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The UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport held a conference on Tuesday, looking into the potential harms of immersive technologies and other issues in the online space. The Cairncross Review emerged following the discussion, suggesting that the government should regulate news portals such as Google, Apple, Facebook and …

Following on from an almost year-long consultation on the matter, the UK government has decided that two-year maximum prison sentences for those caught sharing copyrighted material online might not be enough, and now wants to push for a ten-year maximum sentence instead. According to an Intellectual Property Office report, this …

UK internet providers have been forced in to blocking another 53 piracy websites, bringing the total number of sites banned by court order to 93. The ruling came down from the high court and is the latest in a series of on-going blocks. The Motion Picture Association is obviously supportive …