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After Netflix revealed the existence of the political action committee FLIXPAC, many voices raised concerns regarding the fact that the move may be a way to show support for controversial anti-piracy laws such as SOPA or PIPA. Even though the company denied the accusations, Anonymous are determined to protest.
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11 April 2012
10:52 GMT |
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SOPA may be gone, for now, but it's effects are still felt, thankfully, by those that deserve it. Wikipedia has just announced that it has finished the transition of all of its domains to MarkMonitor, a domain registrar, and away from GoDaddy, which openly supported SOPA at first.Wikipedia says that it was looki... |
10 March 2012
09:21 GMT |
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It seems that the Anonymous attacks and the protest that have taken place in Ireland didn’t have much effect, the Minister for Research and Innovation Sean Sherlock revealing that the European Union (Copyright and Related Rights) Regulations 2012, also known as the Irish SOPA, became a law.
The Journal reports... |
1 March 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Anonymous hackers managed to gain access to the official website of the Irish government’s Department of Foreign Affairs, obtaining passwords used by employees and officials. Some of the passwords were used to administrate the website Irish Aid, an overseas development program.
According to The Journal, member... |
3 February 2012
06:27 GMT |
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Unnamed hackers managed to breach the website of Universal Music Portugal, publishing in a Pastebin document all the information they could find in their databases.
Cyberwarnews reports that 314 valid email addresses, usernames and passwords, all in clear-text, were made available by the hackers.
Shortly after the... |
2 February 2012
08:51 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
04:25 GMT |
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Piracy is one of the biggest long-term problems for the video game industry but for Rovio, the company that created the hit Angry Birds concept, the phenomenon has a number of upsides that can, in the long term, help the popularity of its products. Mikael Hed, a leading executive working at Rovio, told the audience ... |
31 January 2012
17:51 GMT |
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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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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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A piracy law prepared by Ireland, compared by many with the US Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), caused a lot of concern among the country’s Internet users and Anonymous hacktivists have already begun attacking government websites as a form of protest.
According to the Irish Times, distributed denial of service (DDOS) ... |
26 January 2012
10:43 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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A video statement allegedly released by Anonymous on January 23 calls supporters to the continuation of Operation Blackout, appointing the next target as being the popular social media website Facebook. However, official Anonymous channels deny the claims, questioning the clip’s legitimacy. The video looks leg... |
24 January 2012
13:31 GMT |
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OnGuard Online, a website run by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), has been shut down by Anonymous hacktivists as a continuation of the protests that have taken place in the past days. The hackers not only defaced the website, but also leaked some data from their servers, allegedly belonging to the members of th... |
24 January 2012
09:23 GMT |
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Since news got out that Megaupload had been closed and some of their administrators arrested, Anonymous hackers called all their supporters to launch massive distributed denial of service attacks against government websites and the ones owned by the media industry and their representatives.
We managed to get in touc... |
20 January 2012
06:08 GMT |
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SOPA was definitely in the spotlight yesterday thanks to the large number of websites that protested against it, starting with Google and Wikipedia. The aim of the move was to spur action and to have people contact their elected representatives, sign petitions and generally have their voices heard.And what better pla... |
19 January 2012
16:21 GMT |
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The internet banded together yesterday to protest the SOPA and PIPA bills that threaten to severely undermine the web as we know it. Some sites censored parts of their content, had banners or ribbons, some even went down entirely. Wikipedia managed to get eight million people interested enough in the matter to look ... |
19 January 2012
10:21 GMT |
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The anti-SOPA blackout day has passed. Wikipedia is back to normal and most sites have resumed their activity. Wikipedia, which implemented a blackout yesterday, albeit not a very strong one, is now congratulating itself and the ones that took action for a job well done.
"The Wikipedia blackout is over — and y... |
19 January 2012
06:41 GMT |
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A lot of websites are joining the SOPA blackouts or the protests today, many are large sites, such as Mozilla or Wikipedia, so they've taken precautions to ensure that the move won't prove detrimental to their ranking.
Even smaller sites that have used Google's guidelines should be safe. But there are... |
18 January 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Mozilla has joined the fray and is implementing a blackout of the entire Mozilla.org site in protest of SOPA and PIPA, the two ill-conceived anti-piracy laws that threaten the very fabric of the internet. Mozilla.org is one of the top 10 websites in the world and joins Wikipedia.org, another top 10 site, in implem... |
18 January 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Wikipedia is protesting the SOPA and PIPA bills, two very ugly pieces of legislation that threaten the wellbeing of the internet, globally. That's all fine and dandy, but a lot of people would still like to access the site and may rely on it for plenty of things that can't wait for a full day.
Luckily, eve... |
18 January 2012
09:01 GMT |
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Both WordPress.org and WordPress.com are joining the protest against the abusive SOPA and PIPA bills. They're doing it in different ways, but you are very likely to notice the protests if you use any of the two sites.
But bloggers using either WordPress.com or their own WordPress install can join in as well, by... |
18 January 2012
08:15 GMT |
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Today, January 18th, the openSUSE and Fedora websites are on strike against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (PROTECT IP Act). While the Fedora Project website only displays a text saying "The Fedora Project does not promote internet censorship. Help stop SOPA and PIPA.", the openSUSE website is already redirec... |
18 January 2012
07:37 GMT |
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Wikipedia has gone ahead and blacked-out the site in protest of SOPA and PIPA. Any page on the English Wikipedia redirects to a notification page explaining that the site has been 'taken down' for 24 hours and urging people to find out more about it. Wikipedia joins several other big websites and companies... |
18 January 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Today, on January 18, a lot of major websites, including Google, Reddit and Wikipedia, have shut down their regular activities or posted protest banners to show their solidarity with the anti-SOPA movement. Security experts warn that this may be a great opportunity for cybercriminals to launch their own SOPA-related ... |
18 January 2012
04:46 GMT |
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Microsoft is one of the companies that oppose the passage of the SOPA bill, the Redmond-based software giant has confirmed. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) - aka House Bill 3261 or H.R. 3261 – was introduced in the United States House of Representatives in late October last year. The bill would result in ... |
18 January 2012
04:09 GMT |
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Several big websites and web companies have banded together to protest SOPA and PIPA, the two anti-piracy bills that threaten to do a lot more bad than good. Google has been a strong critic of SOPA, one of the few really big web companies that is doing so, unlike say Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon and so on.
Google is now... |
18 January 2012
03:53 GMT |
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Records have revealed that the Entertainment Software Association has spent up to 190,000 dollars (149,000 Euro) during 2011 in order to lobby in favor of the Protect IP Act, with at least four transactions linked to lobby groups that have discussed a range of matters with members of the United States Congress.It see... |
17 January 2012
22:11 GMT |
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Wikipedia is going ahead with plans to take down the entire English site in protest to the SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills. The English Wikipedia will be inaccessible for a full day on January 18th, not just for those in the US, but globally.
Wikipedia argues that this is needed to raise awareness of the issues and ... |
17 January 2012
06:04 GMT |
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SOPA has been put aside for now, or so it seems, but several major websites are still going through with the blackout protest. Smaller websites have joined in as well. Taking down your site in protest is somewhat extreme, but it clearly raises attention.
There may be other, more peaceful reasons for taking down a we... |
17 January 2012
03:11 GMT |
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As the date for Congress hearings and a possible vote for the Stop Online Piracy Act is approaching a number of video game companies have stated their opposition to the law and said that they would take public action to show it.The highest profile initiative comes from Markus Person, aka Notch, who said that he plans... |
16 January 2012
21:51 GMT |
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It seems that the 'danger' has passed, after losing much of its momentum in the past few weeks, the White House has dealt a final blow to the much-maligned SOPA bill, by saying that it, which means President Barack Obama, will not support a bill that "reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity r... |
16 January 2012
09:01 GMT |
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Nvidia has released a statement regarding its position on the Stop Online Piracy Act, saying that, while it opposes piracy, the law proposal isn’t the right way to fight such a phenomenon.
The whole gaming industry has been rocked by the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill currently in discussion at the U.S.... |
13 January 2012
14:11 GMT |
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The hacktivist collective and the social news site Reddit revealed their plans to black out their websites for 12 hours on January 18 as a form of protest against the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Reddit representatives wrote on the site’s blog about their intentions of shutting down website act... |
13 January 2012
08:46 GMT |
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Anonymous Finland took down the official website of the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (antipiracy.fi) and the one belonging to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (ifpi.fi) after the former organization obtained a court order that forced one of the country’s biggest IPSs to ... |
10 January 2012
09:48 GMT |
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Epic Games, the developer behind massively successful franchises like Gears of War or Unreal Tournament, not to mention the ubiquitous Unreal Engine technology, has revealed its stance on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), saying that it doesn’t support the bill in its current form.
SOPA is a bill currently up... |
9 January 2012
03:09 GMT |
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After on January 3 all their Twitter followers witnessed that Pastebin.com was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, two days later the website’s owners published a similar post.
“Pastebin is under DDOS attack again guys, working on it..” read a tweet.
“Pastebin should b... |
7 January 2012
05:13 GMT |
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A hacker that claims to be part of Anonymous allegedly breached the website of Sony Pictures and also managed to take over their Facebook profile. The cybercriminals called S3rver.exe, Anonnerd and N3m35151 even posted a couple of YouTube videos to prove the success of the operation. Anonymous did threaten Sony for ... |
6 January 2012
04:52 GMT |
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A hacker called Phsy managed to breach the official website of the State of Vermont (vermont.gov) as a form of protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), leaking mailing lists, server logins and other information.
“These Bills Harm our Once Uncensored Internet. Could Shutdown sites like @twitter, Reddi... |
23 December 2011
08:04 GMT |
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Members of the infamous hacktivist collective released a video statement in which they accuse GoDaddy, the Internet domain seller, of supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
“We have taken notice to your support of the United States Government's attempt to censor and control the internet. We are ta... |
23 December 2011
04:49 GMT |
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The web is under threat from the very objectionable SOPA bill that is in the process of becoming law in the US. It's not just the web in the US, since so many websites and crucial components of the internet and the web are housed in the US, SOPA will affect the web globally.
There's been a lot of criticism... |
13 December 2011
05:21 GMT |
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After a Russian news agency informed the world on the fact that Kaspersky is about to withdraw its membership from Business Software Alliance (BSA), Eugene Kaspersky, the man behind the renowned security solutions provider, came forward with a statement confirming the fact that his company doesn’t approve of th... |
7 December 2011
02:38 GMT |
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Kaspersky, the world renowned security solutions provider, decided to break the partnership it had with Business Software Alliance (BSA) after the latter indicated its support for the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
According to TorrentFreak, BSA showed some concerns regarding SOPA, but that might only ... |
5 December 2011
08:42 GMT |
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The matter of taking down domains that are believed by the US authorities to promote and sustain piracy was heavily criticized by the European Parliament which adopted a resolution to state their disapproval of this certain section included in the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).According to TorrentFreak, while the med... |
18 November 2011
05:57 GMT |
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The much-debated Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has attracted the attention of the infamous hacktivist collective which claims Congress will pay if they pass the bill which they consider to be a violation of the constitutional rights.
“You claim that the bill is being passed to prevent online piracy, but anyone... |
17 November 2011
08:03 GMT |
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Internet and tech companies in general have been quite worried about a couple of proposed laws that are going through the legislative process in the US right now. PROTECT IP and SOPA as the two bills are dubbed would give copyright owners huge powers over any website with almost no limits on how they can wield it.
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16 November 2011
08:34 GMT |
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