The global protests against the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Act (ACTA) seem to have left their mark on state leaders, the latest country to pull back being Germany. While they didn’t clearly state that they were against ACTA, German officials decided to postpone their decision on whether or not th... |
11 February 2012
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While some anti-ACTA protests take place in the real world, some still believe that distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks are the best way to show their disapproval against the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
As a result, French anti-piracy outfit Hadopi and others are named as targ... |
6 February 2012
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While many hackers decided to protest against the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) by trying to raise awareness and by calling people to physical protest, some hacktivists still prefer the good old fashion way.
Voice Of Grey Hat informs that Teamgreyhat, the hacker collective that’s kn... |
4 February 2012
06:18 GMT |
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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA as many of us know it, is highly debated and protested against these days, but few know that a lot of the anti-ACTA arguments are highly inaccurate.
Since the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was abandoned, Internet users from all over the world turned their attention to... |
1 February 2012
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After operations against the drug lords from the Zetas cartel were postponed, Anonymous Mexico turned its attention to other problems such as the anti-piracy law currently proposed by the country’s government.
According to RT, the sites of the Senate and the Interior Ministry were temporarily taken offline as ... |
30 January 2012
05:58 GMT |
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A 22-year-old student from Poland was arrested after being suspected of breaching and defacing the official website of the country’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk, as part of the anti-ACTA online protests.
According to VOGH, Lucasz S. was apprehended in the city of Wrocla, but denied having any involvement with t... |
30 January 2012
04:59 GMT |
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After news got out that the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) was signed by 22 European Union member countries, plans to protest intensified, but for now, distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks were replaced with more diplomatic approaches.
Before the agreement was signed Anonymous hacke... |
28 January 2012
06:58 GMT |
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Things are cooling off when it comes to the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), but now another similar agreement, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), may be signed and activist from both online and the real world are preparing to make their voices heard.
While the ... |
26 January 2012
10:16 GMT |
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Douwe Korff and Ian Brown, members of the Greens/European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament, officially stated their opinion regarding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) as it is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights & the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Recently, eig... |
7 October 2011
02:57 GMT |
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The Internet as we know it may not be the same even a year from now, at least, if the current secret negotiations between the US, EU and several other countries turn out to be successful, as it looks very likely they'll be. The Internet changes all the time, it's part of its nature, mostly though, it's... |
22 February 2010
11:38 GMT |
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Be careful what you feed that iPod from now on, as new copyright protection laws allegedly give border guards the right to seize iPods and mobile phones suspected of containing illegally-downloaded contents."...reports claim the Canadian government is secretly negotiating to join the US and the EU in an Anti-Counterf... |
28 May 2008
16:06 GMT |
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