The European Commission is to get tough on cybercrime, but won’t target illegal file-sharing, it revealed on earlier today. The Commission proposes to set up a European Cybercrime Centre as part of the European police force, Europol, in The Hague in the Netherlands. The centre would have a separate governing…
EU clamp down on cybercrime, but file-sharers won’t be targeted
The European Commission is to get tough on cybercrime, but won’t target illegal file-sharing, it revealed on earlier today. The Commission proposes to set up a European Cybercrime Centre as part of the European police force, Europol, in The Hague in the Netherlands. The centre would have a separate governing…
Pirate Bay encourages filesharers to dodge Belgium block
Following a court ruling last week that ordered two Belgian ISPs to block access to the Pirate Bay, the website has set up a new domain name to help users get around the blockade. The Belgian Court of Appeal of Antwerp ruled that ISPs Belgacom and Telenet had to set…