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EU to launch scam crackdown
News The European Union will officially launch a crackdown on cross-border scams, including internet fraud, this week. The scheme, called the Consumer Protection Cooperation Network, is an Europe-wide network designed to help law-enforcement bodies...
[February 26, 2007, 15:06]
Downloads soar despite crackdown
News Music downloads among US adults have risen sharply during the past several months, despite a crackdown by the music industry to curb such behaviour. Between February and March, the number of people who reported that they download music files...
[April 27, 2004, 12:05]
US: Warez crackdown has only just begun
News Federal officials said new raids targeting Internet "warez" groups are in the works following the largest US crackdown on Internet piracy in history this week, including potential strikes outside the country.
[December 13, 2001, 10:44]
File-sharer crackdown could be expedited
Blog Peter Mandelson, the secretary of state for business, innovation and skills, is planning a major crackdown on illegal file-sharing, according to reports over the weekend. The issue of copyrighted material being shared online is already the subject...
[August 17, 2009, 15:46]
Rape victim's father demands paedophile crackdown
News s chatrooms by paedophiles prompted the parents of Patrick Green's 13-year-old victim to demand a government crackdown on Internet paedophiles. The father of a Net paedophile victim is successfully lobbying the Home Office into criminalising the...
[March 1, 2001, 13:05]
News Burst: Thus finds paedophile crackdown impossible
News One week into its ambitious crackdown on Internet paedophiles, reports have branded the decision "unworkable", claiming that plans to take a more proactive approach in monitoring all of its newsgroups for illegal pornographic content are impossible.
[February 28, 2001, 15:03]
Illegal-software crackdown targets Glasgow
News A crackdown will be targeted at companies in Glasgow after the city was pinpointed as being a hotspot for illegal software. Hundreds of businesses in the city escaped punishment during a 30-day amnesty last November on unlicensed software by the...
[February 8, 2008, 8:23]
Police: Not enough evidence for paedophile crackdown
News But he said the evidence was not substantial enough to prove the need for a more proactive crackdown on Internet paedophiles. Police and cyberliberty advocates expressed a continuing need for tangible evidence of Internet child abuse on Tuesday...
[March 22, 2001, 11:25]
Hotlines unite for a EC crackdown on cybercrime
News The Inhope Association will be launching a new Web site next Wednesday designed to encourage a global crackdown on Internet child pornography. The Web site, developed by the Association of Internet Hotline Providers in Europe, will coordinate...
[May 28, 2001, 6:28]
Police: Wi-Fi arrest not part of a crackdown
News The arrest of a man for piggybacking on someone else's Wi-Fi-enabled broadband connection is not part of a wider crackdown, police said on Thursday. A 39-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday morning by two police community support officers (PCSOs...
[August 23, 2007, 16:58]
International crackdown scores warez victory
News Three people were arrested in the UK during the crackdown. The US Department of Justice has landed its first conviction against an American defendant caught via Operation Fastlink, a multinational law enforcement effort undertaken against online...
[December 29, 2004, 8:30]
US spam crackdown shows mixed results
News The company attributed the decline in US-sourced spam in part to the nation's crackdown against fraudulent email. While the United States continues to be the world's worst source of spam, computers there are relaying far fewer junk emails than a...
[October 13, 2005, 13:30]
Three UK arrests in global piracy crackdown
News Officers from Britain's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) made three arrests on Thursday as part of an international crackdown on Internet software piracy. Operation Fastlink is the second major piracy crackdown to involve the NHTCU.
[April 23, 2004, 12:45]
Software file-sharers face crackdown
Talkback So if I play games over the internet (which requires a reasonable amount of bandwidth over extended periods), my ISP will be spying on me?
[February 1, 2006, 8:39]
BSA launches two-month crackdown
Blog Comment My answer to that phone call: "As the software I use is all open source, including the operating system, I am therefore up to date and legal on all my licences.
[June 3, 2009, 21:38]
Software file-sharers face crackdown
Talkback ISP are definitely cracking down, any large downloads are going to be checked, I know several people who have been warned. Doesnt matter how you encrypt/relay your data the fact that you are using a lot will mean ISP's will be looking at you, not...
[January 31, 2006, 13:54]
International crackdown scores warez victory
Talkback I'm afraid this is a lost cause. Remove 20 servers, 20 servers/mirrors pop up . For every warez group taken down, there are three ready to move into the old patch.
[December 29, 2004, 16:52]
US legislature suggests China Web crackdown
Talkback This won't work. All china has to do is filter the results before they come in. China simply runs the results throught its own intermediate proxy and drops the "offending" html search or other results.
[February 20, 2006, 18:29]
File-sharer crackdown could be expedited
Blog Comment What gets me is mandelson fly's off to the private residence of a bank dynasty family, and over a meal talks to the head media mogul of dreamworks amongst others, and upon returning back to the UK then decides to go on a one man mission to...
[August 26, 2009, 21:14]
Privacy group fights P2P crackdown
Talkback Music Tastes change so much it's impossable to keep up with the latest music. One minute you buy the best album ever then the next day it's no longer cool to have that album, the music industry keep spuing out album after album without a thought of...
[October 14, 2005, 16:33]
