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[Link] UK Revives Dangerous Attempt to Verify Age of People Who Watch Porn
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
The bill would require social networks, and any websites that allow users to upload content, to enact a “duty of care” that would require sites to proactively remove harmful or illegal content.
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[Link] Record Labels Face Sanctions Over ‘Destroyed’ Piracy Evidence
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
Internet provider Bright House has asked a Florida federal court to sanction several record labels for 'destroying' evidence that it says is crucial to the ongoing piracy liability lawsuit.
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[Link] Record Labels Still Want to Know if Piracy Trial Jurors Read TorrentFreak
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
The piracy liability trial between several major record labels and Internet provider Grande is about to begin. To rule out conflicts, both sides submitted an updated series of questions for the jury selection.
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[Link] Nintendo Wins High Court Injunction to Block Access to Pirated Switch ROMs
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
In an effort to restrict access to pirated ROMs illegally made available for its Switch console, Nintendo has obtained a UK High Court injunction against six internet service providers.
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[Link] Sci-Hub: Researchers File Intervention Application To Fight ISP Blocking
Read: 22/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
Last December, academic publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society filed a lawsuit demanding that Indian ISPs block access to Sci-Hub and Libgen for copyright infringement.
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[Link] ISP Verizon Fails to Lift MangaDex Blockade, Manga Site Codes Own Solution
Read: 21/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
In the summer subscribers to ISP Verizon found they were being prevented from accessing giant manga scanlation site MangaDex. The US ISP hasn't provided any reason for taking this action so in response, MangaDex has been working on a solution.
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[Link] The startup that wants to disrupt big internet providers
Read: 9/11/2021 www.axios.com
Why it matters: Internet access has been crucial during the pandemic, but it's not ubiquitous, and it can be both slow and unaffordable in swaths of the country.
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[Link] ‘Asian Achievers,’ ‘Gay’: How ISPs Label Customers for Advertisers
Read: 22/10/2021 www.vice.com
A new FTC report has revealed that ISPs collect and sell a horrifying amount of sensitive data about their customers.
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[Link] Google Opposes ‘Sweeping’ Popcorn Time Piracy Blocking Request
Read: 14/10/2021 torrentfreak.com
Google has asked a Virginia federal court for permission to formally oppose the request for a far-reaching anti-piracy injunction. The contested anti-piracy measures, aimed at shutting down a popular Popcorn Time app, are proposed by a group of filmmakers.
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[Link] High Traffic Pirate Sites Worldwide Under Investigation, DMCA Subpoenas Reveal
Read: 11/10/2021 torrentfreak.com
The operators of around two dozen torrent sites and pirate streaming services are at risk of having their identities obtained by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment.
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[Link] Wayback Machine’s 485 billion web pages blocked by Russian government order
Read: 5/10/2021 arstechnica.com
The Internet Archive—including its Wayback Machine, which currently stores 485 billion snapshots of the world's web pages at different dates—is inaccessible for some users in Russia, as a post on the Global Voices site explains.
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[Link] Sky Subscribers’ Piracy Habits Directly Help Premier League Block Illegal Streams
Read: 29/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
UK ISP Sky Broadband is monitoring the IP addresses of servers suspected of streaming pirated content to subscribers and supplying that data to an anti-piracy company working with the Premier League.
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[Link] TekSavvy Takes Pirate Site Blocking Battle to Canada’s Supreme Court
Read: 26/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Internet provider TekSavvy is taking the legal battle over Canada's first pirate site blocking order to the Supreme Court. The company has no sympathy for pirate sites but feels that it's obligated to defend the neutral role of ISPs and prevent freedom of speech from being violated.
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[Link] Is Your Crummy Router Giving Away Your Location?
Read: 8/8/2021 au.pcmag.com
Security researchers at Black Hat showed a new way to discern street-level location data. The key? Crummy routers often provided by internet service providers.
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[Link] Biden Broadband Plan Weakened by Lobbying and ‘Bipartisan Compromise’
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
The Biden administration’s original $100 billion broadband plan has been steadily scaled back by “bipartisan compromise” and telecom lobbying.
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[Link] Cable ISP warns “excessive” uploaders, says network can’t handle heavy usage
Read: 2/2/2021 arstechnica.com
Mediacom, a cable company with about 1.4 million Internet customers across 22 states, is telling heavy uploaders to reduce their data usage—even when those users are well below their monthly data caps.