Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
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.
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 now know it.
Google is the latest site to throw its weight into Wednesday's battle against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) , a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives designed to crack down on sales of pirated U.S. products overseas. Critics say the legislation could hurt the technology industry and infringe on free-speech rights, arguing that it could weaken cyber-security for companies and hinder domain access rights."There are smart, targeted ways to shut down foreign rogue websites without asking American companies to censor the Internet," Google spokeswoman Samantha Smith told FoxNews.com. "So tomorrow we will be joining many other tech companies to highlight this issue on our U.S. home page."The company plans to add a link on its home page to an anti-SOPA information site, according to CNET . And Wikipedia plans eve...Can the world live without Wikipedia for a day?The user-driven online encyclopedia is one of the Internet's most visited sites, and at midnight Eastern Standard Time...
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...
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,...
Legislators will vote this week on a controversial new cybersecurity bill that would allow the government and corporations to easily exchange private information, de...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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