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Government scraps website-blocking plans

...The government has dropped plans that would have forced ISPs to block access to websites that are used for copyright infringement. The government has... Read more

3 August, 2011 by David Meyer

European ISPs fight network child-porn blocking

...piece of legislation, one provision of which is having national mechanisms to block access to child pornography websites, overseen by police and the judiciary. Web... Read more

13 January, 2011 by Tom Espiner
Best Practices for for Using V-locity® on Storage Area Networks (SANs)

Best Practices for for Using V-locity® on Storage Area Networks (SANs)

...based on block protocols (e.g., iSCSI, FC), SANs excel at optimizing block access. But because they work at a storage layer underneath the NTFS... Read more

1 October, 2011
Best Practices for using Diskeeper®/V-locity® on Storage Area Networks (SANs)

Best Practices for using Diskeeper®/V-locity® on Storage Area Networks (SANs)

...based on block protocols (e.g., iSCSI, FC), SANs excel at optimizing block access. SANs work at a storage layer underneath the operating system's... Read more

1 March, 2011

UK ISPs ordered to block Pirate Bay website

...that Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media would have to block access to The Pirate Bay (TPB), following an earlier ruling in February... Read more

30 April, 2012

The Pirate Bay infringes copyright, High Court decides

...UK, stating that rights holders can go to court to make ISPs block access to copyright–infringing sites that are hosted overseas. After the film... Read more

21 February, 2012 by David Meyer

SOCA: Police can monitor file download histories

...laws allow rights holders to get a court order forcing ISPs to block access to copyright-infringing sites hosted overseas, as was the case with... Read more

16 February, 2012 by David Meyer

Police threaten RnBXclusive music downloaders with jail

SOCA's takedown of music-sharing site RnBXclusive and arrest of its proprietor on grounds of conspiracy to defraud, rather than under copyright-protection laws, has raised the possibility of tough prison sentences for file-sharers Read more

15 February, 2012 by David Meyer

BT asked to block the Pirate Bay

...BT has been asked to block access to the Pirate Bay file-sharing website, in a letter sent... Read more

4 November, 2011 by Tom Espiner

HTML tweak puts block on web video copying

Developers from Microsoft, Google and Netflix have proposed a standards change that would enable streaming video to be encrypted, but it has run into challenges in a W3C forum Read more

23 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Iranians suffer fresh block on internet services

...use proxy servers over Virtual Private Networks to circumvent government efforts to block access to foreign news sites and social networks such as Facebook and... Read more

21 February, 2012 by Steven Musil

TalkTalk forced to block Newzbin2

...We received a court order on Thursday 9 January requiring us to block access to Newzbin," a spokesman for the company told ZDNet UK. "We... Read more

15 February, 2012

Government denies reviving site-blocking law plans

...BIS), said on Tuesday that the government was "closely considering whether to block access to websites that infringe copyright". However, the Department for Culture, Media... Read more

10 February, 2012
FoxFilter 7.6.4

FoxFilter 7.6.4

...a personal content filter that helps prevent stumbling onto inappropriate content and block access to specific content and Web sites. FoxFilter also includes password-protected... Read more

1 February, 2012

SOPA: Cheat Sheet

...announcing plans to remove a provision in the bill requiring ISPs to block access to certain foreign websites. "After consultation with industry groups across the... Read more

20 January, 2012 by Natasha Lomas

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