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Ohio attorney creates fake child porn for case, now must pay $300,000

In case it wasn’t clear, you can definitely be busted for digitally manipulating photographs to make them look like child pornography—or as it’s sometimes called, child abuse imagery. And even if it wasn’t against...

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Saturday, November 10th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Expert Witness Dinged $300,000 for Making Fake Child Porn

Dean Boland. Photo: Courtesy of Dean Boland An Ohio lawyer who serves as an expert witness in child pornography cases is on the hook for $300,000 in civil damages for Photoshopping courtroom exhibits of...

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Friday, November 9th, 2012 Net News No Comments

SOPA Is Back! … As a Ransomware Virus

The Stop Online Piracy ACT (SOPA) was a major threat to the Internet. The bill introduced draconian censorship tools for the Government and copyright holders, that worried the public and many key Internet companies...

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Thursday, October 11th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Child Porn in P2P Share Folder Is Smut Distribution, Appeals Court Says

Photo: bloomsberries/Flickr A federal appeals court ruled that peer-to-peer file sharers can be prosecuted for distributing child pornography by having the illicit files in their open share folders. That was the ruling by the...

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Monday, October 8th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Pirate Bay co-founder has his Swedish passport restored

Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik "tiamo" Neij has just won a court case this week in Göteborg, Sweden, restoring his passport. The controversial Swedish developer previously had his passport revoked by the Swedish Embassy in...

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Saturday, October 6th, 2012 Net News No Comments