Criminal sanctions are generally aimed at serious counterfeiting activity, but are now becoming more commonplace as copyright collectives such as the RIAA are increasingly targeting the file sharing home Internet user.

During the early 1990s the IETF changed institutional form from an activity of the U. S. government to an independent, international activity associated with the Internet Society.

Like IPv4, IPv6 supports globally unique static IP addresses, which can be used to track a single device's Internet activity.

The use of ephemeral addresses makes it difficult to accurately track a user's Internet activity by scanning activity streams for a single IPv6 address.

Conventions, clubs, and fanzines were the dominant form of fan activity, or " fanac ", for decades, until the Internet facilitated communication among a much larger population of interested people.

The digitisation of information and the associated pervasiveness of the Internet are facilitating a new intensity in the application of knowledge to economic activity, to the extent that it has become the predominant factor in the creation of wealth.

Backscatter, a technique used to observe denial-of-service attack activity in the Internet, relies on attackers ' use of IP spoofing for its effectiveness.

Sociologists engaged in the study of the Internet have determined that someday, a distinction between online and real-life worlds may seem " quaint ", noting that certain types of online activity, such as sexual intrigues, have already made a full transition to complete legitimacy and " reality ".

Using Tor makes it more difficult to trace Internet activity, including " visits to Web sites, online posts, instant messages and other communication forms ", back to the user.

Gangs are using the Internet to communicate with each other, facilitate criminal activity, spread their message and culture around the nation.

As Internet pages like MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, AIM, and Facebook become more popular, law enforcement works to understand how to conduct investigations related to gang activity in an online environment.

Therapists report a growing number of patients addicted to this activity, a form of both Internet addiction and sexual addiction, with the standard problems associated with addictive behavior.

Computer surveillance is the act of performing surveillance of computer activity, and of data stored on a hard drive or being transferred over the Internet.

Computer surveillance programs are widespread today, and almost all Internet traffic is closely monitored for clues of illegal activity.

Some in vitro studies demonstrate an anti-bacterial effect of colloidal silver, although one study in 2004 of a colloidal silver solution marketed on the Internet showed no such antimicrobial activity.

It is compared to ' lean-back ' experience of seeing traditional movies, refers to the Internet activity of sharing and viewing a short video, mostly less than 15 minutes.

Contemporary use can particularly refer to a beginner or new user of computers, often concerning Internet activity, such as online gaming or Linux use.

Some in vitro studies demonstrate an antibacterial effect of colloidal silver, although one study in 2004 of a colloidal silver solution marketed on the Internet showed no such antimicrobial activity.

In the 21st century, the Dormant Commerce Clause has been a frequent legal issue in cases arising under state laws regulating some aspects of Internet activity.

The Internet Affairs Bureau deals with Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China and represses " disruptive "( anti-Chinese government ) activity on the web in mainland China.

The information the IAO would gather includes Internet activity, credit card purchase histories, airline ticket purchases, car rentals, medical records, educational transcripts, driver's licenses, utility bills, tax returns, and other available data.

The Internet is an essential tool of amateur astronomers.

With the development of fast Internet in the last part of the 20th century along with advances in computer controlled telescope mounts and CCD cameras ' Remote Telescope ' astronomy is now a viable means for amateur astronomers not aligned with major telescope facilities to partake in research and deep sky imaging.

The digital data collected by the telescope is then transmitted and displayed to the user by means of the Internet.

An example of a digital remote telescope operation for public use via the Internet is the The Bareket Observatory.

A relatively recent role for amateur astronomers is searching for overlooked phenomena ( e. g., Kreutz Sungrazers ) in the vast libraries of digital images and other data captured by Earth and space based observatories, much of which is available over the Internet.

Australian English ( AusE, AuE, AusEng, en-AU < ref > is the language code for Australian English, as defined by ISO standards ( see ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ) and Internet standards ( see IETF language tag ).</ ref >) is a major variety of the English language and is used throughout Australia.

* ram – a text file that contains a link to the Internet address where the RealAudio file is stored.

The vast array of material on spiritual movements, anarchism, libertarian socialism and the Green Movement that is now available on the Internet has been perhaps more influential than any printed book.

The American Registry for Internet Numbers ( ARIN ) is the Regional Internet Registry ( RIR ) for Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States.

ARIN is one of five Regional Internet Registries ( RIRs ) in the world.

Membership is not required to participate in ARIN ’ s policy development process or to apply for Internet number resources.

Many file archivers employ archive formats that provide lossless data compression to reduce the size of the archive which is often useful for transferring a large number of individual files over a high latency network like the Internet.

The President of the ACM for 2012 – 2014 is Vint Cerf, an American computer scientist, who is recognized as one of " the fathers of the Internet ".

Today, Internet forums occupy much of the same social and technological space as BBSes did, and the term BBS is often used to refer to any online forum or message board.

The " Belarusian Internet " is widely called ByNet ( Байнет ) ( as an analogue of Runet ).

Internet access in Belarus is predominantly urban, with 60 percent of users living in the capital Minsk.

The profile of the average Internet user is male, university educated, living in the capital, and working in a state enterprise.

Russian is the most widely used language by Belarusians on the Internet, followed by Belarusian, English, and Polish.

Internet access is limited and expensive though telephone service is good.

Subsequent entries discussed the chaotic postwar economy, and a June 1, 2003, post appeared to celebrate an anarchist effort, centered in the western Al-Adel Neighborhood of Baghdad, to provide free Internet access to all of Iraq.

In the 1990s, a new boom centered around more personal ways of communication, such as radio shows, Original Video Animation, television quizzes, public events and the Internet, gave way to the publication of the first dedicated voice acting magazines, and Voice Animage.

" A less radical view along these same lines is that people are taking advantage of the Internet to produce a grassroots globalization, one that is anti-neoliberal and centered on people rather than the flow of capital.

The suit, which centered on Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system and the company's contractual restrictions imposed on personal computer manufacturers to tie the operating system to its Internet Explorer browser, was eventually merged with a federal case brought by the United States Department of Justice ( DOJ ) under Attorney General Janet Reno.

Rockstar Studios released software centered on FreePPP and Open Transport PPP though the late ’ 90s then changed its name to Rockstar Software and it changed its focus to Microsoft Windows based Internet account setup software.

Some of his testimony centered on whether Internet Explorer could be removed as stated by Felten or not.