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                Date: 2002-02-09
                 
                 
                JP: NPA will Online/Auktions/Gesetze ändern
                
                 
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      Im Land der aufgehenden Sonne will die National Police Agency 
die Gesetze für Online-Auktions-Websites ändern. Unter Ausschluss  
der Öffentlichkeit wird darüber gerade diskutiert. 
 
Sollte dieser Beschluss durchgehen, wäre das weltweit der erste  
Fall, bei dem polizeiliche Massnahmen ins Internet-Business 
eingreifen und dieses wohl entsprechend verändern/behindern. 
 
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Japan's National Police Agency is pushing to change decades of  
decades old auction law to apply to internet auction providers  
while current national diet is on, but without public input. If  
this law pushed through the diet, all auction site might have to  
modify their biz models. Funnily, Japanese aucition site  
providers are kind of not expressing oppositions. Some rumor  
said they fear over restriction by police if they oppose and  
others said Keizaisangyo Sho (Ministry of External Trade and  
Industry) might be going to oppose to NPA initiated change. 
 
If this change of law happened, this could be the world first  
case of that the police reguration applied on internet biz and  
this could be extended to any internet ecommerce in Japan while   
the definition of "auction broker" is vague. And this could drag  
growth of Web Service around because of the mechanisms of it based  
on a machine exchaging orders in XML format to other machines. 
 
Watch out what will happen next. 
 
The news appeared today's Nikkei news paper: 
 
http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/AC/TNKS/Nni20020207D07JFA01.htm
                   
 
Already reported on NYTimes yesterday writen by John Markoff: 
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/06/technology/06AUCT.html
                   
 
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edited by Miller 
published on: 2002-02-09 
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