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The US Senate is about to consider a new legislation aimed to decrease copyright piracy on the Internet by allowing copyright owners to get court orders requiring Internet service providers and search engines to stop sending traffic to websites accused of trafficking in infringing goods.

A new report from the organization European Digital Rights (EDRI) revealed that an increasing number of European Union member states are delegating online policing to private sector companies and Internet service providers, provoking anger and concerns of the latter.

If previously it was law enforcement agencies who addressed the problem of illegal online content, now more powers are given to ISPs so that the industry would regulate itself independently. The trend is likely to be implemented widely with increasing "extra-judicial sanctions" against consumers.

According to the data from net security firm Damballa western countries such as US, Germany and France occupy top positions in the botnent hosting charts. While China and Russia are known for their gangs that deal with hacking, spamming and cybercrime, these rank far below the western world as compiled by Damballa.

The report shows that for the first half of 2010, almost a quarter (23.9%) of botnet CnC servers were hosted by service providers in the US, followed by Germany with 17.9% and France with 8.6%.

Arbor Networks, a software company that sells network security and network monitoring software, ranked Google as the world’s second largest Internet Service Provider. Earlier this year the company brought the idea of considering Google as an ISP, and determined that the search giant would actually be the third-largest carrier in the world. Now Arbor Networks has revisited the concept believing Google has expanded to reach the second place.

We are to consider today Internet and e-commerce industry of the world's largest island with over 56,000 people populated it, Greenland that has its capital in Nuuk. The island represents an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Despite, geographically and ethnically Greenland associated with the continent of North America, politically and historically this Arctic island nation has close ties with Europe.

Benin is an African state Internet and e-commerce industry of which we are to study today. Benin is a country in West Africa, bordering Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north. Benin, that has its capital in Porto-Novo, is a tropical, sub-Saharan nation with substantial employment and income arising from subsistence farming. Country’s economy remains underdeveloped and mostly dependent on subsistence agriculture, cotton production, and regional trade.

Today we are to explore Internet and e-commerce infrastructure of the smallest sovereign state in the South America inhabited by slightly over 481,000 people, Suriname. The country is located to the north of the mainland between French Guiana to the east and Guyana to the west; country’s southern border is shared with Brazil and the northern border is the Atlantic coast. Suriname is the only Dutch-speaking region in the world not a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands or Belgium and the only state outside Europe with Dutch as an official language.

We are turning to Africa today, in order to consider internet and e-commerce infrastructure of Senegal. That is a country south of the Sénégal River in western Africa, externally bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, and Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the south; internally it almost completely surrounds The Gambia, namely on the north, east and south, exempting Gambia's short Atlantic Ocean coastline.

Fiji, an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising an archipelago of more than 332 islands, of which 110 are permanently inhabited, and more than 500 islets, is the country Internet and e-commerce infrastructure of which we are to explore today. Its immediate neighbours are Vanuatu to the west, France's New Caledonia to the southwest, New Zealand's Kermadec to the southeast, Tonga to the east, the Samoas and France's Wallis and Futuna to the northeast and Tuvalu to the north.

The country attracted our attention today is Tanzania located in central East Africa. The country is bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique to the south. Actually, Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in the world, being deprived its natural wealth and resources and totally dependent on help from the rest of the world.

We are to consider today Internet and e-commerce industry of one of the Arabic countries, located in Western Asia, Iraq. This Muslim country is spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert. Iraq is bordered by Jordan to the west, Syria to the northwest, Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, and Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to the south. The economy of the country is dominated by the oil sector, which has traditionally provided about 95% of foreign exchange earnings.

The country Internet and e-commerce infrastructure of which we are to consider today is South Africa. The country is located at the southern tip of Africa, with a 2,798 kilometres coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north of the South Africa lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe; to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland; while Lesotho is an independent country wholly surrounded by South African territory. South Africa is known for diversity in cultures and languages. The economy of the country is mixed with high rate of poverty and low GDP per capita.

Tunisia is the North African country Internet and e-commerce infrastructure of which we are to consider today. Bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east, Tunisia represents the smallest of the nations situated along the Atlas mountain range. Importantly, this African country has close relations with both the European Union and the Arab world, being also a member of the Arab League and the African union.

The country attracted our attention today is the largest Central American country, Nicaragua, which, however, one of the least densely populated. The country, that has its capital in Managua, is bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south to the west of the country the Pacific Ocean lies; the country's Caribbean coast is part of the Western Caribbean Zone.

The country ICT and e-commerce infrastructure of which we are to consider today is an amazing land of wonderful nature with amazing fauna and unique flora, Kenya, located in East Africa. This amazing country, that is lying along the Indian Ocean, is bordered by, at the equator, Ethiopia (north), Somalia (northeast), Tanzania (south), Uganda plus Lake Victoria (west), and Sudan (northwest). Kenya, named after Mount Kenya, a significant landmark and the second among the highest mountain peaks of Africa, has numerous wildlife reserves, containing thousands of animal species.