is 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. ...

unwilling to let SOPA go quietly into the night. An article published last night on RT reports that Reid may be trying to resurrect SOPA by couching it within a new cyber-security bill. Worse, the new bill would also reawaken the proposed Kill Switch bill from last year. Kill Switch, another Internet-regulating bill that was lobbied by Sen. Joel Lieberman, would instill the ...

On Wednesday, the Secret Service seized the JotForm.com domain and left hundreds of thousands of websites with "broken" forms. Although it was the Secret Service that initiated the investigation, it was Go Daddy (JotForm's domain registrar) that suspended the domain without warning. JotForm, which provides a WYSIWYG web form creator and hosting for the

And for all you SOPA /ACTA watchers out there, Tyrannicon even added something of a copyright disclaimer, one that extols the virtues of fair use: Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by ...

blackout 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 ...

so adamant about SOPA only targeting foreign sites . Clearly, he knew the Megaupload takedown was coming, and as a result, foreign web entities would fill the hole " almost immediately " that a seized Megaupload left behind. DeepField also offers graphics to back up their findings: Of course, as indicated earlier, these are lessons we've already learned when Napster was ...

other supporters 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 ...

speak 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, ...

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 ...

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