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…
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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…
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…
Why the IWF was wrong to lift its ban on a Wikipedia page
I don’t agree with the views expressed in this article but cyberlaw.org.uk provides links to all views expressed on the IWF matter. The IWF’s role is NOT comparable to the Advertising Standards Authority and the…
IWF rethinks its role
IWF rethinks its role: “ Ministry of Justice misleads on extreme porn Anger at aborted attempts by net censor, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) to block material hosted on Wikipedia earlier this week may lead…
Regulator to probe Davenport Lyons’ P2P porn cash demands
Regulator to probe Davenport Lyons’ P2P porn cash demands: “ Hot watchdog on watchdog action Lawyers for the consumer rights lobby Which? have filed an official complaint to the body that regulates solicitors over Davenport…
Reg readers in the dark over extreme porn
Reg readers in the dark over extreme porn: “ Local police clueless too A Register reader has been left baffled by the reaction of her local police force when they were asked what exactly is…
Scorpions tale leaves IWF exposed
Scorpions tale leaves IWF exposed: “ ‘Look, that regulator isn’t wearing any clothes’ Opinion As the dust settles over the Internet Watch Foundation’s (IWF) little local difficulty with Wikipedia, the question that needs to be…