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… The Pirate Bay, but in third place came a site that over its relatively short life has been shooting up through the rankings. Founded in just … has caused it to appear in numerous MPAA, RIAA and government reports, in the US and elsewhere. News today reveals that the …
… weeks ago Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN chalked up another victory. On May 10th, the Court of The Hague ordered an additional five ISPs – UPC, KPN, Tele2, T-Mobile and Telfort – to block two TPB IP addresses …
… whereby someone posts a hyperlink which allegedly provides content relevant to the current discussion, but in fact leads to the 1987 Rick Astley song …
… luckily there’s censorship. In the UK mobile networks have so-called “child protection filters” to deal with shady content, and in many … filters block all sorts of nasty and offensive content, including TorrentFreak. While we’re not banned by all providers …
… team were at Auckland’s High Court to request a judicial review of the legality of the search warrants that were used to raid his Coatesville mansion in January. During the hearing Dotcom’s lawyer Paul Davison …
… 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 …
… the historic protests in January SOPA and PIPA were ‘shelved’. In a keynote speech at Freedom 2 Connect, Demand Progress founder … at what happened. Swartz explains how SOPA was effectively stopped, and why this was so crucially important. The battle over the …
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Left Quote“The Pirate Bay has been one of the most important movements in Sweden for freedom of speech, working against corruption and censorship.
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