More than 30,000 websites are not happy over a reintroduced Internet security bill in the U.S. Congress.
Thousands of websites, including Craigslist and Reddit, have joined forces to oppose the moot cybersecurity bill Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).
Tuesday last week the anti-CISPA movement started to display an interactive banner from the Internet Defense League.
The ad banner shows how voters can send a message to their local members of Congress: “CISPA is back. This …

Facebook still mulls over support for the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protecting Act (CISPA), a moot bill reintroduced by the U.S. Congress.
The social network has not completely dropped support for the controversial bill, because it wants to take caution on how lawmakers navigate CISPA.
The bill debuted last year, and Facebook was on its initial list of warm supporters. But the updated list of firms that fervently endorse the bill no longer includes the social network and a few other …

Google reveals that most of the requests for removal of links for copyright violations are those for Microsoft products (Image: DavidWees (CC) via Flickr)

A Google report reveals that most of the complaints about copyright infringements come from Microsoft. Even more than those from entertainment companies, who are mainly responsible for pushing piracy laws online like SOPA.
Google released this information last Thursday. All requests for removing content that violates copyright laws since …

BTJunkie Closed by Founders / Image via BTJunkie.org

Founders of the famous tracker BTJunkie today decided to close the site after seven years of existence. The decision was made voluntarily, probably to avoid a fate similar to that of the website The Pirate Bay or Megaupload.
On the main page of the famous tracker BTJunkie.org today appeared a farewell message, in which the site’s founders explain the decision to permanently close the portal. After seven years of existence in the …

Anonymous has directed its hack attacks at several government websites in Ireland after local authorities vowed to change copyright laws in the country.
The Irish government proposed that it would amend the European country’s copyright infringement laws hot on the heels of controversial legislations such as SOPA, PIPA and just recently, ACTA, only to discover that online accounts have been posting statements regarding Anonymous hack attacks on government-owned websites (.ie suffixes).
The …

Anonymous has turned its head towards an international treaty that could pose more threat than the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the US Congress, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
The written agreement, however, has already gathered its own growing list of critics, with several ministers in Europe hesitating to attach signatures and the European Green Party considering it dangerously critical to human rights.
According to ACTA, media rights owners …

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Probably, all of us are aware that when we want something when we know that we cannot have it. At this desire must also add the advertising that participants at the anti-SOPA blackout have enjoyed and of this equation results an incredible increase in traffic.
During the day of the protest, Wikipedia was the UK the eighth most visited website, a pretty high position considering that everything posted was a black page with a message about Internet freedom.
According to …

PIPA or Protect IP Act is a draft law proposed in the U.S. Senate that would give unprecedented power to the U.S. Government and the copyright holders over the websites suspected of violating these rights, including sites outside the U.S. The vote for PIPA approval will take place on January 24, 2012.
SOPA is a very similar version of the law proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives. On January 15, 2012, the hearings were postponed until reaching a consensus about what are the expectations …

Microblogging website Twitter and other opponents of the hotly debated anti-piracy SOPA legislation won’t join the scheduled blackout on Wednesday, January 18th, by Wikepedia, Reddit, and other websites in protest of the bill.
 
SOPA, the Stop Internet Piracy Act, would make it illegal to stream unauthorized content but is being slammed by many major web players, and now the public, as undermining the way the web works and severely constraining free speech because of unclear language.  …

English edition of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on Wednesday will enter a 24-hour blackout as a protest measure against the anti-piracy draft law in the U.S.
According to a statement released by Wikimedia Foundation, quoted by Bloomberg, the movement is protesting against the law in general, but especially against Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
Draft law is designed to combat illegal copying of movies and TV shows. If it passes, this law will harm the Internet and would definitely create …