It seems RIAA President Cary Sherman is still steamed that Google was able to derail the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) by encouraging more than 7 million people to sign petitions opposing the legislation.
Internet service providers to retain all customer IP addresses for 18 months. House Judiciary Committee), Smith and co-sponsors of the bill would like to make a law requiring proactive monitoring and retention of all IP addresses.
Google added 4.5 million names to a petition opposing controversial anti-piracy bills SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act), the Los Angeles Times reported. In September, Senators questioned whether Google had too much power.
The Protect Intellectual Property Act, or Protect IP/PIPA, is a similar bill that some believe is being played off against SOPA as an alternative, when in reality, many of the provisions have the same effects.
To call attention to two bills that would result in massive web censorship and hurt American businesses, Google today has carried through on its promise to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) by blacking out its...
Co-founder Sergey Brin in December posted on Google+ about SOPA and Protect IP Act (PIPA): imagine my astonishment when the newest threat to free speech has come from none other but the United States.
ICE has seized hundreds of sites over the past year, despite the blocking of Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act (COICA) and PROTECT IP and SOPA's opposition. A year ago, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Immigration and Customs...
Wyden has become the savior of the Internet, having derailed other legislation - Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act (COICA) last year and PROTECT IP earlier this year. But yesterday Google led the protests against the Stop Online...
Google was ordered to produce the login IP addresses Applebaum used each time he signed in to his email account, as well as the email addresses and IP addresses of everyone he corresponded with during that time.
As ArsTechnica notes: "The PROTECT IP Act makes a few major changes to last year's COICA legislation. But what the PROTECT IP Act gives with one hand, it takes away with the other. The PROTECT IP Act adds one more entity to this list: search engines.
This week has generated a lot of questions about the responsibility of the provider of a virtual world commerce platform (in this case that would be Linden Lab) in regards to security and protection from fraud and IP theft, as well as other types...
IP Bans - We provide superfast networks that changes your IP easely. Using both Linden Lab can never indentify you, not by hardware ID nor by IP :D It will also seporate your avatars on beeing identified as alternate accounts.
The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act will protect the investment American companies make in developing brands and creating content and will protect the jobs associated with those investments.
Goldman offers some alternatives to litigation, which may prove both more cost-effective and successful in getting the results you ultimately want: "You could decide to spend on some IP protection enforcement, or you could invest it in more...
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act is meant to protect communications between and among users -- not to protect requests from customers for directions on the Internet. Click fraud refunds typically aren't given for activity longer than 60...
TOMs (that's Terrorist Oriented Materials) through search results, they ask each search engine to hand over an entire week's worth of search data completely with cookie info, IP addresses and registration information.
I'm guessing Google could have handed over a list of searches that were entirely unassociated with IP addresses, times, cookies and registration information. You can't see who did a search, IP addresses, cookies, etc.
It doesn't give me a date and time stamp of when the click fraud occurred, nor does it tell me about the alleged infringing IP address," Rohrs explained. What can you do to protect your site from these online thieves?
What can I do protect myself from somebody who engages in the act of repeatedly clicking on a pay per click? IP matching usually works, but it is not perfect. Google's system works by identifying the IP address of a user, a system it has long...
Note: If you're on a network, behind a firewall, or use a large ISP, your IP address may be temporary, assigned only for your current online session. What's Your IP Address? An IP address is a unique identifier used by your computer to let it...
