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18Apr

CISPA Cypersecurity Act Passes The US House Of Representatives

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, otherwise known as CISPA, ...

04Oct

SOPA And PIPA Are Dead, Says MPAA Chairman Chris Dodd

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) are dead, and they are never ever ever getting back together. That was the message delivered by MPAA chairman and former Senator Chris Dodd on Wednesday. Speaking to Wired, the former Senator said those particular bills will never again appear on the congressional floor…. Read more »

15Jul

Internet Defense League Picks Its Bat Symbol… and Unsurprisingly, It’s a Cat

The Internet Defense League, a shadowy collective of privacy-protecting web ...

26May

Reddit Founder Plans ‘Internet Bat Signal’ to Defend the Tubes

Team internet assemble! Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian is partnering with an internet rights advocacy group to create an ongoing strategy to harness web outrage. Remember when, for a few says this winter, large swaths of the web talked frequently or solely about pending SOPA and PIPA legislation, laws that threatened internet freedoms we’ve taken for… Read more »

01May

UK Orders ISPs To Block Pirate Bay

The UK High Court has just ruled that local ISPs must block their ...

29Feb

US wants to use secret TPP agreement to wipe out First Sale Doctrine

And here you thought it couldn’t get any worse than SOPA, PIPA and ...

14Feb

SOPA and PIPA Explained

Although they’re distant memories now, why did anyone think SOPA and ...

12Feb

The European ACTA revolt draws large number of protesters

While here in North America everyone is still slapping each other on the ...

25Jan

Did Obama break constitutional law by signing the ACTA treaty?

Here at The Inquisitr we have been covering the whole SOPA, PIPA, and the ...

22Jan

Uploaded.to is now blocking US users in response to the MegaUpload takedown

Backlash to the Department of Justice’s takedown of MegaUpload and the ...

Never mind worrying about the Ides of March because Black March is coming

Now that all the back slapping and virtual high-five’ing over making ...

ACTA Worse than SOPA and Classified as National Security by Obama and Bush

The demise of SOPA and PIPA, as temporary as it may be, means attention is ...

20Jan

ESA drops support for SOPA, PIPA

The Entertainment Software Association, the trade group behind the annual E3 ...

SOPA Being Pulled From Congress, Victory For Now

SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act and what Millions have been protesting the ...

MPAA’s Chris Dodd Threatens to Cut Cash to Politicians Over SOPA/PIPA Drawdown

The internet hates Chris Dodd right now. The former Democratic Senator is a ...

19Jan

Feds shuts down Megaupload claiming more that $500 million in lost revenue

Well the other shoe has fallen folks. For those of you who may have ...

SOPA Blackout Gets People Involved Shows World’s Top Websites

Yesterday, January 18th, was the day that many websites around the World, ...

18Jan

PIPA Loses Four More Supporters in the Senate

The PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) is falling fast in the wake of a popular uprising ...

Trent Reznor And Neil Gaiman Pen Open Letter Regarding SOPA

A number of famous creatives, including Trent Reznor and Neil Gaiman, have ...

Facebook Comes Out Strongly Against SOPA And PIPA

Today is the day that many sites across the globe are protesting SOPA and ...

7 Screenshots of Sites Protesting SOPA And PIPA

The internet is on strike! Today, more than 7000 sites are going dark in ...

What SOPA and PIPA Would Do to The Inquisitr

Chances are as you do your internet rounds this morning, you’ve run up ...

SOPA & PIPA Break the Internet, Here’s How [Video]

This morning (January 18th), the world woke up to a partially blacked-out ...

Wikipedia Editors Voice Concern Over SOPA Blackout

A whole host of Wikipedia’s volunteer editors are lashing out at the ...

SOPA Protests: Google Hits Back at Rupert Murdoch

The SOPA wars continue. Google has hit back at Rupert Murdoch, after the ...

Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Talks To CNN About SOPA and PIPA Faults [Video]

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales took some time out of his busy schedule on ...

Google Protests SOPA And PIPA By Censoring Logo, Offering Information And A Petition

Google Search Homepage - SOPA PIPA Censorship

Google has went dark in protest of SOPA and PIPA, two internet bills that ...

Wikipedia Has Gone Dark In Protest Of SOPA/PIPA Acts

As promised Wikipedia has gone dark. The world’s largest repository of ...

17Jan

Google To Join SOPA Protests

Google will be joining thousands of companies tomorrow in protest over the ...

16Jan

Wikipedia Going Dark Wednesday in Solidarity With Reddit to Protest SOPA

Well, this is a big effing deal. Expect snide rebuttals to grind to a ...

14Jan

White House Releases Statement on SOPA, Promises to Protect ‘Dynamic Web’

The White House responded to online petitions today about the controversial ...

13Jan

Firefall, Minecraft developers to join SOPA blackout protest

While the ESA may still be stubbornly refusing to back down on their support ...

SOPA Authoring Congressman Lamar Smith Blocks DNS Blocking Language From Bill, Accused of Copyright Infringement

In a statement today, Sen. Lamar Smith (R-TX) said that language in the ...

11Jan

Reddit to Protest SOPA, Site Will Go Dark on January 18th

Reddit announced today that it plans to blackout the site on January 18th in order to protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). Next Wednesday, Reddit.com will go dark from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Reddit also announced that co-founder, Alexis “kn0thing” Ohanian, will be testifying in front… Read more »

21Dec