Guide: Bandwidth Caps, What Speed Are You Really Getting?
When it comes to internet connection speeds, ISPs often advertise some blazing fast speeds - sometimes at a fairly cheap rate. Unfortunately, a lot of these deals come with ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Canada’s Usage Based Billing Hearings Kicks Off
In a way, it's surprising that Canada is still talking about Usage Based Billing. Yet, here we are today with the CRTC (Canada's regulator for industries like this) holding ...
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 ...
Anonymous Posts ISP Source Code to Retaliate Against Censorship
Previously, Anonymous has leaked details of the Orange Country Democrats. Now, it seems, they have decided to post source code and blacklist data of a Dutch ISP ...
Government to Blame for US Living in Stone Age of Internet Connectivity – Report
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There's a fascinating piece on Engadget that discusses at length why many Europeans are ...
Anonymous and LulzSec’s Existence Scares ISP into Halting Web Censorship
LulzSec has certainly had an effect on many around the world. Love them or hate them, it's next to impossible to deny that they have caught the attention of ...
Canadian Political Parties Clarify Their Positions on Copyright
It'll be May 2nd when Canadians head to the polls, and the positions on copyright can be rather muddied at times. That makes the CCA posting on political parties ...
Canada’s Election: A Review of the Bloc Platform on Digital Issues
We continue our platform election review on the Bloc Québécois party platform. As always, we are focusing specifically on copyright and privacy related issues.
We've already reviewed the ...
New Secret Trade Agreement Could Create Global Three Strikes Law
ACTA May not have gone over as well as the US would have hoped, but that doesn't stop any new secret agreement from forming. Among the provisions inside the ...
Canadian ISPs Start Rolling Out Bandwidth Caps, Higher Fees
If you download Linux ISOs, stream movies from Netflix, listen to podcasts, play online games, or are grabbing the latest open source software such as Open Office, Gimp or FireFox, ...
French ISPs and French Government Locking Horns Over HADOPI Costs
There's a major battle brewing between the French government and the French ISPs. A line is being drawn and it's about the money. While this was foreseeable thanks ...
RIAA Record Label Founder Says Internet Not Music’s Enemy
Just shortly after Stevie Nicks said that the Internet has destroyed rock, the founder of Elektra Records, an RIAA record label according to RIAA Radar, says that music ...
French Government and ISPs Negotiating Who Foots Approx. $64 Million USD a Year HADOPI Bill
When it comes to enforcing a three strikes law, one of the more immediate things that don't come to mind is how expensive it could be to enforce. For ...
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 ...
Digital Economy Act – Consumers to Foot the Bill for Enforcement
There's plenty of things wrong with the Digital Economy Act. One of the major flaws is that ISPs would have to pay for the cost of enforcing the Digital ...
Are ISPs The Biggest Obstacle to a Three Strikes Law?
With a big push for a three strikes law, many people have a seemingly unlikely ally - ISPs. Yes, it's the same ISPs that want to throttle users, charge ...
Canada Launches Digital Economy Consultation
After what appears to be the governments own undoing for launching a copyright consultation and ignoring the results, the Canadian government is now launching a second consultation on Canada's Digital ...
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 ...
