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Wikipedia was among several websites to shut down at midnight in protest of anti-piracy bills critics say could amount to censorship.

Editor’s note: Bob Buch is a two-time startup founder, was VP of Business Development at Digg, then at AOL, and is now working on founding his next business. Follow him on Twitter @bobbuch.

Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act or CISPA is a newly introduced bill, supported by tech giants including Microsoft and Facebook. Digital rights advocacy groups the bill may be the next SOPA.

Greg Kumparak is the Mobile Editor at Techcrunch. Greg has been writing for the TechCrunch network since May of 2008. Greg was born just outside of San Jose, and now lives in the East Bay of California. → Learn More

Colleen Taylor is based in San Francisco where she is a reporter for TechCrunch TV. Previously she worked for GigaOM, where she reported on startups and Silicon Valley. Earlier, Colleen reported for Mergermarket, an online newswire and subsidiary of the Financial Times focused on M&A. Before that, she was a contributing...

Neil Diamond had a very sweet weekend indeed. The 71-year-old crooner tied the knot with wife No.3 on Saturday, exchanging vows with manager Katie McNeil, People reports.

Web developer Justin Watt was staying at the Courtyard Marriott in Times Square, New York and using the hotel wifi to access the Internet. He noticed some strangeness on his website... and on every other website he visited (not to mention YouTube was broken.) In short, Marriott is injecting JavaScript into the HTML of every...

You wouldn't download a car, the Internet meme predicted. But if The Pirate Bay has its way that action will be a reality in the years to come. In preparation for this world-changing day, the world's biggest torrent site has just premiered a new section containing the plans for physical items that can be downloaded then...

Hybrids vs. pickup trucks; organic flatbread vs. meat; Heineken vs. Budweiser

* Kim Dotcom argues poses no threat of absconding* Judge says too complicated for immediate bail decision* Dotcom smiles and waves to supporters in court* More arrests in case in Europe* Rival website

You may have seen the preprint posted today by Lenstra et al. about entropy problems in public keys. Zakir Durumeric, Eric Wustrow, Alex Halderman, and I have been waiting to talk about some similar results. We will be publishing a full paper after the relevant manufacturers have been notified. Meanwhile, we'd like to give...

Read 'SOPA sponsor Rep. Lamar Smith to SOPA opponents: You don't matter' on Digital Trends. Rep. Lamar Smith, the chief sponsor of the 'Stop Online Piracy...

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Read 'Bill C-11 could bring SOPA-like online piracy laws to Canada' from our blog The Right Click on Yahoo! News. As the murky status of SOPA and PIPA keeps us in a fog, a Canadian digital policy expert warns us of a clandestine campaign to bring similar online piracy laws north of the border. The Stop Online Piracy Act...

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This wednesday, Wikipedia, Reddit, and a range of other high profile on-line sites will go black in protest of SOPA and PIPA, legislation currently being considered by the U.S. Congress, which will impose regulations on net practices in the name of exerting greater control over "piracy." For those of us who have been involved...

The Home Office says it will bring forward plans to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone in the UK "as soon as parliamentary time allows".

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