Megaupload Shutdown: Negative Effect on Box Office Revenues. We’ve heard this one before, over and over again: pirates are the biggest spenders.
It therefore shouldn’t surprise too many people to learn that shutting down Megaupload earlier this year had a negative effect on box office revenues. MinnesotaOpus : Sign the "Declaration of Internet... Declaration of Internet Freedom. Picture of Tibetan shot dead by Chinese forces. Photos of shooting victim emerge Free Tibet has received pictures of the body of a young Tibetan who was shot dead when Chinese state security forces opened fire in Barma Township, in January.
Urgen (right) was shot dead by state security forces when he tried, alongside many fellow-townspeople, to prevent his friend Tharpa from being arrested. Call for Tibetan freedom Tharpa was being pursued by the authorities because he had posted leaflets in the town claiming that self-immolations would continue until Tibet is free. The fact that there have now been four self-immolations in Barma Township since, the most recent, mother-of-three Rechok, taking place earlier this week, proves Tharpa right. Reality of Tibet The picture we are releasing shows that Urgen sustained a head injury. TheRedInTheSky : The Dutch reject ACTA....t... Anti-Piracy Agreement ACTA Is Falling Apart in Europe. Bulgaria won't be ratifying the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) any time soon.
On Tuesday, Bulgaria followed some of its European neighbors, including Germany and Poland, in halting approval of the controversial intellectual property treaty. Bulgaria will "practically stop its participation" until it sees a clear and unified European stance on the treaty, according to Traicho Traikov, the Bulgarian economy and energy minister. "I'm a pessimist when it comes to regulating an industry, which hasn't adapted to the digital age, through sanctions rather than market means," Traikov told the press, according to Bloomberg. Meanwhile, ACTA also stalled in the Dutch parliament. Lawmakers in Holland want time to examine the treaty's potential effects on Internet privacy before moving forward with ratification, reported Radio Netherlands Worldwide. The decisions by Bulgaria and the Netherlands come after anti-ACTA protests spread across Europe over the weekend. When does an abusive tweet go too far? John Graham Kerlen was prosecuted after insulting a Bexley councillor on Twitter.
Photograph: Iain Masterton/Alamy Twitter is storming, as Twitter is wont to do, with suggestions that freedom of speech, if not dead, is at least in dire need of CPR. The fury comes after John Graham Kerlen, who tweets under the name @Sir_Olly_C, was found guilty on 13 April of an offence contrary to section 127(1) of the Communications Act 2003, which states: Study Finds China Censorsh... Study Finds China Censorship Of Social Media Is Real, Pervasive. Alina Barba: Carnegie Mellon performs f... ACTA Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ISP PolicingMax Farquar. Free mobile Les offres passées au peigne fin. Les détails des offres Des frais annexes Free mobile facture 10 € l’envoi de la carte SIM (sauf en cas de souscription par Internet ou de portabilité) et 10 € l’envoi du mobile (15 € pour les deux).
KennyB: Media censorship of gang-r... Jared Earle: How hashtag censorship wor... Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. CoE Conference: Our Internet - Our Rights, Our Freedoms. Glimpses of a Detained Blogger in Cairo. Melodee Aaron: Orgy of censorship... http... An Orgy of Censorship, Max Mosley Sues Google to Block Search Results. By Ben Popper 11/25/11 3:30pm Share this: Max Mosley The former head of Formula One racing, Max Mosely, lost his post a few years back after British tabloids ran pictures of him involved in am alleged “Nazi themed” orgy.
Google, understandably, has thousands of search results that link to queries involving Mr. Mosley and the term “orgy.” Now Mr. This line of reasoning is terrifying, and very similar to one offered up during the recent SOPA hearings by several members of Congress. Matt Dickson: Rights group slams Faceboo... Ryan Calo: Google releases raw data o... Coding with data from our Transparency Report. By Matt Braithwaite, Transparency Engineering Tech Lead More than a year ago, we launched our Transparency Report, which is a site that shows the availability of Google services around the world and lists the number of requests we’ve received from governments to either hand over data or to remove content.
We wanted to provide a snapshot of government actions on the Web — and in recent cases like Libya and Myanmar, we were glad to see users start to get back on our services. Today, we’re releasing the raw data behind our Government Requests tool in CSV format. Interested developers and researchers can take this data and revisualize it in different ways, or mash it up with information from other organizations to test and draw up new hypotheses about government behaviors online.
We’ll keep these files up-to-date with each biannual data release. The data has grown complex enough that we can no longer build a UI that anticipates every question you might want to ask. Berita Malaysia News: WikiLeaks documents press... Malaysia: WikiLeaks documents press censorship. Joan: In case you missed it, Ire... Duffyking: Real Names, Guilt, Self-Ce... Real Names, Guilt, Self-Censorship, and the Identity War. "Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.
" -- William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, circa 1760s In the mere month since the public launching of Google+, it has become clear that this innovative and highly useful service -- that I've been happily using since its initial availability on June 28th -- has triggered a growing controversy over foundational issues of identity on the Internet. Yet make no mistake about it, Google+ itself is not the real issue here at all. To defuse 'flash' protest, BART cuts riders' cell service. Is that legal? The decision by Bay Area Rapid Transit officials to cut off cellphone service Thursday evening – to forestall a planned protest – raises a fundamental question: Do Americans have a basic right to digital free speech or to digitally organized assembly?
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On saluera donc la célérité des services du ministère de la Justice qui ont pondu en quelques jours le texte, texte qui a été publié au Journal Officiel ce mercredi, indiquent nos confrères de PC Inpact. Rappelons que Free bloque l'envoi des emails de la Hadopi à ses abonnés. L'opérateur a en effet toujours déclaré qu'il ne bougerait pas tant que le financement des procédures d'identification ne seraient pas prises en charge par l'Etat, et que les modalités d'échanges de données personnelles n'étaient pas précisées. La Commission européenne pas informée En refusant, le FAI s'expose à une amende de 1500 euros par email non transmis, amende qui ne sera pas rétroactive.
PC Inpact souligne néanmoins qu'"uune mesure pénale nouvelle qui vise un service de la société de l'information doit préalablement être notifiée à Bruxelles (directive 98/48/CE)".