Senator: Web censorship bill a "bunker-busting cluster bomb"
The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA, S.3804) sets up a system through which the US government can blacklist a pirate website from the Domain Name System, ban credit card companies from processing US ...
Lawyer wants "Goliath verdict" against RIAA in abuse trial
While the RIAA has stopped its mass litigation campaign against file-swappers, cases in progress persist. Tanya Andersen's is one of the oddest and most intriguing, and it's set to proceed to trial against the RIAA next year on c......
Manhunt! LimeWire, RIAA both search for "Pirate Edition" creator
Last week, hacker "MetaPirate" and his "horde of piratical monkeys" released LimeWire: Pirate Edition to the world. The program took all the file-sharing features of the popular LimeWire Pro and made them free of charge and fr...
P2P lawyers face discipline for demanding cash from innocents
Before ACS Law became famous (and then infamous) for suing alleged file-swappers in the UK, another law firm called Davenport Lyons blazed the trail. Now, two partners from that firm face accusations that they proceeded reckless...
Pirate-slaying censorship bill gets unanimous support
The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) sets up a system through which the US government can blacklist a pirate website from the Domain Name System, ban credit card companies from processing US payments to ...
Swedes detain Wikileaks founder in absentia
The Swedes are going after Wikileaks founder Julian Assange again, and the government has now issued an international warrant for his arrest.
In a hearing today at Stockholm District Court, Public Prosecutor Marianne Ny request...
UK to ISPs: Prioritize away! (so long as you tell users)
Europe, and the UK in particular, has long championed the view that its countries don't really need net neutrality regulations because they have more ISP competition (unlike those poor schlubs in the US). If consumers don't like...
How China swallowed 15% of ‘Net traffic for 18 minutes
In a 300+ page report (PDF) today, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission provided the US Congress with a detailed overview of what's been happening in China—including a curious incident in which 15 perc...
TSA boss: Our pat-downs turn up "artfully concealed objects"
At a Senate oversight hearing today, Transportation Security Administration head John Pistole explained that TSA agents really do need to encounter testicular resistance when performing their newly enhanced airport pat-downs. Si...
Bill would nuke Visa cards, Adwords, DNS records for pirates
Watch out Google, Visa, and the domain name system—Congress has all of you in its sights.
Now that the midterm elections in the US are over, the Senate this week will again take up S. 3804, the Combating Online Infringeme......
Is your ISP throttling you? Just switch—if you live in the EU
Europe doesn't have a net neutrality problem. If you don't believe me, just ask the Internet providers.
"There appears to be consensus among network operators, internet service providers (ISPs) and infrastructure manufacturers...
Google: ‘Net censorship amounts to undeclared trade war
Back in 2007, when one of the perennial Greek/Turk spats flared up again online, some hothead had a terrific idea: why not create a home video claiming that modern Turkey's founder, Kemal Ataturk, was gay—and that everyone...
