New Bill to Clamp Down on Italian Bloggers
The term, "paragraph 29" might not mean much for a number of bloggers unless you are an Italian blogger. In that case, the term "paragraph 29" is a part ...
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ASCAP Continues Its War on Free Culture
Last month, ASCAP issued a letter hoping to collect donations to fight the copyleft movement. After severe backlash both externally and internally for saying that organizations like ...
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 ...
Burst.net Statement Confirms Blogetery.com Shutdown Related to Terrorism
Earlier today, we debunked rumors that Blogetery.com was shut down due to an anti-piracy effort headed by ICE and reported that it was an FBI investigation ...
ASCAP Declares War on Free Culture
The free culture movement is abuzz today over news that ASCAP has requested their members to fight organizations like Creative Commons, Public Knowledge and the Electronic Frontier Foundation over what ...
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 ...
French Pirate Party Has a Shot At Winning a Government Seat
If the Pirate Party manages to snag a seat in the September 20th by-election, France could become the third country to have an elected member in a government office. ...
US Web Hosting Company Sued for Contributing to Infringement
You would think that the DMCA safe harbour provision would protect a web hosting company from the actions of their customers. That's not what a judge and jury found ...
French Broadcaster Sued for Firing Employee Based on HADOPI Stance
It was the story of an e-mail heard around the world. You may remember Jérôme Bourreau-Guggenheim who expressed opposition in an e-mail to his member of parliament. ...
Canadian Surveillance Legislation Dissected – Bill C-46
The new surveillance legislation in Canada has been causing waves, but today, we are finally able to actually read the legislation for the first time and the two bills contain ...
Will Pirate Party TOR Nodes Be Used for More Than Iranian Free Speech?
There's been particularly distressing news being reported today from 5 different countries for those who have believed in civil rights on the internet. Meanwhile, it seems that the Pirate ...
Report – Russian Police Chief Wants Internet Anonymity Abolished
On the heals of the first ever Russian raid against a BitTorrent site, the Russian interior minister is now demanding that an anonymous internet should be abolished according ...
Famous Swedish Writer – Why I’m Voting Pirate Party
Freedom of expression, digital rights and privacy in a digital era. How many people knew topics like that would be a critical election issue in Europe 25 years ago? ...
Australian Internet Filtering Plan Will Be Mandatory for Everyone – No Opt-Out
After the internet filtering trial, there will be no such thing as opting out of the internet filters.
The internet filtering plan from Australia seems to keep getting more and more ...
UK MP Requests Feedback from Public Over Website Ratings Idea
While it's something occurring in Britain, it also could affect talks between Britain and the United States too.
Controversy erupted yesterday over a plan to classify internet websites in ...
British Minister In Discussions With Obama to Filter Internet to ‘Protect the Children’
Britain and the United States next in line to filter the internet while saying the internet is nothing more than a broadcaster?
Last week, we posted a relatively thorough ...
French Digital Rights Advocates Decry Telecom Package’s ‘Gradual Response’
Says that the current telecoms package would violate basic civil rights in Europe.
A little over a week ago, we reported on the French Prime Minister overruling democracy and ...
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 ...
Canadian Lawful Access Debate Returns
The Canadian Lawful Access debate was about as cold as the snow still lingering in the far north; but like the snow in some parts in Canada, the debate is ...
