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, ...
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School Porn Filter Defeated by Third Grade Students
Net filtering has been brought up a lot in recent months. But how effective are different kinds of filtering technology? As one school found out the hard ...
French Surveillance Legislation LOPPSI 2 Debated in Senate
Is it right that police upload malware to users merely suspected of a crime without their consent, knowledge, or a court order? That might be what supporters of this ...
Indonesia Orders ISPs to Block All Porn Sites
Information and Communications Minister Tifatul Sembiring orders the country's ISPs to block all porn sites before the start of Ramadhan next week, but (surprise, surprise) one of the heads of ...
Prof – 4Chan Trolls Reason Enough For Mandatory Australian ISP Filter
The story of Jessi Slaughter is reaching Australia, perhaps, for all the wrong reasons. A professor has taken the story and is arguing for internet censorship, saying, "You simply ...
AT&T Denies Arstechnica 3 Strikes Allegation
Over the weekend, we noted a rather surprising article from Arstechnica that claimed AT&T was calling for a three strikes law. We spoke to an ...
Scrutiny Over 1.5 Million US Job Losses Due to Net Neutrality Mounts
While the European Union is dealing with a filtering debate that appears to be a threat to the internet as we know it, the internet as we know ...
EU Web Filtering Debate Heats Up With IT Group Denouncing It
There's already been a lot of talk about a possible web filter in the EU and now the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), a group representing a number of ...
US Study Claims Network Neutrality Would Negatively Impact 1.5 Million Jobs
Another day, another doom and gloom study. This time, Coleman Bazelon of The Brattle Group claims that if network neutrality were put in place, nearly 1.5 Million jobs would ...
Kiwi Govt Internet Filter Up and Running
ISPs Watchdog and Maxnet are the first to voluntarily begin filtering the Internet under the govt's Digital Child Exploitation Filtering System.
The New Zealand govt's Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) ...
2009 – A ZeroPaid Year in Review – Part 2 of 3
We continue with our 2009 year in review with part two of our three part review. Part one of three.
May
May started off with several stories pretty much ...
2009 – A ZeroPaid Year in Review – Part 1 of 3
2008 was an interesting year in file-sharing and 2009 didn't necessarily disappoint. There was plenty of ways to look at it, but there is one way one can look ...
Parody of Conroy’s Controversial Australian Filtering Plan Surfaces
While the idea behind filtering the internet is no laughing matter, that doesn't stop satirists from making fun of the situation. A word of warning though, it's not advisable ...
Aussie ISPs: “Net Filtering Doesn’t Slow Connection Speeds”
Majority of participants in govt's blacklist trial report that customers experienced minimal speed disruptions.
Australia's Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Stephen Conroy is certainly happy these days ...
Australian Government to Finance Faulty Internet Filtering Technology
Apparently, keeping your fingers crossed is good enough for the Australian government who plans to use ISP-based filtering technology despite evidence saying it's a waste of time and money.
There's an ...
US Congress Passes Anti-Campus File-sharing Requirements
Despite a massive error in the MPAAs college campus piracy study revealed nearly three weeks ago, it appears that the US congress has passed an another pair of ...
