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Complaint To Brussels Prosecutor Put BitTorrent Domains In Peril

The website domain seizure phenomenon has become fashionable in the past two years and worryingly all that’s required to begin taking control of a domain in the United States is an uncontested ex parte...

Tags: brussels, documentation, fenopy, government, homeland, proceedings, result, security, seizure, stories, wrongdoing

Wednesday, December 5th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Brazilian press to Google News: pay up or leave our content alone

Brazil's National Association of Newspapers decided to deny Google News the ability to re-post headlines and the first few sentences of articles from newspapers around the country. The 154 member newspapers make up 90 percent of...

Tags: circulation, contrary, headlines, internet, journalism, newspaper, newspapers, president, result, stories

Sunday, October 21st, 2012 Net News No Comments

US 6 Strike Rule Delayed

The US 6 strike rule has been one of the numerous topics we've been following. With it scheduled to start as early as the beginning of this month to a few days later,...

Tags: implementation, isps, letter, letters, readership, result, stories, strikes, tidbit, times, warning, whisper

Saturday, July 14th, 2012 Net News 1 Comment

Week in tech: cheap, tiny Linux computers and another Bitcoin heist

This week in tech offers the best in unlikely success stories: Sonic.net survived as a rare customer-service oriented ISP, Red Hat succeeds where many thought an open source vendor couldn't, and Nokia's 41...

Tags: 1990s, california, internet, nokia, prizes, stories, success, vendor

Saturday, March 3rd, 2012 Net News No Comments

Creative Commons images and you: a quick guide for image users

Here at Ars we're big fans of Creative Commons, both the idea behind it and the work that gets produced. As publishers, we benefit from Creative Commons in a number of ways—we look...

Tags: ars, clauses, commons, content, images, publishers, steady, stories, stream, users, wikipedia