Archive for the 'Notice and Takedown' Category

• 12.15.07 Index On Censorship: Evasion Tactics posted in Anonymity, Censorship Circumvention, Internet Censorship, Internet Surveillance, Notice and Takedown

  The journal Index on Censorship has published an article I wrote. In it I argue that there is a failure to recognise Internet censorship and surveillance as a growing global concern. There is a tendency instead to criticise the most infamous offenders-notably China and Iran-and to overlook repressive practices elsewhere. There is, however, a growing [...]

• 11.10.07 Demonoid down again posted in Canada, News Monitor, Notice and Takedown

  The bittorrent tracker site demonoid.com:
  The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.
  The Register has more.

• 9.29.07 Legal Threats and Takedowns posted in International, News Monitor, Notice and Takedown

  EFF reports that two blogs that posted information about Uzbek billionaire Alisher Usmanov were shut down after legal threats were sent to their hosting companies.
  Lawyers representing Usmanov contacted the blogs’ webhost, Fasthosts, and after threats to sue under Britain’s expansive libel laws, the blogs were removed. The sites included Tim Ireland’s popular “Bloggerheads” site, and [...]

• 9.12.07 Judge orders removal of rant on YouTube posted in Canada, News Monitor, Notice and Takedown

  Stan Hall was angry at his lawyer and posted a rant about it on YouTube. An Ontario judge has ruled that the video must be removed:
  Superior Court Justice William Jenkins reviewed the computer postings.
  “I find that it includes unproven allegations that Mr. Ledroit and his law firm are incompetent and dishonest,” Jenkins said in [...]

• 8.15.07 Red Flags posted in Free Expression, Notice and Takedown

  The legal notice that resulted in the deletion of some of Hossein Derakhshan’s blog posts by his hosting company and lead to the termination of his blog’s hosting service should raise red flags within the Anti-Censorship community.
  First, the notice claims that in addition to Hossein, both the domain Registrar and the web hosting company are [...]