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Article | 21/05/2013 WikiLeaks' donations barely enough to keep the servers running

Donations to WikiLeaks since January have only been enough to cover expenditures in essential infrastructure, such as servers, according to a transpar...

Article | 17/05/2013 Banking privacy prevails over copyright enforcement, Dutch court rules

Privacy laws protecting bank account holders are more important than providing information to aid in copyright enforcement, according to a Dutch court...

Article | 16/05/2013 German case on embedding YouTube videos referred to EU court

Embedded YouTube videos don't infringe copyright under current German law, but they could violate European rules, the German Federal Court of Justice ...

Article | 16/05/2013 German online copyright law to take effect in August

A German online copyright law that will give publishers the exclusive right to the commercial use of their publications on the Internet will come into...

Article | 15/05/2013 Syria disappears from the Internet again

Internet traffic to and from Syria, a country engulfed by civil war, again came to a halt on Wednesday, according to Internet monitoring company Renes...

Article | 15/05/2013 Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde to run for EU parliament

Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde is planning to run for the European Parliament in 2014.

Article | 14/05/2013 Google has to delete offensive autocomplete results, German federal court rules

Google has to remove search suggestions from autocomplete in Germany if the results are offensive, the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe ruled Tue...

Article | 8/05/2013 Spamhaus DDoS suspect extradited to the Netherlands

A 35-year-old Dutchman suspected of participating in a large DDoS attack on antispam organization Spamhaus was extradited from Spain to the Netherland...

Article | 8/05/2013 Consumer service lawsuit looms for Google in Germany

A lawsuit against Google's customer service practices in Germany is looming after the company declined to sign a document promising German consumer or...

Article | 7/05/2013 Apple's privacy policy violates German data protection law, Berlin court rules

Apple violates German data protection law by asking for users' broad, overall consent in its privacy policy, the Regional Court of Berlin ruled.

Article | 7/05/2013 Operator of German file-sharing site sentenced to almost four years in prison

A 33-year-old man was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison by a German court for running the torrent site torrent.to between December 2005...

Article | 6/05/2013 EU says Motorola abused its position by seeking and enforcing injunction against Apple

Motorola Mobility abuses its dominant position in the E.U. by seeking and enforcing an injunction against Apple in Germany on the basis of its mobile ...

Article | 3/05/2013 Systems manager arrested for hacking former employer's network

A 41-year-old man was arrested for allegedly disrupting his former employer's network after he was passed over for promotions, leading him to quit his...

Article | 2/05/2013 Dutch bill seeks to give law enforcement hacking powers

The Dutch government today presented a draft bill that aims to give law enforcement the power to hack into computer systems -- including those located...

Article | 1/05/2013 Belgian ISPs sued for providing Internet access without paying copyright levies

Sabam, the Belgian association of authors, composers and publishers, has sued the country's three biggest ISPs, saying that they should be paying copy...