US – Study by Parents Television Council Finds YouTube Filtering Lacking: “(Filtering Facts) Parents Television Council has just released a study of YouTube’s filtering. extremely graphic content and harsh profanity are just a click away…
(Via TorrentFreak.) RIAA Stops Lawsuits, But Not the Threats Ironically, the decision by the RIAA to stop their mass lawsuits is followed by a proposal to target an even larger group of Internet users. The…
RIAA won’t sue, but will throttle: “ Abandons lawsuit campaign The Recording Industry Association of America has signaled a major strategy shift in its war against the downloading of copyrighted music, saying it would largely…
Music Industry Drops Effort to Sue Song Swappers: “The Recording Industry Association of America says it will try to stop alleged music pirates by working with Internet service providers to cut access to frequent abusers….
China Blocks Access to The Times’s Web Site: “Authorities have begun blocking access from mainland China to the Web site of The New York Times even while lifting some of the restrictions they had imposed…
RIAA adopts new antipiracy strategy: “The record industry has dropped its longtime legal strategy of targeting individuals suspected of sharing music files online and is working instead with Internet service providers to send warnings before…
Cyber rights groups denounce IWF’s Wikipedia ban – 17 Dec 2008 – Computeractive Written by Andrea-Marie Vassou, Computeract!ve, 17 Dec 2008. Online rights groups have described the Internet Watch Foundation’s decision to block a page…
Yahoo adjusts data retention time This article has been published at RLSLOG.net In an attempt to bolster trust with its users, Yahoo has revamped its global data retention policy, promising to anonymise user log data…
BREIN Takes out ‘Largest Illegal Top Site Ever’: “It seems that BREIN, the Dutch anti-piracy organization, is on a roll as it has announced the take down of Sparta. In November of this year, BREIN…
CN – China defends latest web censorship: “(Guardian) Chinese government officials have defended their decision to block several foreign news websites, including the BBC, as the country moves away from its pledge for uncensored internet…