Dan Webb:
It’s About The Hashbangs — Before I get started here’s the disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this rant are my own personal opinions on web development and do not represent the views of my employer, its engineering organisation or any other employees. — A few months back there was a flurry …
Geoff Duncan / Digital Trends:
VeriSign: Internet has almost 210 million domains — The first quarter of 2011 closed with over 209.8 million domains, and registrations were up 7.9 percent for the year. — The Internet may have run out of IPv4 address space earlier this year, but that doesn’t seem to have put any damper …
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
DNS filtering: absolutely the wrong way to defend copyrights — Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has called the PROTECT IP Act “a threat to our economic future and to our international objectives.” He characterized its predecessor as a “bunker-busting cluster bomb when what you really need is a precision-guided missile.”
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Blacklists, ahoy! PROTECT IP Act sails on to Senate floor — The Senate Judiciary Committee this morning unanimously approved the PROTECT IP Act by a voice vote after a brief markup; the hugely controversial Internet blacklisting bill now moves to the Senate floor with minimal changes, and may—or may not—soon come to a vote.
Royal Pingdom:
Facebook gobbles up anti-Facebook domain names — Protecting one’s brand is pretty much standard practice for large online properties like Facebook. As a result, the social network giant now owns hundreds of domain names, of which only a few are actually used. The rest have been taken over from others for “safekeeping.”
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
ICE Seizes More Domains Today, Admin Says “We’ll Be Back” — As indicated in our exclusive report yesterday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have resumed “Operation In Our Sites”, the domain name seizing initiative designed to crack down on copyright infringement.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
U.S. Government Starts New Round of ‘Pirate’ Domain Seizures — Over the past several months a series of domain name seizures by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made headlines across the Internet. — Under the flag of “Operation In Our Sites” …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
On Copyright, Eric Schmidt Is Right and Britain Is Wrong — Google chairman Eric Schmidt has been taking some flak from large media and content companies for comments he made about copyright in Britain, where the authorities have been considering a rewrite of the country’s 300-year-old copyright laws.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Judge has “serious questions” about Righthaven, halts all Colorado cases — A federal judge has put every Righthaven copyright infringement lawsuit in the state of Colorado on hold. — Righthaven, the Las Vegas company that brings infringement lawsuits on behalf of newspapers …
Stephen Chapman / SEO Whistleblower Blog:
Porn, piracy, and personal data: Universities providing more than just education… UPDATE, 5/19/11 2:13PM EST: It appears word is getting around to some of the schools I’ve linked to in this post, as links are beginning to die off (which is a good thing for the universities taking care of business).