It was just an idea posted in a random financial forum, but people saw the implications immediately. The Bitcoin-BCH financial network brings with it an uncensorable Twitter-like microblogging, called Memo.…
German newspapers had sued AdBlock Plus for everything including the kitchen sink, such as "unfair competition" and copyright violation, for letting users opt out of the newspapers' annoying and insecure…
A new crazy bill in front of the Swedish parliament makes ordinary sharing of TV, music, and movies as severe a "crime" as some types of homicide. The Swedish IT…
Sci-Hub is starting to get judgments and censorship applied against it. It's noteworthy that not even murder or genocide is considered cause for such Internet censorship as is now being…
A US Judge has granted an injunction that forces search engines and internet service providers (ISPs), not just domain registrars, to block Sci-Hub. Sci-Hub is a free, online archive that…
France, Spain, and Portugal are now arguing that people sharing music and movies together is a more serious threat to society than terroristic mass murder or child exploitation. This becomes…
Websites and extensions that facilitate Youtube MP3 conversions are disappearing in the United Kingdom (UK). Two large stream ripping sites, MP3juices and YTMP3 are now blocking UK IP addresses from…
Bell Canada, one of Canada's major ISPs, is requesting the Canadian government to create a governmental censorship regime, blacklisting resources that Canadians shall not be reading. According to Bell Canada,…
Every so often, you hear copyright industry lobbyists ask "why copyright law shouldn't apply on the Internet", suggesting that the Internet is a lawless land with regard to people sharing…
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which used to develop standards for the Web, has been captured by the copyright industry. In a doubly controversial vote, the W3C decided that…