Former Pirate Bay host PRQ.se went down in the middle of a police raid on Monday, affecting hundreds of hosted sites and thousands of users of PRQ's other services. But the raid and the outage are unlikely to be related, according to PRQ's ...
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PTI reported that the National Green Tribunal has sought replies of the Union and the Odisha governments and Essar Steel to a plea accusing the firm of drawing water from Baitarani River without forest clearance to facilitate iron ore ...
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Business Standard reported that the vigilance department in Odisha has initiated cases against mine owners in connection with illegal mining. Mr Rajani Kant Singh minister for steel & mines said that the miners against whom cases have ...
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Ofcom has published a draft code today to tackle illegal file-sharers by passing their information onto copyright owners. The regulator was required to put together the code as part of the Digital Economy Act voted through in 2010. ...
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Two U.S. agencies have seized 686 websites accused of selling counterfeit and illegal medicines as part of an international crackdown on online sales of fake drugs. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security ...
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A U.S. District Court judge today threw out a lawsuit filed against Infosys brought by former employee Jay Palmer. In his ruling, Judge Myron Thompson in Alabama almost seemed apologetic, but cited technicalities in Alabama state law that ...
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In October 2010, the European Union adopted the EU Timber Regulation (Regulation 995/2010) to prevent sales of illegal timber and timber products on the EU internal market. From 3 March 2013, any operator who places timber or timber ...
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A probe by Russia's Federal Antitrust Service (FAS) concluded that seven Russian PVC producers apparently conspired to illegally divide the market into spheres of influence shared among them, the agency said Wednesday on its website, adding ...
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The software allows stalkers to continuously track a person's whereabouts. But the US Congress's Senate judiciary committee has approved a bill that makes it a crime for companies to make and intentionally operate such stalking apps. ...
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Electronic waste recycling firm Executive Recycling has been convicted of multiple crimes,including environmental violations related to illegal disposal of e-waste overseas,mail and wire fraud,and smuggling and obstruction,the ...
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New Zealand's prime minister called on Monday for an inquiry into illegal spying on individuals connected with the now defunct file-sharing site Megaupload by one of the country's intelligence services. Prime Minister John Key said Monday ...
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The Iranian government appears to have blocked access to Google's search engine and Gmail webmail service from inside Iran, according to Internet users there. A security researcher going by the Twitter handle of @0xal reported late Sunday ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) investigated the men following complaints from consumers, and has put an additional eight companies on notice that they face action, including fines if it is proved they are sending out unwanted ...
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The upper house of the Russian Parliament passed a bill on Wednesday that the nation's IT industry believes has high potential to lead to Internet censorship. The bill, including amendments to several laws, was adopted by the upper house ...
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To curb gang activity in California,local courts and law enforcement created a special injunctions process that permits the arrest of known gang members for small infractions--in hopes of preventing more violent crimes.But to be really ...
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