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FOX Bankrupted a 23-Year-Old Canadian Pirate for Running a 'Simpsons' Streaming Site
We talked to Nick, the 23-year-old man who was ordered to pay FOX $10.5 million dollars for running websites such as "Watch The Simpsons Online."
A Chat with Some Immoral Hackers Who Don't Care About Your Feelings
Chances are, you don't understand how to use the internet. You think you do, but are you even aware of the scale of it? It's fucking massive. Unless you are the number-one person in the entire world at understanding the internet, there is always...
11 Governments Are Meeting in Peru to Figure Out How They Can Control the Internet
Remember SOPA? Well, that was basically an inconsequential victory for rationality and a free internet. 11 countries are meeting in Peru right now to decide how to lock the internet down and further prosecute online pirates.
CISPA's Author Apparently Thinks President Obama Is a 14-Year-Old Twitter Nerd
The Internet's depending on you, Internet freedom advocates!
The Sobering Trademark Saga of Power Hour
The most absurd trademark battle is heading for a grueling 60 rounds.
How to Start an Internet Revolution, in Three Easy Steps
A week after Aaron Swartz's tragic and untimely death, the same collective of Internet activists that helped bring down SOPA are rising up against a new cause. How they might do it all over again.
No New Internet Regulation for Two Years, Says Republican Congressman
Following the failures of SOPA and PIPA, a pair of misguided legislative attempts to outlaw Internet piracy that both stalled in Congress earlier this year, one California politician is calling for Congress to halt on considerations for any new...
Washington Needs to Rethink How it Pushes These Copyright Laws
Lamar Smith just can't do anything right. The Texas congressman and widely despised author of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) ruffled the Internet's feathers once again this week with the quiet unveiling of a new piece of legislation that's drawing...
Practically Nonideological: A Chat with Ethan Zuckerman
When diplomats from nearly 200 countries descend upon Dubai this December to renegotiate the International Telecommunications Regulations, the onerous United Nations treaty that lords over telephone, radio and T.V. networks and that ""may be extended...
The MPAA's Gaping Hole
They overestimated their copyright loss by $50 billion. Here's the math that describes how.
Can One Attack Shut Down The Entire Internet?
Online hacktivist collective Anonymous has had its hands full lately. Between the "SOPA and ACTA protests":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/1/20/when-the-noise-gets-louder-than-the-money-online-and-irl-anti-censorship-protests-are-really-raising-hell...