Operation Black March: An Anonymous Movement
Hacktivist group Anonymous has called for Operation Black March, a movement against the media industry. Unfortunately, it might not be as successful as others think.
As you may know, SOPA and ...
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Really?! The FBI May Soon Monitor Social Networks
The FBI has submitted a request for the creation of software that will search through "publicly available" information on social networks in order to discover emerging threats.
After shutting down Megaupload, ...
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 ...
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 ...
US Cell Phone Service Provider Shuts Down Services to Disrupt Potential Protest
There's some disturbing news coming out of the United States. BART, a San Francisco cell phone service provider that provides cellphone services for subways, shut down all services after ...
UK PM Wants to “Stop People from Communicating” on Social Media
The riots in Britain has certainly been a story major media outlets around the world have been following closely, but recent comments by British Prime Minister David Cameron on the ...
Guide: How to Defeat US DNS Censorship (Using DNS Web Tools)
In our previous guide, we showed you how it is possible to defeat basic web censorship solely using things you already have on a Windows machine. Unfortunately, ...
AFACT Accused of Extorting ISPs to Import Three Strikes Law to Australia
Some interesting things coming out of Australia this week. It seems that AFACT (Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft) is attempting to pressure ISPs into implementing a three strikes law ...
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 ...
Public Domain Website Forced Offline Over Copyright Complaint
A DMCA complaint to GoDaddy has forced a website offline. It's not your typical copyright complaint though. This website specializes in content that has been put in the ...
Breaking: Multiple Activists and Members of the Pirate Party Arrested
ZeroPaid has just learned that multiple web activists and members of the Pirate Party have been arrested in the midst of free speech protests in Tunisia recently. ...
CIA Sets Up the WTF to Assess Impact of Wikileaks
The Wikileaks drama has been unfolding for a while now, but it has now taken a rather humorous turn recently. The CIA is reportedly launching what it ...
Editorial: A UN Controlled Internet Should Never Happen
Earlier today, ZeroPaid reported on the development that some members of the United Nations are demanding that the UN should have the power to control the internet. ...
Why the US Government Attacking Wikileaks is a Bad Idea
Wikileaks was dominating the headlines last week. In fact, it was kind of hard to miss the news story about the Wikileaks diplomatic cables because all one really had to ...
In Response to Graham Henderson of CRIA
Graham of the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) recently went to Washington to speak about Canadian copyright laws. He had one particular comment that is worth responding to.
The story ...
Copyright Infringement Litigation Campaign Now Sees Senator Candidate As Latest Victim
News and commentary often go hand in hand. That's not untrue when it comes to political news. Proving not only that large litigation campaigns aren't just for file-sharers ...
Australian Net Filter Dead?
Not a lot of news is happening in Australia lately regarding the mandatory web filtering. So we decided to find out if anything has happened lately. Turns out, ...
US Net Neutrality Supporters Get New Ally – Democrats
The network neutrality debate has been getting very heated in the US. A Verizon-Google agreement drew heavy criticism from proponents of network neutrality. Now, it seems, that four ...
Drew Wilson Appears on Australias Radio Show ‘The Fourth Estate’
The shut down of 73,000 blogs certainly had a lot of people talking. The story made international headlines and, as a result, we here at ZeroPaid had the opportunity ...
