Tagged: PIPA & News
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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... -
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 -
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 -
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... -
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... -
SOPA in Europe – Dutch ISPs refuse to block The Pirate Bay News
30.01.2012 In a battle reminiscent of the UPC vs the record industry of 2010 and a foreshadow of what may happen in Ireland once a new statutory instrument amending the Copyright Act 2000... -
SOPA and Ireland: Minister publishes draft of statutory instrument News
26.01.2012 One of the main reasons for the ‘Irish SOPA’ controversy brewing up was no one had seen the draft legislation, or statutory instrument amending the legislation. Today, junior...Categories: Servers, Security, Legal, Intellectual Property, Government, Games/Entertainment, Communications, Internet, Social Media -
Anti-ACTA hackers attack Polish websites News
23.01.2012 Anonymous hackers today attacked Polish government websites, including the website of the Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk. Poland is to be one of the first countries in... -
Forget SOPA, Europe is about to ratify its bigger brother ACTA News
23.01.2012 Just as the SOPA and PIPA debate winds down in the US, the European Union is later this week set to work on ratifying a global intellectual property enforcement treaty: the... -
Lamar Smith decides to postpone SOPA ‘indefinitely’ News
20.01.2012 The lead sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) legislation, Republican Senator Lamar Smith, has revealed he will be postponing a SOPA markup hearing on the bill after...Categories: Servers, Security, Legal Eagle, Legal, Intellectual Property, Games/Entertainment, Government -
#OpMegaupload links by Anonymous trick users into attacking US Govt News
20.01.2012 The latest Anonymous attack, dubbed #OpMegaupload and spread via Twitter, tricks internet users into clicking on an Anonymous link that instantly launches a denial of service...Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Servers, Security, Internet, Games/Entertainment -
Zynga confirms acquisitions of four mobile gaming companies News
19.01.2012 Behind the scenes in Q3 2011, Zynga, the chief social game developer for Facebook, bought four mobile game companies, as it strives to ramp up its foothold in the mobile space. -
SOPA’s evil twin PIPA faces defeat in US Senate News
19.01.2012 Just days after the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was shelved in the US Congress, an equally controversial piece of legislation, Protect IP Act (PIPA), that also...Categories: Communications, Consumer Tech, Digital Business, Digital Media, eCommerce, Intellectual Property, Internet, Legal, Legal Eagle, Multimedia -
Internet on strike: websites go dark to protest SOPA and PIPA News
18.01.2012 Wikipedia isn’t the only website to black out to protest draconian, anti-piracy laws that threaten the fabric of the internet. It has been joined by Craigslist and BoingBoing... -
Wikipedia to black out: SOPA’s gone but PIPA is still ‘dangerous’ News
17.01.2012 Wikipedia will black out the English-language version of its online encyclopaedia from 5am tomorrow (18 January) to 5am on Thursday (19 January) to protest the Stop Online...Categories: Multimedia, Internet, Intellectual Property, Games/Entertainment, Education, Digital Media