Questions tagged [internet]
For questions about the internet. Please ensure a tag for the jurisdiction is also included. This tag should not be used when the question does not crucially hinge on internet usage or involvement.
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My nickname violate the Google+ Names Policy, how about my privacy?
I would like to use my nickname instead of full name when commenting on random posts within Google network.
However when I wanted to enforce that (by changing my Full Name into nickname), I found out ...
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Website Registration Terms Agreement - Implicit With a Blurb or Need Checkbox?
During sign-up, the user must agree to the terms and conditions and privacy policy.
Is it sufficient to state: "by registering, you agree to our terms of service and privacy policy" (where the words ...
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How to prevent internet company from changing Terms of Service?
So you sign up on website.com, you click on the notorious I accept tos and privacy policy checkbox (many without reading it) and you pay for the service.
Month later, website changes their TOS page ...
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Where do telecommunication crimes take place?
In the United Kingdom, where does a telecommunication crime take place?
Is it the location of the criminal or the victim?
For instance, if you hacked a computer in London, but you were based in ...
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Is it "wrong" to copy a photo from an article (with photographers name and link to article) on the web and tweet it?
With the word "wrong" (in the question title) I am referring to whether something is either a breach of copyright or otherwise considered "bad" behavior.
The behavior here would be copying a photo ...
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Returning goods bought online in Poland as foreigner
I am a Czech national living just at the Polish border. I want to buy a laptop online at Polish online store called Morele.net. The store offers the goods to be sent to a Polish post office for pickup ...
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Internet banking regulations in the UK
I'm writing a report for some University coursework, in which I am supposed to analyse the security of an online bank.
I'm trying, with some difficulty, to find any laws/regulations/standards that ...
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Transferring public domain material into a country where it is still in copyright
I've noticed that, in Australia, books created by authors who've died before 1955 are in the public domain.
For example, all of George Orwell's works are available from the University of Adelaide: ...
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Why are some ebooks readily available as PDF?
There are some ebooks that are readily available as PDF, and can be downloaded from multiple sources. For example, "Effective Java" by Joshua Bloch can be found easily on the web. There are even ...
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Am I allowed to store data of EU citizens as an Indian company?
We are a company based in India and are frequently being visited by people from overseas.
Due to the recent safe harbour developments, are we allowed store data of EU-citizens on a cloud server ...
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When google.com was available to be bought after a clerical error, did they lose their right to own it?
When the domain google.com became available to be bought after a clerical error, it was bought by a man for $12 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34504319).
I'm curious to know, because Google ...
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Why is Pirate Bay charged but not Kickass Torrents?
Why is only Pirate Bay charged with copyright infringement, and not other sites?
Because, for example, Kickass Torrents (KAT) also does the same things as Pirate Bay and it's not charged. Why so? KAT ...
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Is it legal to use Youtube thumbnails on another website?
Let's say I have a website where each page has an embedded Youtube video, and there are also a list of this web pages, can this list display those video thumbnails as the image of the link to the page ...
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Is it infringement to give a link to a copyrighted file?
Does posting a link to a copyrighted file, such that accessing the linked file would constitute infringement, but where the file itself is not on my servers, constitute any sort of crime or ...
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Copyright: Use an Audio Clip of a DVD
I have a question regarding copyright-laws.
I want to write an Android App. In this app I want to use an Audio-Clip of a Simpsons-DVD, that I bought. This audio-clip is about 20 seconds long.
This ...
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