Features

• Online fraud hurting e-commerce adoption: Australian Retailers Association

  Merchants, not consumers, banks or credit-card providers, are the hardest hit by online fraud.

• AFP hits $6 million identity fraud syndicate

  The Australian Federal Police (AFP) claims to have struck a major blow to a multi-million identity fraud syndicate.

• EBay defends online ticket resales

  EBay has defended its policies on the reselling of event tickets on its site following the mass posting of AC/DC tickets on its site just hours after the tickets went on sale, and promptly sold out, yesterday.

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  Ticketek Thunderstruck by AC/DC ticket sales demand

  Online ticket sales site Ticketek was this morning paralysed by demand for tickets to AC/DC’s Black Ice Australian tour, which went on sale this morning at 9am.

• New obscenity charges raise questions in Internet Age

  A long-standing court test using community standards to determine whether adult content is criminally obscene has been a potential problem area for the US pornography industry. But a debate that's been largely abstract for years has recently changed as the US Department of Justice successfully prosecuted two Web site operators for obscenity.

• Minding Online Store a Case of 'Not My Job'

  Last month, a federal judge ruled that eBay had fulfilled its obligations to investigate and control users who were trying to use its Web site to sell counterfeit Tiffany goods -- a decision that put the onus on Tiffany to monitor eBay's site itself.