When the entire Internet gets angry, Congress takes notice. Both the House and the Senate on Friday backed away from a pair of controversial anti-piracy bills, tossing them into limbo and throwing doubt on their future viability. The Senate had been scheduled to hold a proceedural vote next week ... Read more...
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18/01/2012,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News,
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What are SOPA and PIPA? (No, we're not talking about Kate Middleton's sister.) Thousands of websites, including some of the most popular, are going dark today to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill which is designed to thwart copyright infringement but that Web experts warn could threat... Read more...
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17/01/2012,
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SOPA Emergency IP list: So if these *ss-f*cks in DC decide to ruin the internet, here’s how to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown tumblr.com 174.121.194.34 wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201 # News bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131 aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252 # Social ... Read more...
French presidential officials have been caught illegally downloading copyrighted material; ironic, as the officials could have broken the French ‘three strikes’ laws twice over. Just as both employees of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the RIAA, one of the main proponents behind th... Read more...
Since the release of a website that monitors nearly 20 percent of all public BitTorrent downloaders, even more pro-SOPA figures have been found downloading copyrighted material. Earlier this week, it was found that employees of major copyright holders Sony, Universal, and Fox were all found... Read more...
Last Thursday the U.S. House of Representatives’ judiciary committee passed a bill that makes the online activity of every American available to police and attorneys upon request under the guise of protecting children from pornography. Note: Update with citizen petitions on page 2. The R... Read more...
The House Judiciary Committee approved legislation on Thursday that would require Internet service providers (ISPs) to collect and retain records about Internet users' activity. CNET reported the bill would require ISPs to retain customers' names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers... Read more...
Following LulzSec’s defacement of The Sun on Monday, the FBI swooped down on Anonymous and arrested 16 people in several states for allegedly attacking PayPal. A federal indictment against 14 of the arrested accuses them of launching a Ddos (denial of service) against PayPal after it closed... Read more...
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25/04/2011,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Lawsuits,
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Matthew Williams, a professor at Washington College of Law, mentioned this in his impressively and refreshingly balanced blog post on the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) blog earlier today, but I wanted to emphasize the United States Patent and Trademark Office (... Read more...