News of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) surfaced last week with the leak of the US chapter concerning intellectual property. A trade agreement between nine countries including Australia, Singapore, and Peru, the bill threatens even more restrictions on intellectual...

Microsoft has banned links that advertise the Pirate Bay on Windows Live Messenger. Torrentfreak reports that any Live Messenger user who tries to send a chat with a Pirate Bay link will receive a message saying that the link has not...

Iran's parliament has recently proposed to implement stricter controls over the Internet, including placing blog posts, comments, and text messages under the same surveillance as mainstream media. In attempts to create a "national" and "clean" Internet, the Iranian government is acting...

Nate Anderson on Ars Technica recently published a piece explaining the dangers of the House of Representatives' newly proposed bill to protect intellectual property on the Internet. According to the plan itself, the bill would implement a “market-based system to protect...