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Thousands march in Poland over Acta internet treaty
Prime Minister Donald Tusk says his government will on Thursday sign the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The treaty, known as Acta, aims to establish international standards to enforce intellectual property rights. But critics say it could curb freedom of expression, and government websites have been hacked in protest. Several marches took place in cities across the nation on Wednesday, says the BBC's Adam Easton in Warsaw. Crowds of mostly young people held banners with slogans such as "no to censorship" and "a free internet".. . -
New Internet Bill Uses “Protecting Children” as Ruse to Collect Personal Information
Under language approved 19 to 10 by a House committee, the firm that sells you Internet access would be required to track all of your Internet activity and save it for 18 months, along with your name, the address where you live, your bank account numbers, your credit card numbers, and IP addresses you've been assigned. Tracking the private daily behavior of everyone in order to help catch a small number of child criminals is itself the noxious practice of police states. Said an attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation: "The data retention mandate in this bill would treat every Internet user like a criminal and threaten the online privacy and free speech rights of every American." Even more troubling is what the government would need to do in order to access this trove of private information: ask for it. I kid you not -- that's it.More » -
SOPA Activism Moves Republicans More Than Democrats
You have an entire wired generation focused on this issue like a laser, fighting like hell to protect their online freedoms, and it’s FUCKING REPUBLICANS who are playing the heroes by dropping support? Those goddam Democrats would rather keep collecting their Hollywood checks, than heed the will of millions of Americans who have lent their online voice in an unprecedented manner. Are they really this stupid? Can they really be this idiotic? Are they really going to cede this issue to Republicans, hand them this massive public victory, then get left with nothing but public scorn when SOPA and PIPA go down in flames?. . -
Feds shut down Megaupload, charge owners with piracy
A day after sites like Wikipedia protested SOPA, federal prosecutors have shut down file-sharing site Megaupload.com and charged its founder and others with piracy, the Associated Press reports. The indictment puts the amount of lost revenue from Megaupload at $500 million, and says the site was once the 13th most popular website in the world. The company lists rapper and producer Swizz Beatz — the husband of Alicia Keys, who endorsed Megaupload — as their CEO. But the six defendants include Kim Dotcom, the site's founder, former CEO and chief innovation officer, and five others. Four, including Dotcom, have been arrested. . -
PIPA SUPPORTERS VIOLATE COPYRIGHT, TOO
Last week, I wrote something about the hypocritical copyright violations on SOPA author Lamar Smith's very own website. You might have seen it when it was featured on the Forbes, Time or Huffington Post websites, or, most likely, when Tyler, the Creator tweeted about it just now. I asked you guys to send me any other copyright violations you could find by supporters of Lamar's 'Stop Online Piracy Act'. To be honest, we thought the outcry surrounding the proposals had died down – there was talk that SOPA had been shelved, and Lamar's office hasn't been taking our calls – but earlier today, Lamar resurfaced to let us know that he still intends to use his bill to criminalise us all for posting the lyrics to "The Thong Song" on each other's Facebook pages.More » -
RIAA Vice President Responds To Internet Blackouts
Jonathan Lamy, RIAA's Senior Vice President of Communication, posted this tweet earlier today and has since deleted it. I don't know if “dick move” even begins to describe this.
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SOPA Will Take Us Back to the Dark Ages
I had an epiphany today. The Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, was not written by people who fundamentally misunderstand how the web works. They understand all too well, and want to change it forever.More » -
Facts Without Wikipedia
Beware what's on Twitter on this Wikipedia-free day.. . -
Wikipedia to black out all 3.8 million English-language pages to protest PIPA
Wikipedia is going black on Wednesday, January 18, to help fight the contentious Protect IP Act (PIPA), which is set to go for a vote before the Senate on January 24. The move, first reported by Neal Mann, digital news editor at Sky News, was announced by Jimmy Wales, co-founder of the far-reaching online encyclopedia, on Twitter. Wales says the blackout was a “community decision.”More » -
How to take down your site site for SOPA the right way
Use a 503 HTTP status code but read on for important details. Sometimes webmasters want to take their site offline for a day or so, perhaps for server maintenance or as political protest. We’re currently seeing some recommendations being made about how to do this that have a high chance of hurting how Google sees these websites and so we wanted to give you a quick how-to guide based on our current recommendations.. -
Help Stop SOPA/PIPA
You are an agent of change. Has anyone ever told you that? Well, I just did, and I meant it. Normally we stay away from from politics here at the official WordPress project — having users from all over the globe that span the political spectrum is evidence that we are doing our job and democratizing publishing, and we don’t want to alienate any of our users no matter how much some of us may disagree with some of them personally. Today, I’m breaking our no-politics rule, because there’s something going on in U.S. politics right now that we need to make sure you know about and understand, because it affects us all.More » -
Internet Blackout on Jan 18? Reddit will go dark in opposition to SOPA. Will Google and Facebook Follow?
The freedom, innovation, and economic opportunity that the Internet enables is in jeopardy. Congress is considering legislation that will dramatically change your Internet experience and put an end to reddit and many other sites you use everyday. Internet experts, organizations, companies, entrepreneurs, legal experts, journalists, and individuals have repeatedly expressed how dangerous this bill is. If we do nothing, Congress will likely pass the Protect IP Act (in the Senate) or the Stop Online Piracy Act (in the House), and then the President will probably sign it into law. There are powerful forces trying to censor the Internet, and a few months ago many people thought this legislation would surely pass. However, there’s a new hope that we can defeat this dangerous legislation. We’ve seen some amazing activism organized by redditors at /r/sopa and across the reddit community at large. You have made a difference in this fight; and as we near the next stage, and after much thought, talking with experts, and hearing the overwhelming voices from the reddit community, we have decided that we will be blacking out reddit on January 18th from 8am–8pm EST (1300–0100 UTC).More »
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