OiNK Admin and Uploaders Appear in Court
Post from: TorrentFreak “ OiNK Admin and Uploaders Appear in Court: “ Yesterday, well over a year since the initial raids, Alan Ellis the ex-admin of OiNK, appeared in crown court along with five users…
13 December, 2008
Leroy v. France, application no. 36109/03, Chamber judgment of 02.10.2008.
No violation of Article 10 with regards to a cartoon which was published on 13 September, 2001. The European Court of Human Rights held that the publication of a drawing (cartoon) representing the attack on…
Mumbai terrorists thwarted security agencies by using internet telephones
Mumbai terrorists thwarted security agencies by using internet telephones: “The terrorists who attacked Mumbai were able to thwart security agency attempts to monitor their communications by using an internet telephony service similar to Skype, the…
Pirate Bay Censorship Case Not Over Yet
Post from: TorrentFreak Pirate Bay Censorship Case Not Over Yet Earlier this year a Danish court ordered the ISP ‘Tele2′ to block its customers from accessing The Pirate Bay. The appeal of this initial ruling…
MPAA Urges Obama to Embrace Internet Filtering
MPAA Urges Obama to Embrace Internet Filtering: “The Motion Picture Association of America, Hollywood’s lobbying arm, is urging the incoming Obama administration to embrace internet filtering to crack down on online piracy. The announcement comes…
Should Internet Censors Be Responsible For Breaking Stuff?
(Via Techdirt.) Should Internet Censors Be Responsible For Breaking Stuff?: “In the wake of the UK Internet Watch Foundation’s block of a particular Wikipedia page for what it claimed was illegal child pornography, and the…
EFF: Internet Censors Must Be Accountable For The Things They Break
Internet Censors Must Be Accountable For The Things They Break | Electronic Frontier Foundation “December 9th, 2008 Internet Censors Must Be Accountable For The Things They Break Deeplink by Peter Eckersley Yesterday’s scandal over the…
Richard Clayton: Technical aspects of the censoring of Wikipedia
Technical aspects of the censoring of Wikipedia: “ Part of the encyclopaedia website Wikipedia was censored in the UK between Friday 5th December 2008 and Tuesday 9th December 2008. Errors in the way that this…
Australian ISPs Refuse To Censor The Internet
Good for them! (Via Techdirt.) Australian ISPs Refuse To Censor The Internet: “It looks like the Australian government’s latest plan to censor the internet is running into a few snags. Earlier, one big ISP had…
Davenport Lyons Reported To Authorities; DigiProtect Insists Its Actions Are Aboveboard
(Via Techdirt.) Davenport Lyons Reported To Authorities; DigiProtect Insists Its Actions Are Aboveboard: “It seems things kept getting worse for Davenport Lyons and DigiProtect, who have teamed up to threaten an awful lot of people…