SOPA: Internet Shutdown 2012 STOPPED?
The controversial SOPA - Stop Online Piracy Act has been stopped dead in its tracks in the House. Until there is broader consensus among the lawmakers about legislation that would crack down on foreign Web sites that infringe on U.S. copyright material and counterfeit goods, Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R.-Va.) has agreed SOPA would not come before the House for a vote. posted
1. SOPA: Internet Shutdown 2012?
The controversial SOPA - Stop Online Piracy Act has been stopped dead in its tracks in the House. Until there is broader consensus among the lawmakers about legislation that would crack down on foreign Web sites that infringe on U.S. copyright material and counterfeit goods, Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R.-Va.) has agreed SOPA would not come before the House for a vote.
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2. Megaupload: Kim Dotcom
Megaupload Shut Down: Kim Dotcom
3. Anonymous declares war
Hacktavist group Anonymous has declared war, Global Cyber War.
Anonymous have compiled and published a dossier containing personal information about employees of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and US Democratic party leaders and their families.
The hacking group released a document on file-sharing site Pastebin.com listing the websites they planned to attack along with the names of US Democratic Party leaders and MPAA employees and their families.
The details included property values, work and home phone numbers and addresses as well as the names, ages and schools of the member's children.
The group - who go by @YourAnonNews on Twitter - took credit for shutting down the Bureau's official website FBI.gov earlier today, which as of 4.25pm AEST continues to display an error message.
They said the attack is in retaliation for the FBI shutting down popular file-sharing website Megaupload.com and charging the founders for online piracy.
Megaupload Limited and sister company Vestor Limited generated "more than $175 million in criminal proceeds" and caused "more than half a billion dollars in harm to copyright owners" through the piracy of "numerous types of copyrighted works," the US Justice Department and FBI said in a joint statement.
The founder of the file-sharing websites 37-year-old Kim Dotcom, also known as Kim Schmitz and three others faced a New Zealand court today and said the group had "nothing to hide".
The four face extradition to the US while the remaining three are not thought to be in New Zealand.
4. Summary of current events relating to SOPA
Summary of current events relating to SOPA
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