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Article | 26/10/2006 Groups launch Digital Freedom campaign
It's time for consumers, musicians and filmmakers to band together and advocate copyright laws that make sense for them, not for large music labels an...
Article | 19/10/2006 Social-networking site for opinion leaders to launch
A new social-networking Web site, aimed at "opinion leaders" in politics and other issues, will launch Thursday with a roster of members including for...
Article | 19/09/2006 VeriSign, critics gear up for ICANN hearing
A VeriSign official defended its contract to operate the .com domain Monday, after Network Solutions accused the Internet Corporation for Assigned Nam...
Article | 18/09/2006 Social networking sites: The next big thing in politics
Social networking Web sites such as MySpace and YouTube are already having a major impact on the way political campaigns are run, but a group of socia...
Article | 13/09/2006 US man pleads guilty to copyright theft
An Erie, Pennsylvania, man involved in a BitTorrent peer-to-peer network has pleaded guilty to copyright infringement and faces up to five years in pr...
Article | 11/09/2006 Software pirate gets record sentence
A U.S. judge on Friday sentenced the owner and operator of iBackups.net to 87 months in prison, the longest sentence ever given for software piracy, a...
Article | 29/08/2006 Verizon launches do-it-yourself gaming server software
Verizon Communications has released new software that allows PC and console gamers to set up their own servers to host multiplayer games on their own ...
Article | 18/08/2006 Judge: US gov't wiretapping program illegal
A U.S. judge has ruled that a U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) program to wiretap telephone and Internet traffic of U.S. residents is illegal and m...
Article | 3/08/2006 Man charged with soliciting minor through MySpace
A 26-year-old man from Somers, Connecticut, faces up to 30 years in prison for allegedly having sexual relations with a 15-year-old girl he met throug...
Article | 20/07/2006 Microsoft commits to new competition principles
Microsoft will commit to following the principles of its 2002 antitrust settlement with the U.S. government beyond its end in late 2007, and in some c...
Article | 18/07/2006 Internet pioneers debate net neutrality
A net neutrality law isn't needed because the U.S. already has antitrust laws that would keep broadband carriers from acting in an uncompetitive manne...
Article | 11/07/2006 New VOIP-based phishing scam popping up
A new kind of identity theft scam, with thieves using easy-to-obtain VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) telephone numbers to trick Internet or teleph...
Article | 7/07/2006 Wikipedia founder tackles politics
The founder of Wikipedia, the peer-edited online encyclopedia, has launched a new political wiki site, saying it's "time for politics to become more i...
Article | 30/06/2006 Two men sentenced to prison on 'warez' charges
Two US men have been sentenced to prison terms for their participation in online software piracy, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced late We...
Article | 19/06/2006 Web site operator pleads guilty to piracy
BuysUSA.com's owner pleaded guilty to selling nearly US$20 million worth of pirated software through the mail, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sa...

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