...copyrighted material. He said that if Kazaa is to continue, its owners will have to ensure that new versions of the software filter out unlicensed copyrighted material, a task the judge said would be extremely difficult. Judge Wilcox stressed...

...requirement that critics fear would lead to harassment and possibly requests for bribes. Cafe owners also must install software filters - at about $400 each, or more than the average $300 monthly earnings of many cybercafes - to block pornography...

...the problem." He said better methods exist. Currently, the most popular means for controlling content involves software filters that block questionable sites. But filters are inexact, sometimes letting in porn while blocking innocuous content...

...technologies such as the V-chip for television sets, cable box locks, 900 telephone number blocking and Internet software filters that block objectionable Web sites. A day later, Gore announced that 15 of the United States' top Internet companies...

...to making certain sexual material available to minors online. The summit's goal: finding other ways, such as software filters, site ratings and more parental involvement, to make the Internet safe for children. Attending will be advocacy...

...com" storefronts, even as they set up shop in the new ".xxx" domain name, reducing the effectiveness of any software filters set up to simply block all ".xxx" names. Conservative groups such as the Family Research Council also expressed...

...they have no built-in mechanisms for authenticating senders, which allows spammers to easily forge headers. Software filters thus must be programmed to work on assumptions of spammer behavior. Some cull spam by identifying typical keywords...

...the problem." He said better methods exist. Currently, the most popular means for controlling content involves software filters that block questionable sites. But filters are inexact, sometimes letting in porn while blocking innocuous content...

...adviser, Larry Irving of the Commerce Department, recommended that parents be given high-tech tools, such as software filters, rather than a "static, imperfect solution" such as a new law. The last effort by Congress to limit pornography...

...Do you know your pages are being blocked by a software filter?' What it meant was that anyone who had installed...illustrates what critics say is a growing problem with software filters, which are installed on personal computers to block...