Tagged: SOPA
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SOPA, PIPA, ACTA and the battle for freedom on the internet News
03.01.2013 At the beginning of 2012, there was an online blackout as prominent sites protested what they believed to be unfair copyright legislation about to be enacted. This led to... -
European Commission sounds ACTA’s death knell News
20.12.2012 The controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is dead in the eyes of European legislators who have withdrawn a request for the treaty to be examined by the... -
UPC denies plans to block The Pirate Bay in Ireland - 'our position has not changed' News
24.10.2012 Cable TV and internet giant UPC has dismissed reports that it plans to block users of torrent sharing site The Pirate Bay and suggested that Irish users who got notices warning... -
Anonymous member claims responsibility for GoDaddy attack that took millions of sites offline News
11.09.2012 Millions of sites registered with GoDaddy.com were knocked offline for four hours yesterday as a result of a massive denial of service attack for which an Anonymous member... -
ACTA has been rejected by the European Parliament News
04.07.2012 The notoriously Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which nations including Ireland signed earlier this year in Japan, has been overwhelmingly rejected by the European... -
UK Home Office confirms it has abandoned Richard O’Dwyer to US extradition News
03.07.2012 A 24-year-old British citizen’s extradition to the US to face copyright infringement charges is not to be contested by the UK Home Office, it was confirmed today. The plight of...Categories: Web, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Communications -
European Parliament group delivers deathblow to ACTA News
21.06.2012 The controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) which sparked a wave of protest in Europe after various governments signed it in Japan without consulting their...Categories: Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Government, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Communications -
ACTA rejected by three EU committees News
31.05.2012 All three EU committees advising the International Trade Committee have today rejected the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the treaty to put a stop to... -
Copyright Review Commission extends deadline News
29.05.2012 The deadline for submissions to the Copyright Review Commission about changes to Ireland’s copyright law in the aftermath of the signing of a notorious statutory instrument to...Categories: R&D, Multimedia, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Government, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
Savvy TDs crowdsource their response to Copyright Review News
28.05.2012 A pair of independent TDs are enlisting the public as part of a crowdsourcing exercise to get feedback on their submission to the Copyright Review Commission in the aftermath of...Categories: Multimedia, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Government, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
‘We’re likely to be in a world without SOPA and ACTA’ – EU’s Neelie Kroes News
08.05.2012 The EU Commissioner for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes has admitted we are now likely to be in a world without SOPA and without ACTA. -
CISPA – are tech giants backing off nervously? News
02.05.2012 The CISPA internet surveillance bill in the US – which looked like it had the unanimous support of tech giants like Facebook and Microsoft – appears to be losing support or...Categories: Social Media, Servers, Security, Legal, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Business, Consumer Tech -
CISPA and the power to cyber snoop – er, what just happened? News
27.04.2012 What just happened to privacy on the web? Have large US internet giants and security agencies been given extra rights to snoop online? These are the questions in my mind after... -
Tim Berners-Lee: people would go to prison rather than lose internet News
24.04.2012 The inventor of the world wide web Tim Berners-Lee said people were absolutely right to take to the streets to protest SOPA, PIPA and ACTA and said disconnecting a family’s...Categories: Telecommunications, Social Media, Servers, Security, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media -
Google’s Sergey Brin warns of demise of open internet News
16.04.2012 Google co-founder Sergey Brin has hit out against giants such as Apple and Facebook, as well as the rising threat of governments trying to control people’s web access, resulting... -
Sound, vision and fury News
12.04.2012 Ongoing debates about digital media, copyright reform, piracy and internet freedom are just ‘raindrops’ in a much bigger flood that is about to hit the internet.Tags: Copyright, ACTA, SOPA, Innovation, Piracy, Legislation, ISP, Illegal Downloads, Copyright Infringement -
Sound, vision – and some fury – at Digital Rights Forum (videos) News
05.04.2012 In what was a stirring and exhilarating debate on Tuesday about Ireland’s copyright laws in which Innovation Minister Sean Sherlock made himself available to the public, the one...Categories: Research, R&D, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Government, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Communications -
#DRF2012 – Speeches on Ireland’s digital future (video) News
04.04.2012 Here are the speeches from yesterday’s Digital Rights Forum in Dublin, a stirring and exciting debate on the controversial statutory instrument, featuring Innovation Minister...Categories: R&D, Networking & Telecoms, Multimedia, Legal, Investments, Internet, Intellectual Property, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Communications, Research -
Minister Sherlock extends olive branch to Simon McGarr News
02.04.2012 Innovation Minister Sean Sherlock TD told Silicon Republic tonight that he has had a change of heart and wishes to extend an invitation to solicitor Simon McGarr to attend the... -
Press council chief to chair public meeting on ‘Irish SOPA’ News
20.03.2012 The deadline has been extended on a public consultation on a proposed Copyright Review that arose from the signing of the controversial statutory instrument dubbed the Irish...