U.S. Judge Blocks Porn BitTorrent Suits Filed in W. Va. – XBIZ.com By Rhett Pardon Friday, Dec 17, 2010 Text size: MARTINSBURG, Va. — A federal judge has quashed thousands of subpoenas that were requested…
Feds please no one with first official net neut rules By Cade Metz in San Francisco Posted in Networks, 22nd December 2010 00:39 GMT The US Federal Communications Commission has officially approved rules meant to…
The French Government Can Now Censor the Internet – Slashdot: “‘A new episode in French internet legislation — French ministers have passed a bill (original in French) allowing the government to add any website to…
Google won’t share encryption keys with Indian sleuths – The Economic Times 16 Dec, 2010, 04.15AM IST, Kalyan Parbat,ET Bureau Google won’t share encryption keys with Indian sleuths KOLKATA: Google Inc will not share the…
Permission for Porn the Minister argues for! Absolutely unbelievable. read the Guardian article below for details. Why would anyone need permission for some activity which is not deemed illegal? This is a serious attack not…
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression JOINT STATEMENT ON WIKILEAKS December 21, 2010–In light of ongoing developments related to the…
WikiLeaks, protest and the law: The rights and wrongs of hacktivism | The Economist: ” The rights and wrongs of hacktivism Protest can be disruptive but legal. But furtiveness removes its moral weight Two ends…
Record Labels Blame Google For Piracy, Hint At Censorship: “The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the UK’s main recording industry trade body, came out with guns blazing against Google today. BPI says that search engines like…
Film Industry Calls on Broadband ISP BT Retail UK to Block Newsgroup Website − ISPreview UK: “Film Industry Calls on Broadband ISP BT Retail UK to Block Newsgroup Website By: MarkJ – 16 December, 2010…
MPAA Takes Legal Action To Force ISP to Block Newzbin: “Three months ago, TorrentFreak discovered that the Motion Picture Association were about to make an unprecedented move against file-sharing in the UK. Their targets were…