Tagged: ACTA

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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...

Categories: Software & Web Development, Media, Legal, Intellectual Property, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media

Tags: SOPA, UPC, PIPA, The Pirate Bay, ACTA, Eircom, IRMA
MEP quits in disgust at ACTA ‘charade’ News
27.01.2012 Kader Arif, a leading French MEP who had the role of rapporteur – ie, leading investigator – into the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) – has resigned in protest and...

Categories: Intellectual Property, Government, Consumer Tech, Internet, Legal, R&D

Tags: SOPA, Political, EU, ACTA
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...

Categories: Security, Servers, Social Media, Software

Tags: Twitter, PIPA, SOPA, ACTA, Anonymous, Cyber Attack, Hackers
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...

Categories: Communications, Government, Intellectual Property, Internet, Legal

Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Illegal Downloads, ISPs, ACTA, PIPA, SOPA

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