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Show The Salt Lake Tribune BUSINESS Eg Copyright act raises privacy issue Consumer News Marriott to offer fast Internet access IP address: Attorney says court misinterpreted digital lawthat protects the recording industry By the end of the year, Marri. ott International Inc., the largest U.S. hotel company, will offer free high-speed Internet access at its midprice hotels including By Karuy GurcHigk The Salt Lake Tribune Renaissancehotels. Guests at those hotels “don’t mind pay. ing,” he said. Bloomberg News perjury by falsely claiming the information is needed to track down 9 copyright i could be threatened, she said. Ease in obtaining an IP address could make easy “An IP [address] is like a temporary telephone number,” that is issued an Internet user and recycled and given to someoneelse whenthe previous usersigns off. Under the ruling, the court found that the S-year-old Digital Millennium Copyright Act could be used to subpoena an Internet service providerfor the identity of a person whoallegedly downloaded songs. It allows a party that believes a copyright violation occurred to pay a fee andfill out a form indicating the information being subpoenaed will be used solely to enforce copyright laws. Lying on the form is considered perjury. Someone who wants to track down an- panel discussion at the Conference of Western Attorneys General. District Court. vacy, an attorney said Tuesday. guests $9.95 a day for the Internet connection, spokesman Scott Carman said. The companywill continue charging for the highspeed Internet accessat the more expensive Marriott and other party badly enough is not going to be deterred knowing he or she is committing fraught with problems, attorney Parry Aftab of wiredsafety.org said during a load songs could threaten consumerpri clude TownePlace Suites and SpringHill Suites. The Bethesda, Md.-based company’s 500 Fairfield Inns will offer the service by the endof 2004 Some travelers choose their dustry, giving out an Internet Protocol oP address without a judge's oversight is vice providers to be subpoenaed as a way earlier this year that allows Internet ser- hotel based on the availability of the high-speed access, the companysaid. Marriott, which cut its 2008 profit forecast last week, is battling for customers during a three-year period of reduced business-travel spendingby cor- out who you are and what you're doing.” to flush out customers whoillegally down: Residence Inn and Courtyard by Marriott. Marriott will offer the service at 1,200 hotels, whichalso in: In brief However, while copyright —_ is a scary problem for the Her organization contends the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is a good law that has been misinterpreted bythe U.S. PARK CITY — federal court ruling Utan BUSINESS “When you combinedate, time and IP address, your [Internet service provider] can figure out which of their subscribers was online doing what,” she said. “That helps us find the child pornographers, the sexual molesters and all the others by finding out when they're talking to your kids butthe bad thingis... people can find ~“ = 1 i ip Your MonEy porations. Marriott currently charges Wednesday, July 30,2003 it. It’s not only the privacy of children that marks of anyone. “We need to make sure that women who are running away from people who batter them and their children can’t be found” because someonefigured out their where- abouts after they used the Internetto seek help, she said, citing another example of potential abuse. What is needed is a wayto protect of the deal, E & S will provide an image generator, display system copyright owners while keeping people and other components andservices. Hava will manufacture and supply the simulator. safe in cyberspace, she said. She encourages people to contact their congressional representatives and sena- tors at http://www.congress.gov. kgurchiek@sltrib.com ,; Delta Air Lines said it will providedaily nonstop service from Salt Lake City and Saturday-only nonstop service WorldCom probe touches on rootofphonefeuds from Atlanta to Colorado's SteamboatSki Resort Area for the 2008/2004 ski season. Nonstop flights between Salt Lake By Bruce MEYERSON an analyst for Giga Information Group. “These charges represent about40 per- ‘The Associated Press NEW YORK — Thefederal probe into allegations that WorldCom avoided millions of dollars in fees normally paid to local phone companies for connecting long- distance calls cuts to the heart of oneofthe Odwalla phasing out mostbitter, long-running feuds in thetelecommunications industry. The fees have represented a huge Fresh Samantha line source of revenueforlocal carriers and a PORTLAND,Maine — The line. Odwalla Inc., of Half Moon Bay, Calif., bought Saco-based Fresh Samantha three years ago try analyst, estimating that long distance companiespayan access fee of about halfa cent per minute on both ends ofevery interstate call. Price wars haveleft long-distance companies desperate to cut costs. It was that sort of desperation that helped drive WorldCom downa path of deception: First came an $11 billion accounting fraud that painted a picture ofprofitability by masking daily operating expenses like Officials are also investigating a com- through April 4, 2004. Passengers will travel on 128-seat Boe- plaint by AT&T that WorldCom, which is seeking to renameitself MCI, also tried to masklong-distance calls by routing them ing 737-300 aircraft. through Canada and back into the United States on AT&T's network. Inc., a WestValley City-based With the controversy threatening its bid to emerge from bankruptcy, World- providerofaudio- and videoconferencing systems, has ex- ClearOne Communications Com announced Tuesday thatit has hired the Washingtonlaw firm Gibson, Dunn & panded distributionof its conferencing products in the Asia Crutcher to lead a review of the company’s handling of call routing andaccess fees. been cut since the early days of longdistance business, “the fees are still the the local access fees. Now, federal prosecutors are investigating whether the tion in their campaign to persuade federal authorities that WorldCom does not de- Pacific region with the addition offour new distributors. The distributors include Media-Go Engineering in Hong Kong, MTC in Japan, ESCO Audio Vi- single greatest expense that any long- bankrupt companyhas tried to reviveits serve to compete with a slate freshly sual in Singapore, and DA- distancecarrier incurs,” said Lisa Pierce, fortunes by masking long-distance calls as cleaned ofdebt and scandal. huge cost of doing business for longdistance providers. Although local access charges have California-based company that bought the Fresh Samantha juice companyhas pulled the plug on the Fresh Samantha cent of the long distance cost structure,” said Rex Mitchell, an independentindus- local calls, which require only a minimal access charge to connect. Butrivals haveseized on the investiga- COMSTechnology in Taiwan. 4 ~~ for stock worth an estimated $27 millionatthe time. 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