rhode Island Decides to Licence Canadian Online Pharmacies
• Canadian Government Claims U.S. Court Decision in RIM Litigation Threatens Canadian Business
• U.S. Plans to Track Visitors with RFID Chips

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Internet Tobacco Sales New York Moves to Tax Sales and Online Retailer Indicted

New York City's finance department has sent letters to 3,700 smokers asking them to pay over $1.3 million in city taxes from Internet tobacco purchases. A spokeswoman for the department stated that the annual loss to the city from online tobacco sales totals $40 million. Meanwhile, a Marion County grand jury indicted Otamedia S.A., the world's largest Internet retailer of cigarettes, on charges of racketeering, engaging in business as a cigarette distributor without a license, unlawful distribution of cigarettes, computer crime and failure to comply with tobacco delivery sales requirements by selling tobacco products to minors. Otamedia S.A. is the second Internet retailer indicted by the Oregon Tobacco Tax Compliance Task Force.

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