PSA: The Computer Maintenance Department Scam Calls
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 ...
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Censoring Civil Unrest in Social Media Exacerbates Rioting – Study
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 ...
UK PMs Internet Censorship Insinuation Receives Praise from China
You know your internet censorship plans are too strict when China praises you for it.
I'll say this right off the bat, if someone told me one month ago that I ...
Leaked Document: Copyright Industry Wants a Great Firewall of Britain
Website blocking has certainly been discussed in the US with the PROTECT IP act first propsed last month. While the senate has approved the bill, ...
British Student Faces Extradition to the US for Linking to Copyrighted Material
He created a website that allegedly linked to copyrighted material. Now, the US wants Richard O'Dwyer, the former owner of TVShack, to face a US court over his websites ...
Pink Floyd Band Manager: Attempts to Stop People From Copying a “Waste of Time”
There's been no shortage of opinions on the issue of downloading music. From average citizens to activists to labels to mainstream to small time artists, just everyone affected by ...
Report – UK Government Won’t Repeal Digital Economy Act After All
Yesterday, we reported that the government wants to repeal parts of the Digital Economy Act. Today, there was a conflicting report from a one site that says ...
PPUK – Why the Price of Justice is Too High for File-Sharing
Last week, the UK Pirate Party officially became a political party in Britain, this week, they have posted an interesting commentary on the price of justice ...
BPI Exec – Industry Shouldn’t Have Fought Napster
It may have taken 10 years for one executive to come up with this revelation, but the head of the British Phonographic Industry, or BPI, has recently admitted that the ...
UK Copyright Industry Wants to Use Pop-Ups to Stop File-Sharing
Using the strikingly flawed logic that everyone connecting to a file-sharing network is automatically a copyright infringer, the UK copyright industry wants the government to force ISPs to use pop-up ...
British IP Minister Shoots Down Three Strikes Law Proposal
The copyright industry may have a brand new setback if it hopes that the Three Strikes law would take off in Europe. Intellectual Property Minister David Lammy has said ...
Could the Economic Crises Kill UKs National ID Card Scheme?
British privacy advocates may have found an unlikely ally in the fight against the UKs national ID card system - the economic crises. The National ID card has become ...
Home Office Backs Down from ‘Super Database’ Surveillance, Launches Consultation
Britain's Home Office has been wanting to take all communications including everything in social networking sites and phone conversations and put all the information into what has been dubbed a ...
Davenport Lyons Threatens to Sue Wikileaks Over Publication of Extortion Letter
Claims that the extortion letter is protected by copyright and cannot be posted online.
Late last year, Wikileaks obtained a copy of one of the extortion letters sent by the infamous ...
Exclusive: ZeroPaid Interviews Open Rights Group
Many things have been happening surrounding your rights on the internet and a number of these things are occurring in Britain. We interviewed Open Rights Group to get a ...
One of the RIAA’s Law Firms Tries to Scare British P2P Users
There's some more anti-p2p propaganda starting to circulate as news in Britain, but an investigation into the law firm reveals that there is a connection between the law firm and ...
British Top Legal Advisers – Copyright Term Extension is Bad
Many advocates and experts from around the world have had a long and hard fought battle to stop the major copyright industry's push to extend the term of copyright. It's ...
Wikileaks – Phorm Crashes Browsers, Allegedly Broke the Law 113 Million Times
We have been following the Phorm controversy for some time now and now some new developments have emerged. These ...
Open Rights Group Echoes Patry’s Concerns
Last Week, ZeroPaid reported on comments made by Bill Patry which suggests that the copyright industry is looking to make money off of private copying. It seems ...
Patry – British Copyright Industry’s New Perverse Copyright Theory
When one makes makes a private copy of a copyrighted work for non-commercial purposes, many Americans think of fair use and end the debate. In Britain, the copyright industry ...
