Another 4 months, still no FCC Video Competition Report (1)
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Well, another four months have passed since I last asked this question, but let me pose it again: Where exactly is the FCC’s Video Competition Report and why is it taking so long to get it out the door? It wouldn’t have anything to do with a certain Chairman Ahab still trying to get his cable whale, would it? No, of course not. I’m sure there’s a perfectly rational reason that this 13th Annual report ...
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Comcast Metered Broadband Official — Beware What You Download (12)
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Karl Bode over on DSL Reports reports that Comcast will institute a 250 GB cap on its broadband connections starting Oct. 1. Expect other carriers to follow suit and make tiered broadband a reality. Much as I would like to think otherwise, this is the end of the Internet as we know it. The caps are a move to ensure that the gouging scheme put in place by Comcast and other cable providers stays intact ...
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richhand said:
Hmmm, how will I use my 250 GB Comcast cap? Move off Comcast!
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Sean said:
That sucks. I have been watching quite a bit of stuff on Hulu and Netflix recently, not to mention that I do store an ever increasing amount of stuff in the cloud.
VP Candidate Biden Is No Friend to File Sharing, Net Neutrality Protection or Online Privacy [Net Neutrality] (2)
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CNet's Declan McCullagh wrote up an informative history of Joe Biden's tech-related voting record—if Biden's name rings a bell, it's because he's the guy Barack Obama picked to be his vice president last Friday night. Maybe you don't care about the doings in Washington, but you may want to know that Biden considers a lot of what you do care about criminal activity. Here's what I'm talking about: • He asked Congress to spend $1 ...
Comcast cool with FCC ruling, will just slow all of your traffic now (2)
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Filed under: Industry, Regulatory, Cable, Internet First off, you've got to be kidding us. Okay, now that we've got that out, get a load of this. After the FCC told Comcast earlier this month that its data discrimination tactics weren't kosher, the provider has decided to react by simply slowing all internet traffic on its heaviest users. More specifically, Mitch Bowling, Comcast's senior vice president and general manager of online services, stated in a recent ...
Comcast's New Network Management Will Slow Down Heavy Users for Up to 20 Minutes [Comcast] (5)
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While Comcast's new network management scheme—to slow down heavy bandwidth users' entire connection—started back in June, we're just getting some of the grislier details. People hitting their pipe...
Help ORG respond to UK consultation on illicit p2p (2)
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Last month, the Government announced it would be consulting with the public on ways to curb illicit filesharing. ORG will be developing a response to the consultation over the next two months and we’d like your help. We’ve put the Executive Summary of the consultation document online. Please use our interactive consultation tool to tell us what you think of the Government’s options for combating illicit filesharing. The Government’s “preferred” option is to have codes ...
McCain, technology, and you (2)
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John McCain’s technology plan was released yesterday. Since the plan is from a politician, obviously you might want to approach with skepticism, but click through for our summery. In no way does this reflect the views and/or opinions of Crunchgear, we’re just summarizing the long-ass article for you. Encourage Investment in Innovation Low taxs and tax breaks for research and development Ensure the American Workforce is Skilled and Ready to Lead the Technological Revolution Education ...
Whose advice would you take on the future of the Internet, McCain’s or Craig’s? (5)
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Craig Newmark weighs in on McCain’s scary Net agenda. (Craig says something very nice about me, but I’m linking to him anyway.) Craig’s written about this before. For example: Why a president needs to know tech. And the cuticle on Harold Feld’s pinky knows more about the Net than all of McCain’s personal IM list does (because McCain doesn’t have one). Harold is, um, not impressed with McCain’s policy statement. To put it mildly. [Later: ...
McCain models tech policy on our oh-so-successful energy policy (9)
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THE MCCAIN NEGATIVE WORDCLOUDWords Not in McCain’s Tech Policy | blog |social network | collaboration | hyperlink | democracy | google | wikipedia | open access | open source | standards | gnu | linux | | BitTorrent | anonymity | facebook | wiki | free speech | games | comcast | media concentration | media | lolcats | McCain has delivered his tech policy. And it’s clear: This election will determine whether America willfully ...
CRTC To Rule on CAIP v. Bell Case By October 31st (1)
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Who Shouldn't Solve This Internet Crisis (5)
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Last week in the Washington Post, Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell published an op-ed asking, “Who Should Solve This Internet Crisis?” Based on that article and his lengthy, flawed dissenting statement at last week’s FCC meeting, this much is clear: It shouldn’t be McDowell. Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, secretly blocked Internet users from accessing legal content. It got caught. Last Friday, a bipartisan majority at the FCC moved to hold it accountable. That’s ...
Giz Explains: How Broadband Usage Caps Will Kill Internet Video [Giz] (9)
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NBC's scheduled coverage of the 2008 Olympics is absolutely breathtaking in its scope: It's broadcasting over 3,600 hours of the world's greatest athletes performing feats that reveal how shapeless and amoebic the rest of humanity is—that's 1,000 more hours than the last 12 Summer Olympics combined. The internet is a huge component of their nearly omniscient coverage. You can even download and watch full-length events. But NBC has a fat red warning on the page: ...
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Comcast Told To Stop Blocking Web Tool For User Rights, But DHS Adds To Their Rights (4)
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Jamie covered this a few weeks ago, but now it’s official. Score one for us on net neutrality. UPI: (h/t Nate) Broadband Internet customers of cable television giant Comcast should be free to use file-sharing software, the Federal Communications Commission says. The commission voted Friday to order Comcast to stop blocking its Internet customers from using BitTorrent, an online software application that enables users to share large movie, TV show and music files, The Hollywood ...
What's a reasonable approach for managing broadband networks? (5)
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Posted by Vint Cerf, Chief Internet EvangelistAs we said a few weeks ago, the Federal Communications Commission's order last Friday in the Comcast-BitTorrent dispute should help ensure that today's broadband networks remain open platforms to the Internet. But more broadly, the recent attention on Comcast -- and on Time Warner's recently launched trial of "consumption-based billing" -- raises the question: what is a reasonable approach for broadband networks to manage their Internet traffic?Network capacity (bits ...
Comcast Decision Scratches a 20-Year Itch (1)
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Later this month I will celebrate 20 years as a public interest communications lawyer. After two unhappy years in a private law firm, I walked into the small and cluttered offices of Media Access Project in August 1988 and never looked back. We spent most of our time in those early days trying to get broadcasters and cable operators to live up to their public responsibilities – impossible work in the laissez-faire Reagan-Bush I years. ...
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Wow. Congrats to Gigi and the whole media reform movement. She puts it all together beautifully here.
Comcast Decision Scratches a 20-Year Itch (2)
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Later this month I will celebrate 20 years as a public interest communications lawyer. After two unhappy years in a private law firm, I walked into the small and cluttered offices of Media Access Project in August 1988 and never looked back. We spent most of our time in those early days trying to get broadcasters and cable operators to live up to their public responsibilities – impossible work in the laissez-faire Reagan-Bush I years. ...
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Wow. Congrats to Gigi and the whole media reform movement. She puts it all together beautifully here.
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Great discussion page on Net Neutrality on Opposing Views (seen through TechCrunch). Download netneutrality.comicdocContribute commentMichael Geist Blog (42) permalink
The CBC reports that the CRTC has advised CAIP and Bell that it will issue its decision in the throttling case by October 31st.Shared by Chris L (20)Contribute commentOStatic blogs (33) permalink
If you live in the U.S., it's hard to escape news about the upcoming presidential elections, but that isn't the only thing happening on the political front. There's a movement afoot to locate congressional candidates in the U.S. House and Senate who support copyright reform and other technology issues, and mobilize the open source community to get them re-elected. GeekPAC, originally known as BytesFree.org, is a grassroots campaign designed to build political support and effect ...Shared by CJ (76)Contribute commentNYT > Technology (122) permalink
The F.C.C. upheld a complaint against Comcast, which it said had illegally inhibited users of its high-speed Internet service from using popular file-sharing software.Shared by Andrew Ruess (97)Contribute comment
