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Filesharing website urges users to circumvent ruling and write to local MPs and ISPs

Using magnets instead of torrents 'will make is harder for our common enemies to stop us'

Looking for the full gory experience of Lollipop Chainsaw? You’ll have to buy the premium edition. Reports have emerged that the regular SKU of the next title from Japanese developer Grasshopper Manufacture will be censored in Japan. This will tone down the blood and violence, and be rated CERO D, …

But little evidence suggests ACTA would enforce censorship

In what could prove a very big blow to the activities of internet pirates, Google has announced a number of new policies designed to limit the accessibility of illegal content online. In a document entitled ‘Making Copyright Work Better Online’ on its Public Policy blog, Google has ledged to radically …

The Irish arm of telcoms operator O2 has begun censoring websites in the region, with image sharing site Imgur seemingly the first portal identified for blockage. Talk has been rumbling of behind-the-scenes government negotiations regarding the introduction of an official state policy that would see websites accused of hosting malicious …

The product manager for Fallout 3 developer Bethesda Pete Hines has said that different sensitivities in different global regions are a source of frustration for the firm, CVG reports. The statement comes after the studio was forced to make a number of changes to its upcoming post-apocalyptic RPG in order …

Proposed ban on production of violent games may force hand