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Senator Feinstein: Filtering the Internet Does Not Violate Free Speech

California Senator Diane Feinstein defends the "Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act" (PROTECT IP Act), and believes the legislation is important to protect ...

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Mexican Congress Rejects ACTA

The Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement has certainly been the most famous and controversial international agreements surrounding copyright. It left many stakeholders anywhere between unsatisfied to vehemently opposed. Now, one ...


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RIAA Govt Lobbying Spending Surges 74%

Spends $2.1 in Q1 2011, up 74% from the $1.51 million it spent the quarter previous, to lobby on intellectual property rights in various countries and to end ...

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PSN Outage: Day 10 – FBI, Congress and 22 State Attorneys General Get Involved

It is now day 10 of the infamous Sony PSN (PlayStation Network) outage. Already, 5 countries are involved including the US, UK, a city in China, Australia and Canada. ...

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Google Begins Filtering Cyberlocker, BitTorrent Search Results

Follows through on promise it made last month "prevent terms that are closely associated with piracy from appearing in Autocomplete." It seems Google is making good on the promise it made ...


Internet radio royalty hike delayed; last chance to petition Congress

Internet radio will remain safe and sound, at least through July of this year, on account of a new decision by the US Copyright Royalty Board. Under the CRB's original ...

Congress spanks naughty sex sites

The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would make it a federal felony for Webmasters to use innocent words like "Barbie" or "Furby" but actually feature ...

Hearing looks at Net name privatization plan

The U.S. Department of Commerce will hold a Wednesday hearing on the government's September deadline to give up control over Internet domain names, a schedule that some high-tech industry advocates ...

Groups urge US passage of law aimed at global online free speech

Fourteen human rights urged Congress Tuesday to pass legislation aimed at preventing US technology companies from cooperating with China or other countries in stifling online free speech. The groups, including Reporters ...

How Washington will shape the Internet

The most potent force shaping the future of the Internet is neither Mountain View’s Googleplex nor the Microsoft campus in Redmond. It’s rather a small army of Gucci-shod lobbyists ...

We aren’t all pirates

THE INTERNET AND DIGITAL technology have been both a blessing and a curse for the entertainment industry, opening new opportunities for selling music and video but also fueling rampant global ...

Online wagering under attack in Congress

Gamblers who prefer their laptops to blackjack tables won't like what Congress is doing. On Tuesday, the House plans to vote on a bill that would ban credit cards for ...

Rep. Berman Calls For Probe of DVD Piracy Involving Aeroflot

Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-Valley Village) on Friday called on the head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to investigate allegations that pirated DVDs were being smuggled into Los Angeles ...

Net neutrality divides bureaucrats, too

Net neutrality continues to wrangle members of the House and Senate as lawmakers debate the pros and cons of the U.S. Telecom Act. They're not alone in being divided, though, ...

US Congress joins ‘Internet neutrality” debate

Congress has plunged into a multi-million-dollar debate over Internet usage fees that are feared by computing giants like Google and Microsoft and championed by the phone companies. Opponents of the new ...

Internet firms to crack down on child porn

Create $1m image database A group of US internet giants have come together to form an alliance in a bid to combat child pornography. AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, EarthLink and United Online have ...

Senators adopt Web labeling requirement

Web site operators posting sexually explicit information must slap warning labels on their pages or face prison terms of up to 15 years, according to a proposal adopted by a ...

Spain Adds ‘Copyright Tax’ to Blank Media

On Thursday, June 22, 2006 the Spanish Congress voted to implement a tax on all blank media, including flash memory sticks, blank cd and dvd-rs, even mobile phones and printers. ...

Christain Music Trade Association Intentionally Misleading Congress

All to often the Music Industry (and the Movie Industry for that matter) promotes lies, distortions and propaganda to the public regarding their alleged loss of income due to the ...







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