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Canada’s Election: A Review of the Green Party Platform on Digital Issues

We have finished reviewing all the parties that were elected in office last session. The digital issues of all those parties were interesting, even if they were surprisingly disappointing. ...

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Canada’s Election: A Review of the NDP Platform on Digital Issues

Our election coverage is continuing with the final party that held seats in parliament in the last session, the NDP. Just like the other parties, we are focusing on ...


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Canada’s Election: A Review of the Liberal Platform on Digital Issues

We've already reviewed the Conservative Party's platform on digital issues. Now we are reviewing the Liberal Party of Canada's platform on digital issues. Canada is in the midst ...

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Canada’s Election: A Review of the Conservative Platform on Digital Issues

Recently, Canada was called in to an election. Now that all the political parties are on the campaign trail, what are they promising to those who watch the copyright ...

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French Minister Uses Non-Existent Benefits to Sell LOPPSI 2 Legislation

LOPPSI 2, the surveillance legislation in France, has been making headlines recently given that the legislation has re-entered political debate in recent weeks. The Interior Minister reportedly was out ...


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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 ...

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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 ...

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Hadopi Mulling Mandatory Spyware to Help Enforce Three Strikes Law

Many questions have been raised on how HADOPI planned on enforcing a three strikes law. One particular question that really raises doubts on the possibility of enforcement is how ...

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EU Data Retention Implementation Deemed Unlawful By EU Authorities

Civil rights advocates have achieved a key victory in the fight against the European-wide data retention policy. A short report from EU authorities says, "European Data Protection Authorities find ...

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Website That Claims to Have Hacked ThePirateBay Vanishes

In what may be one of the strangest stories in a long time, a website claimed to have hacked BitTorrent website ThePirateBay and exposed 4 million user identities. But ...

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Swedish Appeals Court Orders ISP to Divulge SweTorrent Users Identities

There was an interesting ruling made recently in a Swedish court. After months of fighting in the Swedish court system, the court of appeals have ruled that TeliaSonera, a ...

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2009 – A ZeroPaid Year In Review – Part 3 of 3

We wrap things up with the last third of 2009. Part one. Part 2. September September started off with the continuation of the Jammie Thomas trial where ...

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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 ...

A New Zealand Political Party Wants Answers on ACTA

A New Zealand Political Party Wants Answers on ACTA

As time goes on, the list of lawmakers from around the world keeps getting longer. Recently, a lawmaker in New Zealand has been asking about what is going on ...

Google and the Privacy of the Cloud

Google and the Privacy of the Cloud

There has been a bit of an uproar about a recent quote by Google CEO Eric Schmidt.  While talking to CNBC, Schmidt remarked that, ...

ZeroPaid Interviews the Pirate Party of Canada

ZeroPaid Interviews the Pirate Party of Canada

If you asked a file-sharer in, say, 2005, if there would be a political party with a focus on, among other things, copyright and internet rights issues, you were more ...

French Pirate Party Has a Shot At Winning a Government Seat

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. ...

German Pirate Party to Win Several Seats in Germany!

German Pirate Party to Win Several Seats in Germany!

The Swedish Pirate Party winning one seat in the European Parliament was a major milestone for the party on the world stage. It inspired several people in different countries ...

Pirate Party Finland Officially Registered as a Political Party

Pirate Party Finland Officially Registered as a Political Party

Just like the UK Pirate Party, the Finnish counterpart has officially been registered as a political party. It seems that the movement of the pirate party keeps sailing on. ...

Australian Law Proposal to Turn ISPs Into Copyright Cops

Australian Law Proposal to Turn ISPs Into Copyright Cops

There's a disturbing new development in Australia. A law proposal was disclosed to the public that would get ISPs to spy on the contents of all communications to monitor ...

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