did on SOPA/ PIPA , citizens on a worldwide basis are preparing to speak out against the ACTA treaty. Loudly. Tomorrow (February 11), is being set aside as a day of global protest against ACTA and perhaps the newest enemy of the Internet, TPP. While these protests are largely focused in Europe, this is not just a problem facing citizens of the European Union. Keep in mind, ...

firmly against SOPA/ PIPA and any other Internet regulation the United States government introduces? It might look something like this, courtesy of the news section at YCombinator.com : Today's sysadmin todo list: 0. Get corporate membership with EFF. 1. Identify all applications with user-generated content. 2. Move all associated domains to a non-US based registrar. 3. Migrate ...

of SOPA and PIPA , file-sharing does not negatively impact box office sales in the U.S., according to a new study conducted by economists from Wellesley College and the University of Minnesota. The focus of the study is on lag times between U.S. release and foreign release. The study found that longer gaps between a movie's release in America and its release in foreign ...

out against SOPA, PIPA , and, of course, ACTA. Anonymous' latest round of victims included websites serving the Federal Trade Commission ( business.ftc.gov ), as well as the follow FTC consumer protection sites, Consumer.gov and NCPW.gov , which highlights National Consumer Protection Week. As of this posting, all of the sites are still down. As is normally the case, Anonymous ...

Is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement treaty, otherwise known as ACTA, compatible with what is referred to as the EU's "fundamental rights and freedoms?" Some EU officials are asking that very question, and to help determine the answer, EU trade chief Karel De Gucht indicated the highly-flammable " at least from a social sense " piece of

What you're seeing is a screenshot of what happens when you try to access the CIA's website " CIA.gov " as of the time of this posting. As per usual, Anonymous is taking credit for the takedown. No, the outage probably won't last for a long period of time, but even if Anonymous is erroneously taking credit for the site being down, the connection is

Have all the anti-ACTA protests started to sway European politicians? Maybe this weekend's plans for mass protest is what did it, but there does appear to be some headway being made against the overreaching attempts at Internet regulation that have permeated throughout the collective social conscious. According to various reports, Germany will not be

Did this past weekend's anti-ACTA movement in Europe get their message across to the ruling governments? While the fallout is still being measured, at least one country has decided to say "no" to the treaty, putting them with the small, but growing group of foreign governments that, at least at this point, have rejected ACTA. The latest country to deny

action like SOPA, PIPA , ACTA, and the shutdown of MegaUpload are designed to curb so-called piracy, those who are intent on sharing copyrighted material have proven themselves extremely capable when it comes to finding a way around measures designed to thwart them. During last month's SOPA blackout, The Pirate Bay insisted that they would survive any legislative attempts to ...

laws like SOPA and PIPA . The Pirate Bay isn't one to stand for it and published a piece on TorrentFreak in response to the RIAA. "Winston" comes out swinging fast and hard by saying that Glazier's use of the term "copyright theft" is incorrect. Winston is about to jump into semantics, so be prepared: A small lesson to Mr Glazier: If someone steals something, you ...