Over 200 sites are participating in today's Internet shutdown to protest the cyber-security bill Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which the House of Representatives passed last week. But, the big names that showed up to last year's nearly Internet-wide protest of SOPA—like Wikipedia and Wired—haven't shut down their sites this time.
Google is adding a new feature to its search algorithm that will make it harder to find pirated material, effectively making it extremely hard for you to keep up with Game of Thrones next season.
The death of the Senate's cyber security bill, one of President Obama's top national security priorities, saw a combined push by two unlikely allies: Privacy advocates and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Wikipedia found success with its 24-hour blackout in January to protest U.S. anti-piracy legislation, so it's trying the same technique in Russia where a bill promoted as a curb on child pornography threatens to create an Internet blacklist.
As a reaction to SOPA and other complex legislative efforts to regulate the Internet, online activists have created a Declaration of Internet Freedom, which consists of five very broad principles to keep the Internet free and open. And yet, at fewer than 100 words, the declaration remains frustratingly unclear.
Things got heated at last night's AllThingsD conference session with Hollywood super agent Ari Emanuel, who in less than one hour embodied the entire beef between Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
Following the SOPA/PIPA uproar that splashed across the Internet earlier this year, we now have another cyber-security bill that threatens American Web browsing privacy, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, otherwise known as CISPA.
President Obama threatened to veto a House bill on cybersecurity Wednesday, a dramatic-sounding move that's probably just part of a subtle push-and-pull over how to address the national security threat.
The Sunlight Foundation's Lindsay Young has a timely report investigating the political donations of those lucky few whose names appear on the list of nominees for this weekend's Academy Awards, and -- wonder of wonders -- these Hollywood types tend to give a lot of money to Democrats, reaffirming that not much can shake the film industry's faith in their favorite party.
A few days after we highlighted a spat between a Boston Phoenix writer and The New York Times columnist Bill Keller, Keller is fighting back with a new blog post.
Germany reportedly will not sign the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), according to various sources.
With the Susan G. Komen foundation backing off of its decision to rescind funding from Planned Parenthood and the halting of SOPA last month, 2012 is turning out to be the year of the virtual protester.
Now that the armchair activists are doing victory laps, celebrating the (temporary) death of anti-piracy laws SOPA and PIPA in Congress, the years-long protest against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is getting nasty.
Whoops. It looks like Sen. Chuck Grassley's account was hacked by an opponent of the anti-piracy laws SOPA and PIPA Monday afternoon.
Furious over Congress' withdrawal of SOPA and PIPA, the MPAA head takes a swipe at lawmakers who take cash from his clients in Hollywood. So they really do want something in exchange for that money after all.
With the help of Facebook and Twitter, word is getting around quickly that MegaUpload is not totally inaccessible; what appears to be a (very) limited version of the site can still be accessed using an IP address.
As the House and Senate's anti-piracy bills increasingly look like they're on their way to the trashcan, Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Ron Wyden must be taking tap dance breaks, as they push forward their alternative piece of legislation: OPEN.
Votes and further consideration of two proposed anti-piracy bills that led websites such as Wikipedia to go dark in protest this week have been stopped in both chambers of Congress.
If Twitter had shut down yesterday too, it'd be impossible to tell what kind of impact Wikipedia's anti-SOPA protest would have had on the tweeting masses.
Anonymous brought down the the Department of Justice's website on Thursday afternoon after it admitted to arresting several Megaupload affiliates in a Thursday afternoon press release, calling the site a "international organized criminal enterprise."
Yesterday's internet-wide protest may not have killed Congress's anti-piracy efforts completely, but a lot of legislators (including some co-sponsors) suddenly can't run away from the bills fast enough.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and one of the world's youngest billionaires, has finally posted his personal thoughts on the anti-piracy bills currently being considered in the House and Senate -- on Facebook, of course.
In the hours before the blackout hit, coders and bloggers alike scrambled and many succeeded in finding ways around the anti-censorship protests on sites like Wikipedia, Reddit and Wired.
In a Facebook posting today, Florida Senator Marco Rubio withdrew support of the Protect IP Act (PIPA) the Senate's anti-piracy legislation--a bill he had originally co-sponsored.
Not so long ago, we pointed out how Chris Dodd, the current chief executive of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), sounds like a bit of a despot when talking about Internet censorship, but lately, he just sounds hypocritical.
Wikipedia, Google, and Craigslist are leading today's Internet protest march by changing their home pages in defiance of the SOPA and Protect IP bills.
Sides both for and against SOPA are preparing for Wednesday's day of action, as other big Internet sites, like Wikipedia and Google, have joined Reddit in its protest.
Other big Internet players haven't rallied behind Jimmy Wales, after the Wikipedia founder confirmed that the site would go dark this Wednesday to protest SOPA.
Latching on to the headline-making political controversy surrounding the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) the Pirate Bay is starting a new initiative -- get this -- to help the people the bill is supposedly trying to protect.
It's been speculated, and now it's confirmed: Wikipedia plans to give its users a (severe) taste of the Internet under SOPA by going offline in protest of the bill on Wednesday.
The newly minted Twitter sensation Rupert Murdoch has started weighing in on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in a frankly entertaining -- however poorly thought-out -- way.
An interesting debate took place on MSNBC yesterday, when the the chief counsel for NBC Universal went on the air to vigorously defend the Stop Online Piracy Act.
In a White House blog post, the administration comes out hard against measures that would lead to "censorship," signaling Obama's opposition to the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act.
Less than 24-hours after promising not to yield, the Texas congressman and author of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Lamar Smith is yielding on the bill's controversial language that would allow the government to censor the Internet -- for now.
The latest grumblings (or lack thereof) from the lawmakers on Capitol Hill suggest that they're coming around to the idea that the latest anti-piracy efforts in the House and the Senate might've been a little hasty.
Uh oh. Maybe the U.S. representative who authored the Stop Online Piracy Act should know better than to break the rules his law (if passed) would penalize him for.
With the announcement that Reddit will go dark next Wednesday the protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is getting real.
After a Hollywood-heavy panel of witnesses at the first hearing for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) last month thoroughly outraged everyone, the House of Representatives is bringing in the nerds.
The former Vice President comes out against the Stop Online Piracy Act.
Congress is really scaring the Internet lately, and California Republican Darrell Issa, one of the tech community's biggest proponents on the issue, is starting to catch flak for taking seemingly opportunistic approach to protecting the open web.
The latest plan concocted by hactivist types to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is pretty weird.
Reddit users forced Paul Ryan to defend his stance on SOPA on Thursday after their users started a website campaigning against him, but once it was revealed he's never supported the bill an internal debate among the up-voting chorus has emerged over whether they chose the right target or not.
Go Daddy's CEO has confirmed that the internet did in fact follow through on its promise to stop using the popular domain hosting site, moving their domains elsewhere after the company's initial support for the Stop Online Piracy Act
Link-sharing Website Reddit forced Congressman Paul Ryan to defend his position on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act Thursday after the Internet hive-mind pledged its support for his opponent, Democrat Rob Zerban, a harsh critic of the anti-piracy legislation.
Details of Go Daddy's history of supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Thursday's planned boycott against the surface have been all over the news lately, and it only makes all non-SOPA Go Daddy news seem all the more rage-inducing.
Christmas passed without a fallen snowflake at Go Daddy's Arizona headquarters, as the former supporter of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) watched tens of thousands of customers flee its business.
Faced with a Reddit-powered boycott, Go Daddy, the domain registrar and maker of sexy television commercials, will no longer support the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) -- but Wikipedia is going to boycott Go Daddy regardless.
As anybody who's visited the site will admit, the power of the Reddit crowd is impressive if it's on your side, but you don't want to get on Reddit's bad side. Just ask the bean counters at Go Daddy.
After quietly scheduling a last minute markup hearing, the House Judiciary Committee quietly but definitively put the Stop Online Piracy Bill (SOPA) on hold until "early next year."
A developer who calls himself T Rizk doesn't have much faith in Congress making the right decision on anti-piracy legislation, so he's built a work around for the impending censorship measures being considered: DeSOPA.
Rep. Darrell Issa, a Republican from California, is quickly becoming known as the most outspoken proponent of a free and open Internet, and according to a new Fast Company profile, his tech-savvy could reshape how Congress writes laws.
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