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May be, the resurrection of the former SOPA is now happening. In a last post we already listed the negative consequences of the SOPA bill. Fortunately this law actually was never adopted. Nevertheless The Intellectual Property Attaché Act slipped in for consideration over the weekend, seems to resurrect some pieces of SOPA to build a global intellectual property [...]

Since June 2000, Information Technology Act, India put a legal framework to regulate Internet use and commerce, including digital signatures, security and hacking. The act allows police powers to search and arrest without a warrant. The 2008 amendment empowered the previous act by giving the power to block Internet sites and content and criminalized sending [...]

CISPA, stands for the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011  (H.R. 3523). More precisely, this new bill is a kind of a successor of the latest SOPA legislative proposal which was shot down at the beginning of the year. According to EFF’s analysis, this bill could be used to give copyright enforcers the ability to spy on [...]

In a recent article we described how tight could be the internet censorship in China. The blocking of many sites make the browsing hard for the expats or even for Chinese residents who wish to browse freely. Since 2011 VPN blocking, users begin to feel helpless dealing with the new restrictions. The Great Firewall managed to block PPTP and [...]

Is Skype blocked in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)? It has been brought to our attention that our website has been blocked by one or more ISPs in the United Arab Emirates. Unfortunately there is very little Skype can do about this situation. The best course of action would be for you to speak to [...]

In Saudi Arabia, all Internet traffic go through a proxy farm located in King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology. Numerous websites are blocked according to two major lists established by the Internet Services Unit (ISU): The “immoral” (mostly pornographic) sites An other list based on directions from the Ministry of Interior (includes sites critical of the [...]

While sites like Wikipedia, Reddit or even Google protested on January 18th 2012 against SOPA, the ACTA mobilization seemed very small whereas the  law’s restrictions appear to be stronger. There are several criticism of the agreement. Countries like India and Brazil have been vocal opponents, telling it will strongly harm the economy of emerging countries. [...]

The High Authority for the diffusion of works and the protection of rights on Internet (Hadopi) is an independant french authority which was created in 2009. This organization is responsible for several tasks: Observation of the use of works on the Internet and promotion of good practice, Fight against online piracy, Regulation of technical measures [...]

Since 2005, the Singaporean government rules a wide control of the internet. The regulation’s head also called the Media Development Authority (MDA) detains the right to ban any access to the websites of their choice. For instance, 2008 recent banishement is a proof of the violation of the internet freedom. Singapore denies that there is [...]

The Chinese’s internet censorship system is among the most stringent in the world. In our days, the government blocks Web sites such as Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and also VOIP (voice under IP) such as Skype. Since 2009 Ürümqi riots, the authorities are fearing an increase of the internet protes. Therefore, Google also suffered from Chinese’s [...]