[Cybertel-Ann] 12.11 :: Martin's Loopholes :: FCC Wins No Decision :: Tea Leaves :: Injecting Content :: Save the SMS :: Feeling DNSSEC :: AllAdvantage :: Kill TV ::

Tue Dec 11 11:22:51 PST 2007

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I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every
morning--knowing well that I shall find in it the
usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies and
cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to
put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation
of the human race. I cannot seem to get my prayers
answered, yet I do not despair.
- Mark Twain, Letter to W. D. Howells, 4/2/1899

Congress Looks To Close Kevin Martin's Loophole For
Regulating Cable, Techdirt, 12/11/2007 
Last month we noted how amusing it was that supposedly
"anti-regulation" FCC chair Kevin Martin suddenly
turned "pro-regulation" when it came to cable
companies -- the arch enemies of Martin's buddies in
the telcos.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20071209/220921.shtml
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/cable.htm

Court Allows Verizon Deregulation to Stand - No
decision by the FCC turns out to be a decision,
DSLreports, 12/11/2007 
In 2006, Verizon petitioned the FCC to waive certain
broadband regulations that it said were no longer
necessary .
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Court-Allows-Verizon-Deregulation-to-Stand-90067
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/forbearance.htm

700 MHz PreGame Show: Reading the Tea Leaves on
Verizon and AT&T's Last Moves, Tales from the Sausage
Factory, 12/11/2007 
Well the short forms are in, and a surprising number
of companies are keeping mum about whether they even
filed or not. But a few more interesting tidbits have
turned up — notably that Echostar will come to the
ball without its dance partne...
http://www.wetmachine.com/item/958
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/w700.htm

Goodale on CDA 230 and Anonymous Speech Online,
Citizen Media Law Project, 12/11/2007 
James Goodale, the former vice chairman of the New
York Times, published an article on Friday in the New
York Law Journal (registration required) on CDA 230
and the highly publicized Doe v. Ciolli case.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CitizenMediaLawProject/~3/198295420/goodale-cda-230-and-anonymous-speech-online
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/samaritan.htm

ISPs Injecting Their Content Into Websites - Rogers
tests new cap warning system, raises neutrality
alarms
, DSLreports, 12/11/2007 
Over the weekend, blogger Lauren Weinstein discovered
that Canadian cable operator Rogers Communications has
started using a new technology that allows them to
inject content into any website a subscriber visits.
Rogers is using deep packet inspection and injected
Javascript (see code) developed by Perftech. In this
case, the warning alerts Rogers customers that they're
about to breach their monthly caps.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ISPs-Injecting-Their-Content-Into-Websites-90134
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Groups Tell FCC To Protect Text Messaging from
Telephone Company Abuse, PK, 12/11/2007 
Eight public interest groups, led by Public Knowledge,
today told the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
that telephone companies should not have the legal
ability to interfere with text messages.
http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/198610006/1301
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Groups to Press FCC To Prohibit Blocking Of Text
Messages, Wash Post, 12/11/2007 
A consortium of consumer groups is planning to urge
federal regulators to clarify how much control
cellphone companies can have over the messages and
services delivered over their networks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/10/AR2007121001634.html?nav=rss_technology
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

What to Do With Heavy Internet Users?, TeleFrieden,
12/11/2007 
No description
http://telefrieden.blogspot.com/2007/12/what-to-do-with-heavy-internet-users.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Net Neutrality, Comcast & the FCC: A Closer Look,
Future of Music, 12/11/2007 
It's been almost two months since Comcast's regulation
of BitTorrent traffic was first revealed by the
Associated Press, inciting an Internet-wide call to
arms for proponents of network neutrality. In case you
haven't been following the story, it was revealed that
Comcast was "actively interfering" with traffic on its
network, using a technique known as packet-forging to
disrupt traffic relating to BitTorrent applications
http://futureofmusiccoalition.blogspot.com/2007/12/net-neutrality-comcast-fcc-closer-look.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Network Neutrality and the FCCs Internet Policy
Statement: Biased Thoughts from a Lawyer Working with
SavetheInternet.co, Berkman, 12/11/2007 
Today, the Berkman Center's luncheon guest was Marvin
Ammori, the General Counsel of media reform
organization Free Press. Marvin talked about "Network
Neutrality and the FCCs Internet Policy Statement:
Biased Thoughts from a Lawyer Working with
SavetheInternet.com & Free Press."
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=3077
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

The Year IPv6 Made it to Major League, CircleID,
12/11/2007 
May 6th 2007: ARIN board of trustees passes a
resolution advising the Internet community that
migration to a new version of the internet protocol,
IPv6, will be necessary to allow continued growth of
the internet. June 29th 2007, Puerto Rico: ICANN Board
resolution states
http://www.circleid.com/posts/71269_year_ipv6_made_major_league/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm

DNSSEC: Once More, With Feeling!, CircleID, 12/11/2007

After looking at the state of DNSSEC in some detail a
little over a year ago in 2006, I've been intending to
come back to DNSSEC to see if anything has changed,
for better or worse, in the intervening period... To
recap, DNSSEC is an approach to adding some "security"
into the DNS. The
http://www.circleid.com/posts/dnssec_once_more_with_feeling/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/security.htm

New AllAdvantage Meets Same Fate As Old AllAdvantage,
Techdirt, 12/11/2007 
We've said before that bribing users to watch ads
isn't a good strategy.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20071210/095743.shtml
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/advertising.htm

NFL’s broadband telecast a mirage, Chi Tribune,
12/11/2007 
What was more frustrating for football fans last
night: the inability to watch a nationally televised
game between the Cowboys and Packers, or watching the
National Football League’s incomplete NFL.com "live"
presentation of the game?
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/eric2_0/2007/11/nfls-broadband.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/

NFL.com/LIVE Offers NFL Net Games Online, Online Video
Watch, 12/11/2007 
The NFL wised up on Thursday night, offering the
Packers Cowboys game on NFL Network live to fans. The
league announced last night that live online coverage
will be offered for all NFL network games this season.
http://www.onlinevideowatch.com/tag/nfl-network-live-streaming/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/

Will Internet Kill TV, IIA, 12/11/2007 
Not in the near future, but an article by Tanya Irwin
in today's MediaPost points to a signficant increase
in video downloading from 2006.  A study recently
released by Horowitz and Associates, Broadband Content
and Services 2007, indicates that in 2006 45% of
Internet users were downloading video on a weekly
basis and that in 2007 that number has increased to
61%.
http://blog.internetinnovation.org/2007/12/will-internet-kill-the-televis/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/

Would A Customized Newspaper Save The Industry?,
Techdirt, 12/11/2007 
Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to take a
"plant tour" at the Wall Street Journal's Palo Alto
printing plant. It really was fascinating to learn how
the paper is printed. There is a lot of technology
involved -- though, much of it is rather old
http://techdirt.com/articles/20071206/200116.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/

DNS attack could signal Phishing 2.0, CW, 12/11/2007 
Researchers at Google and Georgia Tech are warning
that a new generation of DNS attacks could make
phishing much harder to detect.
http://feeds.computerworld.com/~r/Computerworld/News/~3/198571891/article.do
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/phish.htm

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