ACTA: Worse than SOPA and PIPA combined!
Quote of the Day: “(ACTA is) more dangerous than SOPA. It’s not coming to me for a vote. It purports that it does not change existing laws. But once implemented, it creates a whole new enforcement system and will virtually tie the hands of Congress to undo it.” - Rep. Darrell Issa Last month, we joined [...]
MegaUpload.com Proof that PIPA and SOPA aren’t necessary
With the recent news about so-called anti-piracy bills that are floating around Congress these days, it’s ironic that after such a loud cry for why SOPA and PIPA are “required” and “necessary” that the Department of Justice shut down file-sharing site MegaUpload.com — using existing laws! I don’t see how anyone could argue that we [...]
An Introduction to Rich Snippets (Video)
Search engines not only display content, they spider web pages, gathering information from your pages, then re-work all that information into a listing that searchers see when they’re looking for stuff — and the cycle is complete. When a person goes to a search engine they have a good idea of what they’re looking for [...]
Stop Internet Censorship, Take Action TODAY
Today hundreds of websites — including Wikipedia, reddit, BoingBoing, FreePress.net and SavetheInternet.com — have gone dark. They’re protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), bills in the House and Senate that could open the door to widespread Internet censorship.1 Thousands of supporters of the open Internet will soon rally [...]
How does a company like Zappos.com get hacked?
Zappos.com is an Amazon.com company that is well-known for selling shoes online, and recently for getting hacked. According to an email send to affected customers (more than 24 million of them) personally identifiable information “may” have been stolen. The message says customers’ names, e-mail addresses, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers, “scrambled” passwords, and the [...]
What is SOPA and why’s it so bad?
SOPA, or the “Stop Online Piracy Act” and its sibling the Protect IP Act are pieces of legislation being considered by the US Congress. They sound like a good idea — after all, who doesn’t want to protect intellectual property and stop piracy, right? Unfortunately, if either (or both) get passed they will drastically change [...]
Why is the mainstream media being so quiet about SOPA?
You’ve probably heard about the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA — a bill in the House that could open the door to widespread Internet censorship. Opposition to the bill has reached a boiling point. Millions of activists, hundreds of startups, social media sites like Tumblr, Reddit and Twitter and even big companies like Google, Yahoo! and eBay have [...]
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Criminalizes ToS Infractions
Have you ever checked a “Terms of Service” agreement without reading it? Have you ever been less-than-truthful in an email or social network? Then you may be a criminal. At least, that’s what the Justice Department claims, and they want to strengthen the law to ensure that they have the power to prosecute you. That’s [...]
Tell Congress: Keep Robocalls Off Our Cellphones
If a new bill gets through Congress, marketing robots will invade your cellphone. The bill, called the “Mobile Informational Call Act of 2011” (H.R. 3035), would amend the Communications Act of 1934 to allow marketers and bill collectors to make endless calls to your mobile phone — just like they currently can on your landline, [...]
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