The MPAA has been targeting cyberlockers for the last little while. Now, another website I’ve used to distribute music I produce has decided to bow to pressure and censor me in the process of shutting down its sharing services. CNet has noted that the MPAA is targeting several cyberlockers. The article says that the MPAA [...]

The NDP leadership convention has wrapped up in Canada. While a leader was selected, there was an underlying problem with the voting process itself. Since the CBC apparently did not have the resources to understand what a DDOS attack even was which appears to have been what happened to the NDP voting system, we here [...]

An anti-piracy company is in damage control after it says that the URLs that were the subject of a DMCA takedown on Google were removed by mistake. The URLs have since been reinstated. Last night, we reported on the DMCA takedown of two URLs on Google. One of those URLs led to a TorrentFreak article [...]

Techdirt, a well-read news website made a rather surprising discovery recently. It turns out, both Techdirt and TorrentFreak were both the target of a DMCA takedown of their articles discussing, ironically enough, bogus takedown notices. News story updated. See below. Censorship by copyright is a topic that is discussed off and on over the years. [...]

With the rising tide of internet surveillance and tough copyright laws, Drew Wilson comments on an infrequently discussed topic that really could be the elephant in the room in all of this. He then concludes that threatening the internet is a bad idea. In the last several months, we’ve seen seemingly countless stories about broad [...]

Have you been getting those calls from people working in a call center from what sounds like India? You know, those people who claim to be from either the “Computer Maintenance Department” or the “Windows Technical Team” who then instruct you to go to your computer? Tell the select minority of people who would fall [...]

While over one hundred thousand websites and millions of people were taking a stand against a potential American censorship by copyright regime thanks to SOPA and PIPA, ZeroPaid’s very own Drew Wilson, for the first time, has officially become a victim of censorship by copyright. The BBC is reporting that one-click hoster MegaUpload was shut [...]

It all started with a question over a simple game accessory. Now, the story has propelled one PR firm into a spotlight so fast, it has been extremely hard to keep track of all the updates. It should be a PR firms dream come true, but it has become exactly the opposite. Public Relations (PR) [...]

SOPA is getting one step closer towards final passage. This has many users nervous. Now, it seems, a very predictable development is occurring, users are generating IP address lists to bi-pass DNS censorship. DNS censorship could soon be a reality in the US. If a company or government entity choose to make a website disappear, [...]

SOPA heads for a vote tomorrow. There’s no question what kind of damage it could do to internet companies, users of the internet, jobs and the economy within the United States. Drew Wilson offers a perspective on what SOPA means as a citizen of a country outside the United States. BoingBoing is noting that today [...]

A few months ago, there was some fanfare about an alternative to the OpenSource personal productivity suite OpenOffice.org. This split project is known as LibreOffice. ZeroPaid decided to take a look at this software and gather some first impressions. Personal office suites are pretty much a staple of the personal computer. If you want to [...]

We’ve discussed the PROTECT-IP Act at length here at ZeroPaid. While we have plenty of ways of examining the PROTECT-IP Act, we’ve decided to talk to Andrew Lewman, the Executive Director of Tor Project, about Tor, and the PROTECT-IP Act. There’s been plenty of discussion about the PROTECT-IP Act. One way we’ve examined it is [...]

We’ve been testing, prodding and, well, having a perfectly good excuse to play some video games for the last two weeks. If you wondered how to play some of those oldschool video games on a computer, you’ve come to the right article. We’ve compiled a list of 6 emulators that can allow you to play [...]

One of the criticisms of copyright laws has, for some time, been that the punishment is far too severe for the crime being committed. This debate is nothing new and it seems to be heating up in Europe right now. One French news site decided to compare the penalties of file-sharing to the penalties of [...]

Privacy while surfing can be serious business for a number of web surfers. Some use a number of tools like NoScript to block unwanted scripts on websites they visit. This can help stop websites from tracking who that user is that visit that webpage, thus enhancing their privacy. This guide will show you how to [...]

A man from the Netherlands is being sued by RealNetworks for linking to a freeware application. The application, RealAlternative, is considered by some to be a competitive product to software from RealNetworks. RealNetworks alleges that the software in question is infringing on its trademarks and is demanding the accused hand over all computer equipment in [...]

It almost sounds silly that someone could possibly salvage the PROTECT IP Act at this point in time. Still, that doesn’t stop some people from trying to pass off the PROTECT IP act as something that would actually do anything at all to stop piracy. We’d like to respond to this opinion with some counter-arguments [...]

We’ve been covering the technological side of the UK riots for some time now. After all that has happened to date, it seems a new study has surfaced in France that might serve against Prime Minister David Cameron should he try to go through and censor social media. Last week, UK Prime Minister David Cameron [...]

A report has surfaced that has received a fair bit of attention. The report suggests that Canada is facing a piece of internet surveillance legislation that would pretty much eliminate all due process. Naturally, this is of concern to us because we are concerned about privacy related stories, so we took a look at the [...]

When it comes to internet connection speeds, ISPs often advertise some blazing fast speeds – sometimes at a fairly cheap rate. Unfortunately, a lot of these deals come with a very big string attached to it – bandwidth caps. In response, we here at ZeroPaid have decided to offer some helpful tables that should show [...]