January 18th, 2012 3:15pm
mike s
In line with the web-wide protests taking place today, Google has issued a strong statement voicing its opposition to the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House.
Google say that these bills won’t get rid of pirate sites, arguing that offenders would just change their addresses in order to continue their criminal activities.
The search engine giant says that are ‘better ways to address piracy than to ask U.S. companies to censor the Internet.’
Read their full argument below:
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January 18th, 2012 8:00am
mike s
Today (Jan 18th) sees what is being billed as ‘the largest internet protest in history’ as websites show their opposition against the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its sibling the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the US.
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January 17th, 2012 9:15am
mike s
Wikipedia has announced that it will be lending its weight to the campaign against two bloody awful internet censorship bills currently being considered in the US.
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January 17th, 2012 9:00am
Lee J.
Campaigning US site Stop American Censorship has created an infographic explaining how two proposed bills in the US - PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House – are being pushed through against the wishes of the ‘vast majority of Americans.’
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Free app distributor GetJar has responded angrily to Apple after lawyers for the tech giant sent them a ‘cease and desist letter‘ over their use of the term ‘app store.’
Head honcho Patrick (Mad) Mork let rip in a blog post, insisting that Apple claiming ownership of the term ‘app store’ was – in his words – ”taking the piss.” Way to go Partick!
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After dismally failing to get Amazon slapped down for having the audacity to use the universally recognised term ‘app store’ for their Android Appstore, Apple’s pugnacious lawyers have decided to pick on smaller fry, in the shape of the third-party app store GetJar.
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Here’s one battle the ever-litigious, cash-heavy Apple failed to win, with a federal judge in the US telling them to bog off over a claim that they owned the term, ‘App Store.’
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Already stinking rich before they began, Harvard-educated twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss famously claimed that the idea for Facebook was stolen from them by Mark Zuckerberg.
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Anyone looking to install Apple’s iTunes software on their computer is presented with a request to trawl through a ridiculously hefty 56 pages of fine print, detailing every conceivable term and condition of use.
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Plaid Cymru candidate Colin Elsbury, the former mayor of Caerphilly, south Wales has become the first Brit to lose a libel case based on a Twitter entry.
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To the sound of a million keyboards clicking the ‘uninstall’ button, the popular file-sharing service LimeWire has been shut down.
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With Apple losing a hefty $600 million patent court case against Mirror World and just about every major tech company busy suing, being sued or counter suing,the folks at informationisbeautiful.net have put together a nifty graphic showing off the current big battles.
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The seeds of a real David –v- Goliath battle of the boards have been sown as a big American corporate giant decides to sue a small British start-up – and the Internet appears to be very angry.
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When gun-lovin’ Roger Witter saw two men nick a load of iPhones from an AT&T store Gresham, Oregon, he decided to take action.
Instead of sensibly waiting for the feds to arrive, he decided to go all Harry Callaghan on the perp’s asses, and blasted away at their departing car in an attempt to blow out its tyres.
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The fall out continues after Google’s Street View cars were discovered to have been scooping up samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) Wi-Fi networks.
Despite posting a comprehensively grovelling apology, a class action lawsuit has just been filed in Oregon district court claiming privacy violation.
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