Last week, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to reject ACTA, striking a major blow to the hopes of supporters who envisioned a landmark agreement that would set a new standard for intellectual property rights enforcement. The European Commission, which negotiates trade deals such as ACTA on behalf of the European Union, has vowed to revive …
The two leaders of a congressional committee have sent a letter to the Department of Justice demanding a briefing on why the department chose to so fervently pursue charges against coder and internet activist Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide earlier this month. read more
Last week, an Ontario court rejected a request to send mirror-imaged copies of 32 computer servers to authorities in the U.S., indicating that a more refined order is needed. Megaupload did not contest the seizure of the computers. read more
France is proposing an Internet Tax which was reported in the New York Times. The proposal if it follows through will affect the landscape of internet governance in days ahead.read more
Slashdot points out that some members of Anonymous have set up a We the People petition on the White House’s website, asking the government to recognize DDoS as a valid form of protest. read more
The Web giant’s executive chairman tells reporters that his private delegation warned officials that global Internet access is key to a developing economy. Eric Schmidt wrapped up a controversial visit to North Korea today, saying that his private delegation warned officials that global Internet access was key to developing its economy. read more
A recent case of anonymous identity has attracted a buzz of discussions in a certain African email forum managed by the African IP addressing organization, Afrinic. At the time of discovery, the owner of the online Identity Lerato Ma, defended her use of the “pseudo-name” and attributed it to constant harassment and a case of …
We already noted this morning that the US, a bunch of European countries, and a sprinkling of other nations around the globe have refused to sign the new ITR agreement put together at the ITU’s World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), read more
SOUTH Africa has signed up to a controversial treaty that has internet companies and free speech advocates up in arms. Among the major issues raised at the ITU’s global conference on international telecommunications, held over the past two weeks in the United Arab Emirate of Dubai, was the insertion of a resolution on the internet. …
It was a unanimously 397 to Zero (o) vote in favor of a resolution by the US House of Representatives urging the U.S. government not to give the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Unionj (ITU) control over the Internet. The WCIT conference that started on Monday 3rd ended on December 14. According to the House’s website, the bill …