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How the FCC Comcast Decision Limits Net Neutrality
2008-08-29 16:13:00 -By Scott Cleland Contrary to conventional wisdom, the FCC’s order on Comcast’s network management practices, reined in the net neutrality movement much more than it advanced their agenda. The old adage is true here, be careful what you ask for — FreePress/Public Knowledge. At its rawest level, the chest-beating petitioners got the FCC to reiterate what ...
By: Publius Forum
Transcript of Lecture on Google, Net Neutrality, Monopolies, Click Fraud, P
2008-06-20 12:21:00 -By Scott Cleland Unleashed: Transcript of Griffin/Cleland talk on Google, net neutrality, monopolies, click fraud, privacy For those who like the written format, here is the transcript of ChipGriffin’s interview of me on all things Google. The transcript is just below the podcast button to hear the interview. This interview turned out to be one of the most ...
By: Publius Forum
Save the Internet
2008-06-02 01:07:00 I was browsing the Xenos website, and found a link to Save the Internet. I signed up for updates and signed the petition and everything. I then put a link in the sidebar. I thought I was done, but then I noticed a link in the Tech News Digg RSS Feed at the top of ...
By: ERing: The Blog
Net Neutrality in Canada
2008-05-30 02:23:00 A new bill put before the House of Commons in Canada will mean forcing the very few ISPs to stop throttling the speed at which people can use the internet. At the moment Bell and Rogers are the two largest carriers in Canada with a few smaller companies trying to compete - the main problem ...
The forgotten net traffic problem: Spam
2008-05-27 13:25:00 So much of the discussion has been focused on file sharing that one of the biggest and still growing problems confronted by every netizen and enterprise is Spam. The unsolicited commercial message continues to run rampant clogging the systems and dogging the productivity of those who have to moderate it. While the RIAA and ...
By: Third Pipe
Rally on Parliament Hill for Net Neutrality
2008-05-22 13:48:00 Canadians outraged by the slow strangling of the internet are invited to share their outrage with the Parliament of Canada on May 27th. The Net Neutrality Rally will demand legislation to protect the internet from predatory practices like traffic shaping and data management, and to encourage transparency among ISP companies. Transportation assistance is available -- check out the Net Neutrality Rally webite for more details. This is an important first step in the battle to save the internet -- a strong showing at this rally could be the beginning of legislative protection for net neutrality in Canada. You can also check out savethenet.ca for more info on the movement to protect net neutrality in Canada. See earlier stories on net neutrality: Lawrence Lessig on net neutrality Net neutrality in Canada under siege: Bell implements ?traffic shaping? service to throttle Internet access
Cable: they keep talking but, they?re still blocking
2008-05-17 05:17:00 While the cable industry led by Comcast has slithered into the ambulance chaser never land of redefining language to fit questionable business practice, the studies we keep seeing say they are still blocking their subscribers’ traffic. This kind of up is down and wrong is right mumbo jumbo-ing of language is something the Telco’s ...
By: Third Pipe
Net Neutrality Legislation Is Making Another Comeback
2008-05-15 14:56:00 A new bill, co-sponsored by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI),and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) would make ISPs who fail to provide service in a non-discriminatory manner subject to anti-trust violations. The legislation requires Internet service providers to connect with the facilities of other network providers on a reasonable and nondiscriminatory basis. It also requires them to operate ...
A Dumb Pipe What-If?
2008-05-15 01:00:00 We always keep saying here at ThirdPipe that dump pipe is the ‘thing’. We usually get slapped for it by our peers. Everyone thinks that content is critical. No doubt it is, because our second rule is nobody buys dumb pipe just for pipe. But there is a rational consideration for our position. We find ...
By: Third Pipe
700 MHz: Verizon begins the process of redefining ?open?
2008-05-05 21:28:00 Not to say we told you so, but we did. At the close of the 700MHz auction we predicted Verizon, the winner of the “open access” C block, wold begin to redefine what is meant by the word “open”. Immediately after the auction, certain members of Congress friendly to to the Verzion / AT&T ...
By: Third Pipe
Keeping the net free and open also applies to software
2008-05-03 03:59:00 There’s more to keeping the web free and open than encouraging fierce competition between access providers and equally impartial treatment of traffic. Free and open also extends to software technologies that enable and extend our use of the net. When it comes to software, we like free. Free insures quick adoption by those who have ...
By: Third Pipe
Sex For Net Neutrality
2008-04-25 21:24:00 Tania Derveaux, who previously made what was probably the best campaign promise ever to get votes as a candidate for Senate in Belgium, is now working for net neutrality. She is offering to make love to every virgin who backs net neutrality: I’m using sex in a positive way to spread awareness. The reason why only ...
By: Liberal Values
Get Laid if you support Net Neutrality (NSFW)
2008-04-25 19:25:00 Sometimes I think myself, these daily nerddom makes my mind burst! So to cool down may I present you Miss Tania Devereaux who wanna get laid by virgins (strictly virgins). Tanya Devereaux says that you could have sex with her provided you support a free web aka net neutrality. Before you jump over to the ...
Lawrence Lessig on net neutrality
2008-04-21 13:32:00 Imagine a world where the power company controlled which appliances you could plug into the outlet, or charged special fees for some appliances and not others. It's a clever analogy used by Lawrence Lessig to explain the importance of net neutrality. Imagine a world where your ISP had the power to charge you more to visit some websites over others, to decide which websites you can visit on their network, and charged some websites more than others for network access. Lawrence Lessig -- Stanford Professor and founder of the Center for Internet and Society, makes the case in a recent interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now. Lessig also talks about the phenomenal growth of Google -- originally an experiment by a group of graduate students at Standford looking for a better search engine. He says that if telecommunications companies had the ability to 'traffic shape' and 'data manage' when Google was started, the Google folks would have needed permission from the network ...
AmberMac on Net Neutrality
2008-04-18 00:26:00 I couldn’t say it better. Watch this video by the cute AmberMac. Copyright © 2008 MacBros' Place. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact macbros@boxbe.com so we can take legal action immediately.Plugin ...
By: MacBros' Place
Comcast titles new network micro management policy ?P2P Bill of Rights?
2008-04-17 04:35:00 This is comic relief at it’s best. The suits at Comcast have worked up a new clown suit to put around a new batch of network management policies that sound both ambiguous and theatening at the same time. “We’re going to formally create a DCIA working group and it will be open to any peer-to-peer ...
By: Third Pipe
Comcast to skip ?Net neutrality? hearing
2008-04-17 02:20:00 When Comcast Corp. Internet subscriber Robb Topolski was prevented from sharing digital files of Tin Pin Alley-era music with other barbershop quartet enthusiasts, the computer engineer launched a personal investigation.
You Can Float, But You Can?t Hide
2008-04-15 21:36:00 Remember this story that we covered about Middle East cable cuts? All 5 of them? Well it appears that there were 2 ships involved in the incidents. Dubai authorities have impounded two ships suspected of damaging undersea telecom cables in the Middle East earlier this year. One of the ships has reportedly been released ...
By: Third Pipe
New York intends to do away with the tax free net
2008-04-15 14:39:00 A state that will never be known fro low taxes or careful government spending may also be known for the state that killed the internet tax free zone. Most states require sales tax to be collected if the etailer has a physical presence in the state. As it is proposed, not in New York. If ...
By: Third Pipe
Virgin Media: ?Net Neutrality is a Load of Bollocks?
2008-04-14 15:07:00 Those of you who’ve been on the moon this past few months will have missed out on the debacle of a debate, “net neutrality” has become. Celebrated inventor of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee has been very vocal of late, calling for Internet Service Providers, (ISPs), to not implement a plan of speeding up the bandwidth ...
By: Noddegamra
Net Neutrality is ?A Load of Bollocks?
2008-04-14 12:08:00 According to Neil Berkett, the new CEO of Virgin Media, ?This net neutrality thing is a load of bollocks.? Mr Berkett followed this by stating that Virgin Media is already in negotiations with content providers (such as the BBC) to provide their media faster. For a fee, of course.Those companies that refuse this commercial blackmail will find the "Information Superhighway" becomes the "Information Bus Lane."Sometimes you wonder why CEOs are allowed to speak in public. The last time I saw this level of idiocy was from the then head of Ratners jewellery stores, Gerald Ratner. You may well be saying to yourself at this point, "Ratners? Who?"Back in the 1980s Ratners sold "value" jewellery from high-street stores and were very successful. In fact, they had over 2,000 stores across the UK, and were making huge profits. The business was seen as one of the UK's great success stories.That was until Gerald Ratner opened his mouth at an Institute of Directors (IoD) Conference in 1991.So suc...
Net Neutrality, Canada?s CRTC To Weigh In?
2008-04-09 22:36:00 The subject of Net Neutrality seems to be reaching a head here in Canada. And the driving force behind it, is not consumers, or ?think tanks? but rather ISP?s themselves. The internet is not a level playing field, but rather a type of grand MLM scheme. Most ISP?s in Canada are small fish serving from ...
Boy This Sounds Familiar! But of Course?.
2008-04-06 15:38:00 Mr. Malone of the WSJ lays out aspects of societal and business change that the US faces in say the next 50 years. He throws terms out like ‘fat pipe’, ‘process patents’, ‘free internet’, etc. Our loyal Thridpipe readers already know all this because we have this electronic pulpit on high. We have been ...
By: Third Pipe
Net neutrality in Canada under siege: Bell implements ?traffic shaping? ser
2008-03-31 15:02:00 Bell Canada - Canada's largest internet provider - is going ahead with its plan to undermine net neutrality. They call it ?traffic shaping? and ?traffic management?, but what it adds up to is the end of net neutrality for anyone on the Bell system. This includes Bell customers and non-Bell customers who contract with third party ISPs who use the Bell system. Bell and other Canadian ISPs such as Rogers have been ?traffic managing? for over a year, slowing some kinds of traffic down while privileging others. The data that Bell tends to target for slow down is peer-to-peer and torrent traffic. Last week, Bell applied the same ?traffic shaping? controls to its third party ISPs, service providers who use the Bell system but who are independent companies with their own clients. What this means is that Bell is screwing - not only with its own customers' data, but with the accounts of third party Internet users. Do you know whose system your ISP is using? April 7 is the date Bell...
Net Neutrality?s Quiet Crusader
2008-03-28 17:17:00 washingtonPost.com: Bearing video cameras, laptops and cellphones, a small army of young activists flooded into a recent federal meeting in protest. Members of public-interest group Free Press weren’t there to support a presidential candidate or decry global warming. The tech-savvy hundreds came to the Federal Communications Commission’s hearing at Harvard Law School last month to push ...
By: Thought-Blender
Net Neutrality ? Not in Bell Canada?s Vocabulary
2008-03-27 21:04:00 Much has been written about net neutrality, or rather the lack of, and it is clear that many backbone providers have been practicing Traffic Shaping, that?s the fancy word they use for the practice of throttling high bandwidth applications, most notably BitTorrent traffic. Bell Canada, is not the first large Canadian backbone provider to indulge themselves ...
Politicizing the Internet ? why net neutrality is not about free speech
2008-03-18 00:00:00 -By Scott Cleland Politicizing the Internet Fabricating a Free Speech Threat to Justify Regulating the Internet and An "Information Commons" American ISPs are facilitating an unprecedented explosion of free speech. More people use the Internet in the U.S. than any other country: ~211 million, per World Internet Stats. The number of blogs is exploding ...
By: Publius Forum
Clueless Big Label Music seeks protection money from ISP?s
2008-03-14 00:37:00 Before I get to the news item, I offer a short history lesson on the big music industry. The industry’s business model has always been about acquiring the rights to material cheaply and reselling the product eternally. They have never been interested in paying the typical artist anything. Sure there are exceptions, usually the most ...
By: Third Pipe
OK Go says Net Neutrality good for music
2008-03-13 16:57:00 Tim Karr has an important read for music lovers up at HuffPo. In it, he covers OK Go’s descent into Washington to promote the importance of Net Neutrality to independent musicians. The band’s success is a testament to an open Internet. OK Go was propelled to national fame via the popularity of their YouTube videos. One, a treadmill dance along to the song “Here It Goes Again,” has been viewed more than 31 million times. “If people wonder whether the music industry will benefit from Net Neutrality they can look no further than us,” said OK Go’s lead singer and guitarist Damian Kulash in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. “There really is some consensus here that Net Neutrality is good for music and good for musicians… I’m here to ask you today to preserve Net Neutrality and the openness of the Internet. I believe it’s critical to the future of music.” These days, when it seems like the dec...
Conyers May Propose Net Neutrality Legislation
2008-03-12 02:54:00 At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Committee Chair Rep. John Conyers said that net neutrality must be preserved, and stated that he is willing to propose legislation to do so. ?I am concerned that if Congress stands by and does nothing, we will soon find ourselves living in a world where those who pay, can play (on the Internet), but those who don't are simply out of luck,? Conyers said.
Why Is Kevin Martin's Opinion On Net Neutrality Different When It's Comcast
2008-03-10 10:08:00 Why Is Kevin Martin's Opinion On Net Neutrality Different When It's Comcast Than AT&T? from the just-wondering dept FCC chair Kevin Martin is well-known as a good friend to telco companies -- but that friendship has never extended to cable companies. That's why it's rather amusing to see him try to act tough against Comcast, suggesting last Friday that the FCC doesn't look kindly on Comcast's traffic shaping practices while just a year ago, he was telling AT&T that the FCC wouldn't stop them fro
By: mini wisdom
ThirdPipe of a Military Kind
2008-03-04 18:10:00 Just watch it – Granted it is a pitch by Lockheed for a new UAV multi role vehicle. But if you step back, the very telecommunications technology that makes this possible is ThirdPipe in nature. High bandwidth, wireless, satellite supported, GPS enabled with the intelligence forward placed in the end node (the plane…). I am not ...
By: Third Pipe
Comcast Paid People to Fill Seats at Net Neutrality Meeting
2008-02-27 06:22:00 portfolio.com: Comcast spokeswoman Jennifer Khoury said that the company paid some people to arrive early and hold places in the queue for local Comcast employees who wanted to attend the hearing. Some of those placeholders, however, did more than wait in line: They filled many of the seats at the meeting, according to eyewitnesses. As a result, scores of Comcast critics and other members of the public were denied entry because the room filled up well before the beginning of the hearing. | read more | T|B Opinion: Absolutely unacceptable. This bullshit stunt was staged for the sole reason of keeping Comcast critics out of the meeting - - a public hearing at a college! No doubt, Comcast will spare no expense in its crusade to control the Internet. These greedy fuckers must be stopped - - If you don’t know about the fight for net neutrality, educate yourself and let your voice be heard. similar articles:FCC Questions Comcast about Interference with File SharingBush Urges Cong...
By: Thought-Blender
Ed Markey?s ?net neutrality? bill is a thinly disguised duopoly ploy
2008-02-26 19:02:00 It’s time to take off the gloves and deal with the meddling politicians who want to “help” us with “net neutrality”. What they really want is the power to micro manage the internet, preserve the status quo and ration bandwidth. They long for the sound of pleading taxpayers begging “may I ...
By: Third Pipe
Another voice: the FCC needs to change
2008-02-25 18:29:00 If you are a regular reader, you’ve seen a number of rants from all parties here on Third Pipe demanding change at the FCC. We’re skeptical of “net neutrality” legislation that keeps resurfacing in Congress because it always extends the reach of the feds who are part of the problem rather than part of ...
By: Third Pipe
Net Neutrality Bill: No Web Traffic Discrimination
2008-02-13 21:41:00 newsWeek.com: A Democratic lawmaker on Wednesday proposed legislation to stop network providers from playing traffic cop on the Internet. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on telecommunications and the Internet, introduced the bill to promote the principle, known as “Net neutrality,” of treating all Internet traffic equally. Markey, who introduced ...
By: Thought-Blender
New Net neutrality bill frowns on ISP ‘favoritism’
2008-02-13 16:41:00 Comcast, AT&T, and other network operators would be expected to refrain from "unreasonable discriminatory favoritism" of content on their pipes under a recrafted Net neutrality proposal introduced Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Edward Markey (Credit: U.S. House of Representatives) But this time around, the new bill (PDF) sponsored by Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of a House Internet and telecommunications panel, isn't directly forcing Internet service providers to follow specific rules. The new bill is an apparent effort to be less prescriptive than his previous efforts, which failed in a Republican-dominated Congress two years ago. "The bill contains no requirements for regulations on the Internet whatsoever," Markey said in a statement upon introducing the bill. "It does, however, suggest that the principles which have guided the Internet's development and expansion are highly worthy of retention, and it seeks to enshrine such principl...
Comcast squares off against supporters of "Net Neutrality"
2008-02-13 04:59:00 Comcast squares off against supporters of "Net Neutrality"Under fire from consumer groups and law professors who have issued formal complaints to the Federal Communications Commission, Comcast has told the FCC that hampering some file-sharing b...
Net neutrality bill expected this week
2008-02-13 03:00:00 Net neutrality bill expected this weekA Democratic plan to give the FCC new Net neutrality authority over the Internet was rejected two years ago. Now it's back. http://w-ww.news.com/8301-13578_3-987087-1-38.html?part=rss&subj=new-s&tag=2547-1_...
Democratic Net neutrality bill expected this week
2008-02-13 02:40:00 Democratic Net neutrality bill expected this weekA Democratic plan to give the Federal Communications Commission new Net neutrality authority over the Internet was rejected two years ago. Now it's back. http://w-ww.news.com/8301-13578_3-98708.-..
The Music Industry Vs Net Neutrality
2008-01-31 21:57:00 U2, the world famous rock band, wants to turn all ISPs in to copyright police and have them stop all that darned piracy! Paul McGuinness, the gentleman on the right in the picture, has been the manager of U2 since it’s inception. In other words, the man helped craft one of the biggest acts ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Music Industry Vs Net Neutrality", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/-01/31/the-music-industry-vs-net--neutrality/" });
By: SeanPAune.com
Net Neutrality - You'll Be Sorry
2008-01-23 17:31:00 What is Net Neutrality?There is probably no bigger issue, that you know less about, than Net Neutrality. Unfortunately, by the time you realize what a huge impact it has on your life, it will likely be too late. Net Neutrality refers to the idea that you should be allowed to access any portion of the Internet you like. Internet heavyweights like AT&T, Comcast and Cox cable, however, want to break the Internet up, pare it down and charge you extra to access its different parts. Kind of like cable TV. You want HBO? another $230 every year. NFL Sunday Ticket? Another $250 annually. Even worse, if Net Neutrality fails, most of the websites on the Internet, no having an Internet Service Provider (ISP) pimping them, will simply wither on the vine and die. Your ISP, not you, will be in control of what websites you can visit.Why Should I Care?Want to watch YouTube? Sorry, that competes with Hulu, you either have to watch the approved shows on Hulu, or pay a separate access fee to ...
By: Blawg IT
Internet freedom means net neutrality, not ?pay-as-you-go? broadband
2008-01-21 18:00:00 Last week the news broke (via a leaked memo found by Broadband Reports) that Time Warner Cable was instituting a “tiered pricing” structure for broadband, where heavy bandwith users would have to pay more, rather than the customary “all you can eat” model of supposedly unlimited usage for a flat price. My article covers the issue in more detail, but the gist is that while tiered pricing structures are better than being kicked off your service for violating invisible bandwith caps, it’s still no substitute for building out new networks with more capacity. This leads me to the excellent paper authored by Sascha Meinrath on how the concept of net neutrality needs to be incorporated and expanded into a larger vision of Internet freedom. Meinrath’s paper (available as a free download, and which I found via the indispensable Natasha Chart) studies the landscape of America’s decrepit and costly broadband offerings in exhaustive detail. He hits al...
Net Neutrality Blocks Innovation
2008-01-18 00:00:00 -By Scott Cleland Why net neutrality would block cloud computing innovation; computers must prioritize/schedule apps It's becoming increasingly obvious that net neutrality proponents have not thought through the logical and practical implications of their call for mandating net neutrality. Practically, net neutrality is about codifying Internet architecture design rules for the first ...
By: Publius Forum
Comcast Under the FCC ?Scope
2008-01-10 00:03:00 Remember the BitTorret fiasco that Comcast generated a couple of months ago? Well now the FCC is looking into the matter. Which probably means that a small coalition of CongressCritters had drafted a memo. – A coalition of consumer groups and legal scholars asked the agency in November to stop Comcast from discriminating against certain types ...
By: Third Pipe
?Net Neutrality? law pork-posal returns to the US Congress in January
2007-12-19 21:22:00 Quoting Frank Zappa: America is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced. While the concept of Net Neutrality is noble, it is flawed. It assumes the only path to connectivity is a duopoly that is to be micro managed by a nanny care government. The problem with regulation is it choses winners, losers, and ...
By: Third Pipe
T-Mobile nega di bloccare Twitter, è colpa di un bug:?Twitter users are wel
2007-12-18 23:59:00 Tre giorni fa, rabbia e polemiche: T-Mobile blocca Twitter. Si rivoltano i clienti dell’operatore telefonico, la rete si riempie di articoli e testimonianze, Biz Stone (co-fondatore di Twitter) dichiara:”T-Mobile has definitely turned us off without notification“, si denuncia la violazione della Net Neutrality….. Leggi l'articolo completo
By: Voipblog.it
T-Mobile blocca Twitter e scoppia la polemica tra proteste e ragioni
2007-12-15 12:19:00 Clima incandescente, a dispetto della stagione invernale, tra T-Mobile e i suoi clienti twitteriani. Da qualche giorno è stato infatti inibito il servizio di accesso al network sociale (mediante SMS al 40404) per tutti i clienti della compagnia telefonica. Immediate le telefonate con richieste di spiegazioni e proteste che hanno sommerso il Customer Service della ...
By: Voipblog.it
TechCrunch's Arrington Interviews Barack Obama On Tech Issues
2007-11-26 23:41:00 A great interview which shows the Senator's command of key Internet issues facing us. Q&A With Senator Barack ObamaNet NeutralityMichael Arrington: What is your position on net neutrality? Specifically, should tiered pricing be allowed by the access providers?Senator Barack Obama: As I stated during my visit to Google on November 14, I will take a backseat to no one in my commitment to network neutrality. The Internet is the most open network in history. We have to keep it that way. I will prevent network providers from discriminating in ways that limit the freedom of expression on the Internet. Because most Americans only have a choice of only one or two broadband carriers, carriers are tempted to impose a toll charge on content and services, discriminating against websites that are unwilling to pay for equal treatment. This could create a two-tier Internet in which websites with the best relationships with network providers can get the fastest access to consumers, while all ...
Right Premise, Wrong Reason
2007-11-22 16:15:00 Public Knowledge a fellow traveler in things telecom published this piece. However though the outcome should be as suggested, the implied remedy — more regulation — is not. Customers do expect that their broadband connection should be as reliable and unfettered as their water, sewer, etc. ThirdPipe agrees with that as well. But our divergence ...
By: Third Pipe
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