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 teamed up to create a database of known child pornography images, with each image being assigned a unique mathematical signature within the database. The new [...]
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 U.S. Senate committee on Tuesday.
During a day of debate on a wide-ranging communications bill, the Senate Commerce Committee approved an amendment backed by the Bush [...]
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. There is no word on how much this new tax will be, only that the revenues will be collected by the government, and will then [...]
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 exchange of ‘their’ works via filesharing networks. Most often these deliberate falsifications derive directly from organizations like the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) or [...]
