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After January 19th Megaupload’s shut down, one of the most popular bittorrent websites, BTjunkie voluntarily closes with the following text: This is the end of the line my friends. The decision does not come easy, but we’ve decided to voluntarily shut down. We’ve been fighting for years for your right to communicate, but it’s time [...]

With more than 600 millions users (2011), Skype stands as the world’s leading VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) software. This system allows all user to benefit from a free conversation, and from an instant messaging on internet. However, phone calls, can also be made to traditonal phones. Since 2003, the company enable free conversations on [...]

Created in February 2005, Youtube stands as the third-most visited website (according to Alexa.com) in the world. It allows millions of internet users to discover, watch and share videos. Within its fast sharing ability and especially the speed we can upload a mobile video frighten all dictatorial regimes insofar as the spreading of the information [...]

Since our last article, the famous website, Pirate Bay known many troubles in trying to reach dutch internet users. Yesterday, an article from the Inquirer pretends that Dutch ISPS have been asked to block The Pirate Bay. However, they answered that It will not “voluntarily” comply with the web site blocking request, and will need [...]

As an online social networking service and microblogging service Twitter is one of the most important website which is also victim from the internet censorship. With 140-characters posts called “tweets”, its community rapidly gained a worldwide popularity with over 300 million users (2011), generationg over 300 millon tweets an handling over 1.6 billion search queries [...]

Facebook, as the most popular social network, has met criticism on a range of issues, including online privacy, child safety, and the inability to terminate accounts without first manually deleting the content. As many other websites, Facebook is also one of the victims of the internet censorship in various kind of situations, and in different [...]