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Police threaten RnBXclusive music downloaders with jail

...UK. The UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency has put up this takedown notice on the RnBXclusive website. In the UK, copyright-infringing sites that... Read more

15 February, 2012 by David Meyer

SOCA: Police can monitor file download histories

...sites hosted overseas, as was the case with RnBXclusive. However, the RnBXclusive takedown was carried out under conspiracy-to-defraud laws, rather than copyright enforcement... Read more

16 February, 2012 by David Meyer

Google releases transparency data for mashups

...Google has released raw data for the law enforcement and takedown requests it deals with, in the hope that developers will use this... Read more

30 September, 2011 by David Meyer

Nominet makes formal call for Soca takedown views

...Nominet has formally called for opinions on potential legal powers for fast takedowns of websites and domains, following proposals by the Serious Organised Crime Agency... Read more

10 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Iran cuts off access to the internet

...among other online tools, but the government has not admitted to the takedown Read more

10 February, 2012 by Charles Cooper

Microsoft offers $250,000 Rustock botnet bounty

...Rustock was one of the most prolific spam-sending botnets before its takedown, sending around 30 million spam emails per day. There are larger botnets... Read more

19 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Dutch police take down Bredolab botnet

Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the suspected mastermind and seized the servers behind the malware-spamming botnet, which was built in layers 'like an onion' for protection Read more

26 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Microsoft tops Google Search takedown list

...Google The report is intended to give an indication of all the takedown requests Google gets for its various services. With copyright, however, it is... Read more

25 May, 2012 by David Meyer

Mozilla resists US agency takedown request

The US Department of Homeland Security has requested that Mozilla pull the MafiaaFire add-on designed for the Firefox web browser Read more

6 May, 2011 by Ben Woods

UK requested 135 YouTube takedowns

The UK government requested 135 YouTube takedowns in the first half of the year on the grounds of 'national... Read more

26 October, 2011

Megaupload takedown shows need for fresh debate

...The takedown of Megaupload and the gutting of SOPA have made for a dramatic... Read more

21 January, 2012 by David Meyer

Web takedowns come under EU scrutiny

...on e-commerce, stakeholders complained that it is not clear how these [takedown] procedures are meant to work. As a result, illegal content stays online... Read more

11 January, 2012 by David Meyer

Global spam email down after Rustock takedown

...spam mail volumes have been reduced by about a third following the takedown of the Rustock botnet, according to Symantec, with the number expected to... Read more

1 April, 2011 by Tyler Thia

Government proposes ISP mediation for web takedowns

...to discuss a mediation service for people who want to request a takedown of incorrect information held online. The internet needs a similar mediation service... Read more

1 November, 2010 by Tom Espiner

LulzSec notches up Brazilian government site takedown

Hacker group LulzSec said it has taken two Brazilian government websites offline. The Brasil.gov.br and... Read more

22 June, 2011

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