Counterfeiting & Piracy

May 16, 2013
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Australian Internet Censorship Brought Up Again After Agencies Block ‘Questionable’ Websites.

Communist Conroyism strikes back after it’s alleged that Stephen Conroy (pictured), the communications minister of Australia, passed on information dealing with blocking Australian internet users from visiting various websites. Australian Greens senator Scott Ludlam claims that the federal government has now revived internet censorship concerns with evidence that its agencies are using powers to block [...]

May 11, 2013
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US Government Orders 3D Gun Templates to Be Removed From the Net…so Download Here.

The US government has demanded designs for a 3D-printed gun be taken offline. Impossible. The order to remove the template files for the plastic gun comes after they were downloaded more than 100,000 times. They were being hosted on MEGA. The US State Department wrote to the gun’s designer, Defense Distributed, suggesting publishing them online [...]

April 14, 2013
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BT, Sky, Virgin, O2 Amongst ISP’s Blocking Torrent Sites

So far a High Court verdict has enforced mandatory censorship for major internet service providers BT, Sky, Virgin Media, O2, EE and TalkTalk. The sites in question that have been blocked are The Pirate Bay, KickAss Torrents (KAT), Fenopy and H33T. Earlier this month, Torrentfreak reported that the fantasy action series “Game of Thrones” [...]

March 9, 2013
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SimCity Game’s Anti-Piracy Measures Cause Upset Forcing Amazon to Take Action.

The highly anticipated release of PC game SimCity has been met with unanimous condemnation over its anti-piracy measures. The game requires players to be connected to the internet to play the game and if that’s not enough of a deterrent, if the servers are full or undergoing maintenance then you’re shit out of luck. SimCity, [...]

December 28, 2012
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The Record Industry Is Losing: Why Some Artists Are FINALLY Escaping the Greedy, Copyright Nazi’s Who Own(ed) Them.

It’s no secret that the relationships between artists and publishers have always been tense – this (mostly) comes down to the fact that many contracts claim absolute ownership of the artist. This can – no joke – include control over opinions, fashion style, concert setlists and views that may conflict with the record industries business [...]

December 14, 2012
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The ITU UN Treaty for Internet Regulation Has Been Blocked.

The UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has failed in its attempt to revise – and practically encourage censorship – state regulations on the internet. Major western UN Countries – including The US, Canada and The UK – have objected to calls for to have equal rights to the governance of the internet and the treaty’s [...]

November 5, 2012
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[SPECIAL SERIES] [The Deep Web] Human Experiments and Groups Dedicated to Subject Research.

As I covered in my previous story; the ‘deep web’ is a place filled with interesting (or disturbing) content that has to be accessed explicitly by means other than your everyday “type URL – hit enter – view website” routine. I received notification (from who I recently confirmed was the WordMean editor-in-chief) that a few [...]

October 26, 2012
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[IN-DEPTH] the Ultimate Guide to Torrents.

At the beginning of the year we claimed that the best way for corporations to battle piracy would be to stop going over-the-top and claiming pirates were all thieving bastards who never purchased the stuff they like. For that, we were supposedly “conspiring to promote copyright infringement” – an allegation that the US Department of [...]

October 3, 2012
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New Zealand PM Apologises to Kim Dotcom and NZ for Illegally Spying on the Megaupload Founder.

New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key has apologised to Kim Dotcom after an official report exposed details of an agency illegally carrying out surveillance on the Megaupload founder. The report released found that the Government Communications and Security Bureau (GCSB) had spied on Dotcom, notwithstanding the fact that there are strict laws against it. “It [...]

September 3, 2012
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Pirate Bay Co-Founder Arrested in Cambodia

Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been arrested in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. Svartholm, known online by his nickname Anakata, was condemned to one year in jail for his involvement in The Pirate Bay but has been missing for some time. The 27 year old called Phnom Penh home a few years ago [...]

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Counterfeiting & Piracy

Australian Internet Censorship Brought Up Again After Agencies Block ‘Questionable’ Websites.

US Government Orders 3D Gun Templates to Be Removed From the Net…so Download Here.

BT, Sky, Virgin, O2 Amongst ISP’s Blocking Torrent Sites

SimCity Game’s Anti-Piracy Measures Cause Upset Forcing Amazon to Take Action.

The Record Industry Is Losing: Why Some Artists Are FINALLY Escaping the Greedy, Copyright Nazi’s Who Own(ed) Them.

The ITU UN Treaty for Internet Regulation Has Been Blocked.

[SPECIAL SERIES] [The Deep Web] Human Experiments and Groups Dedicated to Subject Research.

[IN-DEPTH] the Ultimate Guide to Torrents.

New Zealand PM Apologises to Kim Dotcom and NZ for Illegally Spying on the Megaupload Founder.

Pirate Bay Co-Founder Arrested in Cambodia

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