Tag: Sites
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UK ISPs To Block Counterfeit Goods Sites
Internet service providers have been lobbied to take down websites that offer counterfeit goods from major brands, such as Cartier and Montblanc, whose owners Richemont are the authors of the lawsuit. The massive brand owner, fully known as Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A., were on the warpath due to the counterfeiters, who had been a major…
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New Cookie Law Set To Come Into Force
Today is that day that new European legislation comes into force which defines what details a website can store about its visitors in text files which are commonly known as Cookies.
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Anonymous turns anti-hero in fight against child abuse online
Anonymous, the online hacking troupe that has previously crippled world governments and entertainment giants has turned its attention to cleaning up the internet from child pornography and preventing paedophilia. The tech troublemakers have issued a warning to a number of servers, in particular Freedom Hosting, accusing the web hosts of “openly supporting” child pornography. This…
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India become first country to ban .XXX domains
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (thankfully and creatively abbreviated as “ICANN”) recently approved the domain suffix of .XXX – to replace the commonplace .com, .co.uk, .org etc. – and you can imagine the type of publisher who would want use such a web domain. Some would obviously take offence, and a number…