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Ukraine shuts down leading file-sharing site
Ukrainian authorities have shut down a popular file-sharing website saying it violates copyright laws, officials said Wednesday.Interior Ministry Spokesman Volodymyr Polishchuk said that Ex.ua was closed Tuesday after complaints from Microsoft, Adobe and other companies. The ministry said it has confiscated 200 servers that were used to support the website and law enforcement agents were questioning

After protest, Congress puts off movie piracy bill

Caving to a massive campaign by Internet services and their millions of users, Congress indefinitely postponed legislation Friday to stop online piracy of movies and music costing U.S. companies

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Ajit Balakrishnan: Pirates of the modern world

On January 18 users attempting to access the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia saw a black screen, and a statement that first said “Imagine a world without free knowledge”, and then

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INFLUENCE GAME: Online companies win piracy fight

Outspent but hardly outgunned, online and high-tech companies triggered an avalanche of Internet clicks to force Congress to shelve legislation that would curb online piracy. They outmaneuvered

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NZ police raid file-sharing site founder's mansion

New Zealand police raided several homes and businesses linked to the founder of Megaupload.com, a giant file-sharing site shut down by U.S. authorities, on Friday and seized guns, millions of

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A Q&A on contested Internet anti-piracy bills

With the fight moving to the floor of the Senate next week, a look at the main issues surrounding legislation to stop foreign copyright pirates and why high-tech companies oppose it as a threat to

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