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Influential GOP group releases, pulls shockingly sensible copyright memo

Republican Study Committee staffer Derek Khanna. On Friday afternoon, an influential group representing conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives released a shockingly sensible memo calling for sweeping reforms of the nation's copyright laws....

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Sunday, November 18th, 2012 Net News No Comments

ZeroPaid Interviews Michael Geist

One of the many things we are tracking here at ZeroPaid is the developments of the Canadian copyright reform legislation . So, we decided to talk to Michael Geist, one of the leading...

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Monday, May 21st, 2012 Net News No Comments

Immoral tech? IT vendors refuse to bid on Pakistan censorship scheme

On Monday evening, McAfee became the fifth major IT vendor to pledge it won't bid on a Request for Proposals from the Pakistani government for adding enhanced censorship capabilities to Pakistan's Internet backbone....

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Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Pakistan’s plan for the "coldblooded murder of the Internet"

You know that "overwhelmed" feeling you get when trying to censor the entire Internet manually? Pakistan does. Its current Internet censorship regime is run by hand at its two major Internet backbone companies,...

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Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Even without DNS provisions, SOPA and PIPA remain fatally flawed

The special interests behind the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act are in full retreat, throwing the bills' most controversial provisions overboard in a desperate attempt to stop the entire...

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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 Net News No Comments