The New Zealand Government's Copyright Amendment Act, also known as the Skynet law, which came into effect on September 1, starts showing its powers, recently a large number of ISPs being requested to provide the identities of account holders that hide behind certain IP addresses.
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2 November 2011
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Right now, the most talked about topic in the UK is the one regarding file sharing and the agreement between the BPI, the Government and major ISPs to combat online piracy. No matter if you support the measures or if you simply feel strongly against them, it is important to make your opinion heard, and this is exactl... |
29 July 2008
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As of last week, an agreement has been reached between the BPI, the Motion Picture Association, the UK Government and six major Internet service providers (BT, Virgin, Carphone Warehouse, Orange, Tiscali and BskyB), agreement that states all of them will work together to fight illegal file sharing. One of the first m... |
28 July 2008
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Since the core audience of the newly released Batman movie is made up mainly of tech savvy, PC oriented people, it became imperative for Warner Bros to enforce tight security measures so that a pirated copy of the movie would not leak out on the Internet and spoil the official launch. If a pirated copy were to hit th... |
28 July 2008
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Arxan, a company that provides software solutions that ensure applications are not tampered with, has recently joined the Federation Against Software Theft and by doing so it became the proud member of one of the first organizations in the world to fight against online piracy. The main goal of the Federation is to pr... |
11 July 2008
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A few days ago, we were reporting that the EU Parliament would submit Telecom Package to voting. The law in itself was not such a big threat to online privacy, but the amendments were and consequently, numerous privacy watchdogs promptly reacted. Well, it seems that the members of the Parliament voted in favor of th... |
9 July 2008
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Today the European Parliament will vote on the Telecom Packet, as the law is commonly referred to. Although the law itself is meant to regulate the European telecommunications market, the amendments to the law target online piracy; if on three separate occasions you are caught downloading or uploading copyrighted mat... |
7 July 2008
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Daniel Dove is a 26 year old guy from Virginia who spends his time working as an upload administrator for popular tracker EliteTorrents. He was taken into custody after Operation D-Elite (that's what the FBI dubbed it), trialled in a court of law and found guilty of copyright infringement. Although the sentence... |
1 July 2008
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