Tagged: SOPA & News
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‘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... -
Internet Association's public forum on Irish copyright review is live News
03.03.2012 The Irish Internet Association’s public forum on the Irish copyright review, open to members, the public and the ISP Association of Ireland (ISPAI) has gone live. Feedback from...Categories: Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Government, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Communications -
Public debate on ‘Irish SOPA’ to begin before weekend News
01.03.2012 The Irish Internet Association’s public forum on the Irish copyright review is expected to go live by the weekend and will be open to the public, as well as IIA members. -
Minister welcomes European court ruling against filtering content News
16.02.2012 The Minister for Research and Innovation Sean Sherlock said he "welcomed" a decision from the European Court of Justice which ruled that social networks cannot be obliged to... -
Germany postpones decision to sign controversial ACTA treaty News
10.02.2012 As thousands of people in 200 European cities prepare to march in protest tomorrow against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Germany has delivered a potentially... -
Ireland’s SOPA – the day of reckoning approaches News
06.02.2012 Tomorrow, the controversial statutory instrument concerning a change to the Copyright Act 2000 to correct a loophole in the legislation – dubbed ‘Ireland’s SOPA’ – goes before... -
ISPs speak out against legal change dubbed ‘Irish SOPA’ News
03.02.2012 The furious debate surrounding the statutory instrument to amend the Copyright Act 2000 – dubbed the ‘Irish SOPA’ – until now has seen one group maintain a dignified silence.... -
Thousands protest ACTA, petition gets 300k signatures in 72 hours News
03.02.2012 Thousands of people will take to the streets in opposition to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) on 11 February, a policy analyst for Access predicts. She warns ACTA... -
11 February declared day of action against ACTA News
02.02.2012 A controversial global treaty – the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement – which has the agreement of 22 European nations, including Ireland, has spurred protesters to declare 11... -
SOPA Box – debating the future of the internet in Ireland News
31.01.2012 Ahead of this evening’s Dail debate on the statutory instrument that amends the Copyright Act 2000, two of the leaders behind the Stop SOPA Ireland petition – Michele Neylon and... -
Ireland’s SOPA: could a new Copyright Act be the way forward? News
30.01.2012 Primary legislation, potentially in the shape of a new Copyright Act or an amendment to the existing legislation, is being examined as a way to ensure Ireland is at the...Categories: Government, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Communications, Intellectual Property, Internet, Legal