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23 January, 2012 16:32
A literal reading of this survey question leads inevitably to a pair of correct answers: absolutely yes and absolutely not.
21 January, 2012 08:26
Mozilla yesterday extolled the impact of its 12-hour participation in Wednesday's anti-SOPA strike, saying Firefox users and fans generated over a third-of-a-million emails to the U.S. Congress.
21 January, 2012 02:27
Given the week that just was there's really only one topic I can write about: The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA).
20 January, 2012 07:45
A day after an estimated 10,000 websites went dark and more than 7 million people signed a Google.com petition opposing two controversial copyright enforcement bills, opponents of the bills said there's more work to do.
19 January, 2012 22:16
Several major Internet companies and thousands of concerned users are successfully lighting up social networks to spread opposition to controversial anti-piracy bills now under debate in the U.S. Congress.
19 January, 2012 08:26
Wikipedia went dark, Google blotted out its logo and other popular websites planned protests to voice concern over legislation in the US Congress intended to crack down on online piracy.
19 January, 2012 07:18
Beleaguered supporters of two online antipiracy bills today downplayed widespread protests against the legislation and insisted the opposition is misguided and misinformed.
19 January, 2012 07:18
Microsoft today said it opposes a controversial anti-piracy bill in the US, but declined to join the widespread "Internet strike" that sites like Google and Wikipedia were conducting.
19 January, 2012 06:03
A security company's advice on how to circumvent today's Wikipedia blackout has roiled some users.
18 January, 2012 22:53
Mozilla, the open-source organization responsible for Firefox, joined other major technology companies today to protest anti-piracy legislation by blackening the browser's home page.
18 January, 2012 18:58
Wikipedia and some other Internet companies blacked out their websites in one way or the other early Wednesday in protest against controversial legislation in the U.S.
18 January, 2012 10:11
Wikipedia plans to go dark on Wednesday and Google and other websites are also planning protests to voice their concern over US legislation that targets online piracy.
18 January, 2012 09:13
In a remarkable example of a grassroots campaign gone viral, several websites including Google, Reddit, Wikipedia , BoingBoing, Imgur and Tucows, are planning an unprecedented Internet "strike" Wednesday to protest controversial anti-piracy legislation being considered by Congress.
18 January, 2012 07:28
The Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act being debated in the U.S. Congress still have major problems, opponents said Monday, even after the bills' lead sponsors promised to take out some much-criticized portions of the legislation.
17 January, 2012 15:19
Wikipedia has decided to black out the English version of the online encyclopedia for 24 hours on Wednesday to protest against controversial legislation in the U.S., following a cue given by some other Internet sites including social news site Reddit which will black out its site for 12 hours on the same day.