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The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs, court rules - 1er mai 2012
File-sharing site The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK internet service providers, the High Court has ruled.
The Swedish website hosts links to download mostly pirated free music and video.
Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media must all prevent their users from accessing the site.
"Sites (...)
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Royaume-Uni : la loi contre le téléchargement illégal repoussée - 28 avril 2012
L’entrée en vigueur du "Digital Economy Act", qui introduit un dispositif de réponse graduée contre le téléchargement illégal au Royaume-Uni, a été reportée, rapporte la BBC, jeudi 26 avril."Les lettres d’avertissement aux téléchargeurs et les éventuelles déconnexions d’Internet ne seront pas prononcées avant 2014, au moins", (...)
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La justice britannique autorise l’application d’une loi antitéléchargement - 6 mars 2012
Un recours des deux fournisseurs d’accès Internet British Telecom (BT) et TalkTalk face au gouvernement anglais a échoué, mardi 6 mars, en cour d’appel. Les deux sociétés s’opposent depuis plus d’un an à une loi visant à lutter contre le téléchargement illégal, arguant que la nouvelle législation serait incompatible avec le (...)
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EU justice chief warns Google over ’sneaking’ citizens’ privacy away - 2 mars 2012
Viviane Reding says there are ’doubts’ over legality of internet giant’s move as French authorities open EU-wide investigation
The European commissioner of justice, Viviane Reding, has delivered a stinging rebuke to Google over changes to its privacy policy, warning that "we aren’t playing games here" and pointing (...)
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Interactive ad that targets women - 20 février 2012
An interactive street advert that uses facial recognition technology to tell men from women is to be launched this week.
The electronic hoarding plays a different message depending on the gender of the person looking at it, the Independent on Sunday reported.
Women will be able to view the full 40-second (...)
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Facebook and Twitter do not need anti-piracy software, says court - 16 février 2012
European court rules social networking sites do not require filtering system in copyright case brought by music royalties firm
Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter cannot be required to install an anti-piracy filtering system, the European court of justice has ruled.
Europe’s top court has made the ruling (...)
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Google and Bing accused of directing users to illegal copies of music - 30 janvier 2012
Major rights holders claim search engines make it ’difficult’ for people to find legal music and films online
The major rights holders’ document obtained under the Freedom of Information Act
Google and other search engines "overwhelmingly" direct music fans to illegal copies of copyrighted tracks online, a (...)
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Backlash over Google move to change privacy settings - 25 janvier 2012
Critics have hit out at Google’s decision to merge personal data from YouTube, Gmail, search, social network Google+ and dozens of other services.
Forthcoming changes to privacy settings will see data shared across all these platforms. Users cannot opt out of the changes.
Google said the update would offer more (...)
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Web firms protest over police plans to cut off websites - 25 novembre 2011
Internet firms and campaigners are protesting against government-backed proposals that would allow police to cut off websites without any court oversight, claiming they threaten free speech online.
Nominet, the not-for-profit company that runs the .uk domain registry, has been in talks with Scotland Yard and the (...)
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Deux FAI britanniques veulent toujours empêcher la riposte graduée - 7 octobre 2011
British Telecom (BT) et TalkTalk ont obtenu ce vendredi le droit de faire appel de la décision de la Haute Cour de justice, qui avait rejeté en avril leur recours contre la loi Digital Economy Act. Celle-ci prévoit l’instauration de la riposte graduée au Royaume-Uni.
La riposte graduée n’est pas encore tirée d’affaire (...)
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Jeremy Hunt urges web firms to join anti-piracy drive - 15 septembre 2011
UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has delivered a hard-hitting speech, calling on net firms, advertisers and credit card companies to cut ties with websites that link to unlawful content.
In a speech to the Royal Television Society, he said he wanted to make it harder for such sites to prosper.
Ideally the (...)
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US anti-piracy body targets foreign website owners for extradition - 4 juillet 2011
Britons could face charges for breaking US copyrights even if they have no link to America and servers are based elsewhere
British website owners could face extradition to the US on piracy charges even if their operation has no connection to America and does something which is most probably legal in the UK, the (...)
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Brussels readies net piracy purge - 24 mai 2011
Europeans who pirate pop songs or movies online could face a new crackdown as Brussels proposes updates to intellectual property laws.
The re-written strategy may draft ISPs into the battle against those who pirate and share content online.
Critics said the strategy threatened to harm privacy in the name of (...)
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CPS under attack over BT and Phorm’s covert online monitoring - 12 avril 2011
Privacy watchdogs fear big corporations can violate UK internet users’ rights with impunity
Privacy groups have attacked the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) after it decided not to prosecute BT and Phorm for secretly tracking the online habits of 18,000 internet users.
BT and Phorm sparked a privacy backlash in (...)
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Nominet talks about domain suspensions - 8 avril 2011
Nominet’s discussions about domain suspensions started yesterday. Over 3,000 sites have so far been "˜suspended’ at the request of the Police. This has been taking place without any formal procedure, although an appeals mechanism has handled 12 complaints, of which 9 were upheld.
Yesterday’s meeting, which included (...)
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Censorship fears over police lobbying to close websites - 8 avril 2011
Police are seeking powers to effectively shut down websites they believe are engaged in criminal activity, prompting fears of increased censorship online.
At a meeting in London on Monday, authorities including the Metropolitan Police and the Serious and Organised Crime Agency lobbied for a new system that would (...)
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Le Royaume-Uni a suspendu 3000 sites sans intervention du juge - 8 avril 2011
Au Royaume-Uni, un débat s’est engagé sur les blocages effectués par le Nominet, le registre du domaine de premier niveau .uk. Jusqu’à présent, 3000 sites ont été suspendus sur demande de la police britannique. Or, aucun contrôle judiciaire n’est survenu au cours de ce processus. Les associations de défense s’alarment des (...)
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Website blocking will not solve copyright concerns - 30 mars 2011
Heavy-handed enforcement of copyright is not the answer when your real goal is to persuade people to pay for online services
Website blocking is on the agenda again, this time in relation to copyright infringement. As reported in the Guardian last week, a government-led working group "“ including ministers and (...)
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Berners-Lee warns ISPs on net neutrality - 17 mars 2011
Inventor of world wide web says plans for ’two-speed’ internet go against its principles
The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has warned internet service providers (ISPs) that plans for a "two-speed" internet go against the principles that have let the net grow so rapidly in the past two (...)
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European Commission takes UK to court over web privacy laws - 30 septembre 2010
The government is failing to comply with European directives concerning internet privacy, the European Commission claims.
The Commission accuses the UK government of failing to provide sufficient safeguards against the illegal interception of internet traffic.
The case, which will go before the European Union’s (...)
