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EU Parliament rejects amendments protecting net neutrality
European Parliament has voted for a package of EU internet traffic regulations, rejecting all amendments on net neutrality. The move was slammed by activists …
Piracy Notices Boost Demand For Anonymous VPNs in Canada
The mandatory piracy notifications that were implemented to deter copyright infringement in Canada have boosted the interest in anonymous file-sharing tools. Data from Google …
France bans file-sharing site The Pirate Bay
France has become the latest country to block world’s number one file-sharing site, The Pirate Bay, in an effort to defend copyright-protected content. The …
ISPs Removing Their Customers’ Email Encryption
Recently, Verizon was caught tampering with its customer’s web requests to inject a tracking super-cookie. Another network-tampering threat to user safety has come to …
Hungary suspends Internet tax after huge protests
Following large-scale protests, Hungary’s prime minister said Friday that the government would suspend a planned tax on Internet use and reconsider the matter next …
FCC Tests The Waters On A ‘Hybrid’ Net Neutrality Solution That Almost Everyone Hates
Gautham Nagesh at the Wall Street Journal (who was also the first to reveal many of the details of Tom Wheeler’s original net neutrality …
Court Orders Immediate Pirate Site Blockade
After a legal battle that went all the way to the European Court, Austrian ISPs have been defeated in their battle against pirate site …
IBM Brings Bare Metal Intel TXT Security to Cloud
IBM today announced that it is bringing Intel’s Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) to its Softlayer cloud service. Intel’s TXT is a trust mechanism that …
BBC: ISPs Should Assume Heavy VPN Users are Pirates
In a submission to the Australian Government on the issue of online piracy, the BBC Worldwide indicates that ISPs should be obliged to monitor …
Net Neutrality
On Jan. 14, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet Order. And on May …
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