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“Strike six – yer out!” says American ISPs. Well sort of.

There has been a lot of talk courtesy of the entertainment industry lobbying groups about a three strikes type act for copyright infringers who will be kicked off the Web is they get three warnings for downloading or sharing ... continue

No Sleep. Internet. Forever.

Every night. Every single internetting night. Tumblr, why you so funny? [via] continue

HAPPY CAPS LOCK DAY, INTERNET

Actually, there are two. One is in October, but today is often dubbed International Caps Lock Day- sorry, INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY- because it also marks the anniversary of the unexpected death of popular TV pitchman Billy Mays. ... continue

Chrome’s Incognito Mode – not so much incognito it seems for Facebook

All the major browsers have some sort of "privacy" mode that is suppose to let you browse the web without leaving, or collecting, personally identifying information. With Google Chrome its called Incognito Mode but it it seems that it ... continue

al Qaeda get cupcake recipes instead of bombs thanks to MI6

Aw man you gotta love this one. It seems that England's secret service, MI6, managed to hack an online al Qaeda magazine and replace the bomb recipes within the magazine with cake recipes. Dubbed "Operation Cupcake" by the British ... continue

Tennessee Gov wins moron prize – makes it illegal to share your Netflix account

Every day it seems that governments, state or federal, seek out to prove over and over again just how much they do not understand how technology and the Internet work. To show just how brain dead these officials ... continue

Silk Road: The Amazon for people looking to by pot and other drugs

It was inevitable, and anyone who didn't think this would happen is living in a dream world but for those of you looking to buy some illegal drugs without having to travel into some hellhole or another ... continue

Is your Senator in Hollywood’s back pocket when it comes to Protect IP?

First there was the COICA bill that failed to pass but it has been replaced by the new and *cough* improved Protect IP Act that admittedly fixed some of the problems with COICA but in return brought ... continue

Every. Single. Night

The panel depicting the morning was just to depressing. continue

[Hee] How to leave internet comments, explained

Start with "First!!11!!!" inexplicably absent. [Source] continue

Homeland Security wants Add-on pulled, Mozilla says not so fast.

Starting late last year the ICE department within Homeland Security started seizing domains whether they were legal or not. This prompted a couple of developers came up with a clever add-on for Firefox, called MAFIAA Fire, that ... continue

Old Lady Turns Off Armenia’s Internet For Hours

A 75-year-old lady in Georgia was recently scavenging for copper in the village of Ksani when she managed to accidentally shut off internet access to the country of Armenia. Digging with a shovel the lady unearthed two cable ... continue

Hey Canada, don’t blame Pandora says company CEO

I remember being a Pandora fan in its early days. You know, the days when Canadians could get the service without any problems. Then came the day when they had to shut down access by anyone outside of ... continue

Fake girlfriend takes man for $200K online

I was tempted to file this one in the [Moron Dept.] but as obviously ridiculous as it might be that a man wouldn't have figured out within two years that his on-line girlfriend didn't even exist, one ... continue

Canada and its data caps flipflop – don’t pop the champagne yet

You could almost hear the back-slapping and popping of champaign corks at the news that the government in Canada issued a statement that the country's CRTC could rescind the whole data cap thing or the government would do it ... continue

[VIDEO] “What IS the Internet, anyway?”

This is too cute: Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel on the set of NBC's "Today" show in 1994, utterly baffled by this new 'Internet' thing and the '@' sign. [Via YouTube] continue

Canadians are an apathetic bunch and deserve the lousy Internet headed their way

If Americans want to see what their Internet future could look like you don't need to look any further than to their neighbors in the north; and as a Canadian it is nothing short of depressing. What is ... continue

2011, Net Neutrality, A Couple of Misconceptions and Realities

If you want to start a passionate discussion in tech circles just mention Net Neutrality and FCC in the same sentence. If you want to get a lot of blank stares and shuffling of feet just mention ... continue

2011: The Year the Web We Know, and Dream Of, Dies

As we head into the end of 2010 and the birth of a new year I have been pre-occupied with what is happening to The Web. It is a web that I have been lucky to have ... continue

Canada’s version of a police state Internet

While much of attention of security minded tech bloggers has been focused around ACTA which is basically the entertainment business' latest attempt to control the Web it seems that three has been a move by the Canadian ... continue

Canada’s CRTC gives Bell permission to screw its DSL customers – all of them

One of the interesting things about the DSL business in Canada is that regardless of the number of companies offering DSL Internet access there is only really one provider - Bell Canada. Anyone else offering DSL services ... continue

Internet holidays: International Caps Lock Day

It happens twice a year, and today is one of those two glorious celebratory days: INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY! The first instance of International Caps Lock Day, the less established one, was added in honor of the much ... continue