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Record Labels go to High Court to Force More ISPs to Block Pirate Bay

While almost all ISPs are happy to comply with requests from child protection organizations and the police to block websites that promote abuse, the issue of blocking on copyright grounds is more controversial, not...

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Saturday, December 8th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Kill the bots: FTC puts a bounty on the heads of robo-telemarketers

Time to hang up the phone, evil androids. The race against robots is on: the Federal Trade Commission is offering $50,000 cash to anyone that can come up with a way to eliminate...

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Thursday, October 18th, 2012 Net News No Comments

US, EU regulators approve Universal-EMI music deal

Universal Music will now control nearly half of the recorded music industry. joykennelly On Friday, regulators on both sides of the Atlantic approved the mergers of the Universal Music Group and EMI Recorded...

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Friday, September 21st, 2012 Net News No Comments

Google Says It Removes 1 Million Infringing Links Monthly

Each month, Google removes more than 1 million links to infringing content such as movies, video games, music and software from its search results — with about half of those requests for removal...

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Thursday, May 24th, 2012 Net News No Comments

What Filesharing Studies Really Say – Part 2 – P2P Has No Effect on Music Sales

Yesterday, we began an investigative news series on what various studies really say in response to a poorly written study that attempted to argue that the US should start censoring the internet. We...

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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 Net News No Comments