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The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), or HR 3261, is a bill backed by the motion picture and recording industries to once and for all end theft on the Internet. But the creators of some of the web's biggest sites argue it could dramatically restrict law-abiding U.S. companies -- and reshape the web as we know it.
It's a boycott of viral proportions.GoDaddy.com, one of the largest domain registrars on the Internet, stands to potentially lose thousands of customers on Thursday, Dec. 29, after the company gave and then repealed its support for a controversial bill before Congress that many fear could heavily restrict the web.On the eve of what has been dubbed "Dump Go Daddy Day," imgur.com -- pronounced "imager," it's one of the largest image hosting sites in the world, responsible for an astonishing 28 terabytes of bandwidth and nearly 200 million page views today alone -- has already changed its registry entries, foreshadowing the potential negative effect of a boycott set to begin Thursday morning.GoDaddy.com originally supported the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) -- which opponents say will hinder free speech and infringe on first amendment rights -- but quickly recanted its position when the call of a boycott circulated."The outcry kind of forced our hand," imgur founder and owner Alan Schaaf ...
Federal prosecutors have shut down one of the world's largest file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, on charges of violating piracy laws -- a day after a 24-hour blacko...
GoDaddy.com CEO Bob Parsons scrambled to explain his motives Friday after a video he put on Twitter of himself killing an elephant in Zimbabwe went viral -- leading ...
Some animal rights activists and animal lovers are outraged at GoDaddy.com CEO Bob Parsons after he posted online a video of himself hunting and killing an elephant,...
Private equity firms KKR & Co. and Silver Lake Partners, along with a third investor, are nearing a deal to buy the owner of GoDaddy .com, a closely-held company tha...
Legislators will vote this week on a controversial new cybersecurity bill that would allow the government and corporations to easily exchange private information, de...
LightSquared and former FCC chief engineer Edmond Thomas on Wednesday said the GPS test devices that were used by a government agency to test its new network were ri...
Industry groups attempted to corral the growing Internet protest against a proposed cybersecurity bill Monday, announcing what could spell tweaks to the wording of a...
A company that sells certificates guaranteeing the security of websites, GlobalSign, said Tuesday it is temporarily halting the issuance of new certificates over con...
Hoping to finally launch thefaceslap.com? Sorry, Charlie, you're too late: Facebook may have just won the rights to the word "face."The social-networking giant was j...
Online Scammers Pounce on Michael Jackson DeathTuesday, June 30, 2009PrintSAN JOSE, Calif. — Minutes after any big celebrity dies, Internet swindlers get to work. T...
New Web Top-Level Domain Optimized for Mobile BrowsingThursday, May 25, 2006 By Bary Alyssa JohnsonPrintDotMobi , a joint venture company based out of Ireland and Wa...
Free Speech Doesn't Always Exist OnlineMonday, July 07, 2008 By Anick JesdanunPrint APNEW YORK — Rant all you want in a public park. A police officer generally won'...
Legendary computer scientist Vint Cerf -- widely hailed as one of the founders of the Internet itself -- came out against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) on Thursd...
The world's biggest websites are calling for a day of dramatic action Wednesday against a piracy-prevention lawsuit that many fear will reshape the Internet as we no...
In the growing battle for the future of the Web, some of the biggest sites online -- Google , Facebook , and other tech stalwarts -- are considering a coordinated bl...
Hackers aligned with the global cyber-collective known as Anonymous have claimed responsibility for taking down at least six prominent websites, including those of t...
A former senior intelligence official tells Fox News the justice department pulled its website offline Thursday evening, following signs hackers planned a denial of ...
Wikipedia has imposed a 24-hour blackout on its English language website, a move that has impacted millions of global users, but some savvy web surfers are already f...
The lights have come back on at Wikipedia, following a 24-hour blackout that affected millions of users around the world.At midnight Wednesday ET, Wikipedia's Englis...
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