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Washington state admits “sex trafficking” law is unconstitutional

The state of Washington has abandoned its defense of legislation passed earlier this year that could have exposed website operators to legal liability if they inadvertently hosted advertisements for child prostitution. The Internet Archive,...

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Friday, December 7th, 2012 Net News No Comments

MegaUpload To Resurrect as Mega

One year after the raid that took down Megaupload and put its founder Kim Dotcom on trial, the filesharing service gets the Phoenix syndrome and resurrects under a new name. On January 19, 2012,...

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Sunday, October 28th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Megaupload Is Dead. Long Live Mega!

Photo: Wilk They’ve been indicted by the U.S. government for conspiracy and briefly thrown in jail, but Kim Dotcom and his partners in the digital storage locker Megaupload have no intention of quitting the...

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Thursday, October 18th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Australian Goverment Mulls Allowing Authorities to Hack Your Computer

There's some rather scary news coming from Australia right now. The Australian government is considering sweeping new surveillance powers which includes the surveillance of social networking sites and data retention. While that isn't...

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Monday, July 16th, 2012 Net News 1 Comment

CETA’s Intellectual Property Exposed to The Public

Some time ago we’ve informed our readers about a new dangerous treaty called CETA or the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. As it seems, a text of the Intellectual Property Chapter has leaked....

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Thursday, July 12th, 2012 Net News No Comments