American Prosecutors Censor ZeroPaid Reporter!
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 ...
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Opinion – What SOPA Means for a Non-US Citizen
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 ...
ZeroPaid Speaks to Executive Director of Tor Project About PROTECT-IP Act
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 ...
French Report – Legal Punishment for Filesharing as Severe as Manslaughter
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 ...
NZ Government Faces Disconnection As a Result of Three Strikes Law
With New Zealand three strikes law in place, some might wonder who could be one of the first victims might be. It turns out that it could be none ...
8 Technical Methods That Make the PROTECT IP Act Useless
We've been running a series of guides that show just how easy it is to bi-pass general DNS censorship. It's general DNS censorship that has been proposed in the ...
Guide: How to Defeat US DNS Censorship (Changing Your DNS Server)
We've been running a series for guides for some time on how to defeat DNS censorship as suggested by the PROTECT-IP Act. Today, we'll show you another method that ...
Hollywood Wins Court Case – ISP Ordered to Block NewzBin2
While major entertainment corporations are working hard at censoring the internet in the United States through the PROTECT IP Act, it corporate sponsored censorship has already become a reality in ...
Judge Slashes Jammie Thomas Fine to $54,000
The case is at least 4 years old now, but that doesn't mean it's over. Jammie Thomas trial was described as a "first of its kind" trials where a ...
IFPI Announces Agreement With PayPal to Cut Off Pirate Sites
After over a half of a year of pressure on these companies from major multinational companies, the IFPI has said a few days ago that PayPal has agreed with the ...
PROTECT IP Would Destabilize Internet Security, Consultants Warn
We've already heard from law professors who disapprove of the PROTECT IP act, now security experts are also lining up to oppose the PROTECT IP act for the ...
OSCE – Three Strikes Laws Incompatible with International Obligations to Free Speech
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the world's largest security-oriented intergovernmental organization has issued a report that explicitly states that a three strikes ...
NZ – AFACT Demanding That ISPs Should Pay for Enforcing Three Strikes Law
New Zealand is one of the countries that have the oppressive three strikes law. It hasn't taken effect yet, but AFACT, a local copyright lobby, is demanding that ISPs ...
Report – CRIA Goes Through Name Change
It may have been the most controversial name in the entire copyright debate, but a report is saying that you won't be able to call it by its standard name ...
Assessing America’s ’6 Strike’ Regime
There's been rumblings for a while for the US to have it's own 3 strike law, but many thought that it wouldn't happen given the implications. Much to the ...
Swedish Authorities Disconnects FileSharing as a Religion
Filesharing is certainly widely practised. People certainly do share files religiously. FileSharing is a regular part of people's lives. Does that make filesharing a religion though? ...
Law Professors Line Up to Oppose the PROTECT IP Act
The PROTECT IP Act, the legislation that would erect the "Great Firewall of America" has had been building increasing resistance from the American people. Recently, ninety law ...
Copyright Holder Fighting Fraudulent DMCA Notices on YouTube
YouTube has built a reputation for quickly pulling copyrighted material from its servers. Many have argued for years that YouTube pulls content a little too quickly and some have ...
16 Year Old Faces Multiple Years in Prison for Linking to Copyrighted Material
The owner of a website called cinema-world.biz is now facing multiple years in prison for linking to copyrighted material. According to Czech anti-piracy outfit, it's the first time an ...
Major French Political Party Wants to Repeal HADOPI
Martine Aubry, the secretary of the Socialist Party, has recently announced her intentions to repeal HADOPI ("law promoting the distribution and protection of creative works on the internet") - the ...
