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Cookie law: Websites Must Seek Consent from this Weekend By Dave Lee, Technology reporter, BBC News 25 May 2012 The EU wants to put a stop to tracking cookies logging a user's activity without their knowledge Friday marks the...

Look! We got a Medal for Defending the Internet May 25, 2012, Torrentfreak Yeah I have to admit, we are awesome… In fact, TorrentFreak is so great that we now joined the “Order Of Defenders Of The Internet." Why? Because we censored our website during the (SOPA/PIPA)Internet blackout...

May 25, 2012, Torrentfreak The popular cyberlocker Filecrop decided to disable access to all porn on its site. An interesting move, especially when we read the Filecrop’s motivation. Quote: We are pleased to announce that we decided to remove pornography...

May 25, 2012 ,Torrentfreak Two weeks ago the Court of The Hague ordered several ISPs to prevent subscribers from accessing The Pirate Bay. The ruling is a win for the local anti-piracy outfit BREIN, but it’s not the end of the legal dispute. Two Dutch Internet providers said...

Create GIFs with Android Those of us who are lazy or can’t afford Photoshop (or both!) there’s a cool Android app called GifStich. It’s got a ton of useful features for a free app, if I do say so. It is used for some goofy DIY type animations More info here & Hope this is helpful...

Google has published detailed information on the wide variety of DMCA takedown requests the company receives for its search engine. Ernesto TorrentFreak, 25 May 2012 During the last month alone Google was asked to remove 1,246,713 links across 24,129 domains, including many torrent sites...

Cynicism Redefined: Why The Copyright Lobby Loves Child Porn Posted: 23 May 2012, Rick Falkvinge Copyright Monopoly:  “Child pornography is great,†the man said enthusiastically. “Politicians do not understand file sharing, but they understand child pornography, and they want to...

ISPs Refuse to Block New Pirate Bay IP-Address Posted: 24 May 2012 Torrentfreak Following an earlier court ruling that ordered Ziggo and XS4ALL, two of the Netherlands largest ISPs, to start blocking access to the The Pirate Bay, two weeks ago Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN chalked up another...

Class action lawsuit, launched Wednesday, alleges info was hidden by Facebook & Morgan Stanley prior to IPO By Sharon Gaudin May 23, 2012 02:08 PM ET Computerworld Computerworld - Less than a week after Facebook's initial public offering, the social networking firm's new shareholders...

TorrentFreak Censored by Orange’s Child Protection Filter Ernesto, 23 May 2012 The Internet is a scary place for kids, but luckily there’s censorship. In the UK mobile networks have so-called “child...

Pirate Bay Simplifies Circumvention of ISP Blockades Posted: 23 May 2012 Torrentfreak Within a few days, five of the largest UK Internet providers will all have to censor The Pirate Bay. Virgin and Orange have already implemented the block and the rest must follow before the end of May...

Ernesto, Torrentfreak 23 May 2012 Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is demanding access to 135 computers and hard drives that were seized from his home in January, so the data can be used for his defense. Until then, he refuses to give up passwords to encrypted data stored on the...

U.S. Supreme Court Refuses $675,000 File-Sharing Case Posted: 21 May 2012 Torrentfreak The case of the RIAA vs. Joel Tenenbaum – aka the case that will not die – took another turn today. Although not an entirely unexpected one. The Supreme Court has refused to hear his case. While this is...

How We Stopped SOPA Posted: 22 May 2012 Torrentfreak After the historic protests in January SOPA and PIPA were shelved. In a keynote speech at Freedom 2 Connect, Demand Progress founder Aaron Swartz looks back at what happened. Swartz explains how SOPA was effectively stopped, and why this...

DODD Changes His "Tune" May 20, 2012, Torrent Freak For decades the entertainment industry used the word “theft†to refer to piracy. Most famous is probably the “You Wouldn’t Steal a Car†ad. But virtually all press releases of outfits such as the MPAA refer to stealing or...

Smile, you've just become Facebook Millionaires! Grim-faced geeks' $104Billion party... with laptops, Red Bull and a takeaway 82million shares traded in first 30 seconds on market Mark Zuckerberg's stake is valued at $19.1billion Critics have said $38 share price is too high - and it is...

Facebook founder Eduardo Saverin could be BANNED from the U.S. after renouncing citizenship to save millions in tax Saverin, 30, migrated to Singapore ahead of site's stock market floatation Could save on payout as south-east Asian country has no capital gains tax Law states he can be...

Mother's fury after Facebook BANS her for posting pictures of her baby son who lived for just eight hours after being born with rare birth defect By Daily Mail UK, 19 May 2012 A furious mother is demanding answers from Facebook as to why they took down photographs she posted on the...

18 May 2012, 10:11 AM Authorities Foil Mass Jailbreak at Biggest Prison Najayo. Santo Domingo. - Dominican Republic The Prisons department today...

15 May 2012. BBC World News Phone-Hacking Police Charge Rebekah Brooks Charlie Brooks said his wife, Rebekah, was the victim of a...