Teilweise neu: 2002-01-28 Contents of this issue:
1. Lack of Legal Aid 2. Party Virus 3. Pirated Rentals 4. Good Morning Tokelau ======================================================================== Old contents were: 1. Good Morning Tokelau January 28th, 2002 1. Lack of Legal Aid: Opposition MP on Niue Terry Coe says has had to ask the NZ High Commission to provide legal aid so he can get a NZ lawyer to defend two criminal charges brought by the Niue police following a raid on his home and garage workshop last year. Mr Coe says there are no qualified lawyers on the island and he wants proper legal representation. Mr Coe told Radio New Zealand today that the Niue government employed three full time lawyers but the public were represented by unqualified or partly qualified public defenders. Mr Coe has been pressing for a qualified peoples lawyer on Niue for several years. Mr Coe alleges the latest charges he faces relate to mechanical equipment loaned from the Niue High School where he was principal 11 years ago. He will be charged in the High Court tomorrow. In December Mr Coe was charged with criminal libel which related to a comment made on Radio New Zealand in 2001 following his removal from the Assembly on the orders of the Speaker. The complaint was laid by the Premier Sani Lakatani. Last year a Tongan planter who faced a charge of murder was unable to afford qualified legal representation and appeared with non-qualified representation. The Judge dismissed the murder charge on the lack of evidence but the defendant pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was jailed for 11 years. 2. Party Virus: A new computer virus disguised as a link to a website with pictures of arty has appeared. While the e-mail worm MyParty is not proving nearly as devastating as it predecessor Nimda and Kournikova, it is interesting because it uses a new psychological tactic to fool computer users. The highly infectious worm is the first to use the .com extension in an attempt to fool users to open it. "It seems as if it comes from mates and the attachment looks like a web address so could persuade otherwise wary users to click," said consultant at anti-virus firm Sophos Graham Cluley. The email carries the subject line "new photos from my party" and pretends to direct users to a Yahoo website containing photographs of a friend's party. A message in the body of the e-mail reads: "Hello! My party... It was absolutely amazing! I have attached my web page with new photos! If you can please make colour prints of my photos. Thanks!" If opened the worm sends a copy of itself to every contact in the Windows address book. MyParty is the latest in a series of so-called socially engineered viruses that use psychological tricks to get clicks. The infamous Kournikova worm promised users a picture of the Russian tennis player. (BBC World News). 1. Pirated Rentals: A complaint of copyright violation has resurfaced in the Cook Islands, with video rental outlets agreeing to withdraw pirated DVD copies of "The Lord of the Rings" ahead of the film reaching local movie theatres. A month ago, illegal copies of the Harry Potter movie were advertised for rental -- before the movie's premiere in New Zealand. Pirated copies of Harry Potter are also reported to be now circulating on Niue. Cook Islands copyright official Geoff Bergin says he will seek meetings with the government and police over the copyright violations. Although a new copyright law for the Cook Islands has been drafted with the help of the New Zealand Motion Picture Association, it has yet to go through Parliament.(PIR). 2. Good Morning Tokelau: The Modern House of Tokelau is planning to open the islands first radio station later this year. It is a part of plan to communicate more information about developing a living viable community through good governance. A Tokelau public service spokesperson says the radio station will allow council of elders to communicate more efficiently and there is already a lot of interest in the radio station. The spokesperson says Tokelau musicians are getting ready to record local songs. Setting up the radio station will be funded by the NZ Department of Economic Development.Tokelau remains the last Pacific territory linked to New Zealand. __END__
