[Cybertel-Ann] 4.8.8 :: Cone of Silence Lifts :: Roommates.com is not a "Good Samaritan" :: Quashing Skype Carterphone Petition :: Stanford :: Freaking Over Metatags :: No Clue on Gambling ::

Tue Apr 8 17:06:51 PDT 2008

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Verizon Expands 7Mbps DSL Coverage - Now available to
1.6 million homes
, dslreports
For Verizon users who can't get FiOS, the phone
company is slowly expanding coverage of their 7Mbps
DSL tier. Last February, the telco announced the
service was now available to some 1.2 million users,
and today is stating that they're expanding coverage
into 12 additional Texas and 14 additional Indiana
communities. With the new announcements, Verizon says
they've hit 1.6 million homes with the new tier. While
Verizon doesn't offer a complete list of cities where
the service is available, you can of course hit up
their prequal tool. The 7.1Mbps/768kbps tier costs $40
if bundled with local phone service and the user signs
a one-year contract.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Expands-7Mbps-DSL-Coverage-93393
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/dsl.htm

St. Charles, Illinois citywide Wi-Fi launch set for
June 2008, Muni
The city of St. Charles, Illinois will have a muni
wireless network in place by the end of June 2008 if
all goes as planned. Some areas will already have
Wi-Fi by the end of May. St. Charles is not
contributing any money into the project. MeshLinx, the
service provider that owns the network, will pay the
city for the right to place wireless nodes on the
electric poles. MeshLinx is expected to “unwire”
neighboring city, Geneva, as well.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/265117026/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/muni.htm

700-MHz spectrum winners detail plans, CW
Verizon and AT&T will both use the spectrum for
high-speed, 4G wireless services, and Qualcomm will
use its added spectrum to expand its FLO TV service.
http://feeds.computerworld.com/~r/Computerworld/News/~3/264178155/article.do
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/w700.htm

Cone of silence (finally) lifts on the spectrum
auction, Google
For three weeks at the end of January and early
February, a small team of us holed up in double super
secret "war rooms" in Mountain View, CA and
Washington, D.C. to bid on Google's behalf in the FCC
spectrum auction. Bidding took place electronically,
and literally billions of dollars were at stake with
every mouse click. And because of the FCC's strict
anti-collusion rules, we couldn't tell a soul what was
going on behind closed doors.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GooglePublicPolicyBlog/~3/263592274/cone-of-silence-finally-lifts-on.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/w700.htm

Big ISPs back plan to wire low-income Americans, CNET
AT&T, Verizon, the cable industry, and others team up
with state and local governments and a nonprofit group
with goal of bringing broadband to 500,000 more homes
by 2010.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9914063-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm

Roommates.com Denied 230 Immunity by Ninth Circuit En
Banc, Tech & Marketing Law
The Ninth Circuit en banc panel in the Roommates.com
case upheld the 3 judge panel...
http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2008/04/roommatescom_de.htm
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/samaritan.htm

Ninth Circuit: Roommates.com largely unprotected by
Section 230, Online Liability
Earlier today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit, in Fair Housing Council of San Fernando
Valley, et al v. Roommate.com, LLC, issued an en banc
ruling that rejects the majority of the website’s
assertions of Section 230 immunity. For purposes of
this (lengthy) post, I will assume you are familiar
[...]
http://onlineliabilityblog.com/2008/04/03/ninth-circuit-roommatescom-largely-unprotected-by-section-230/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/samaritan.htm

How the Roommates.com decision is good for Section
230, Internet Cases
Earlier today the Ninth Circuit, en banc, issued its
opinion in the case of Fair Housing Council of San
Fernando Valley, et al v. Roommate.com, LLC. It is a
long and detailed opinion, authored by Judge Kozinski,
and as characterized by my friend Michael Erdman,
leaves Roommates.com largely unprotected by immunity
under 47 U.S.C. 230. To learn everything you need to
know about the majority opinion without actually
reading the case, read Michael’s post here. There’s no
need for me to duplicate efforts in summarizing the
case, as there’s little I could add in that regard.
http://blog.internetcases.com/2008/04/03/how-the-roommatescom-decision-is-good-for-section-230/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/samaritan.htm

CTIA: FCC chair vows to quash Skype open-access
petition, CW
Kevin Martin points to recent moves by carriers to
open up their networks and says the government
shouldn't intervene.
http://feeds.computerworld.com/~r/Computerworld/News/~3/266434962/article.do
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/cpe.htm

FCC ANNOUNCES FURTHER DETAILS OF SECOND PUBLIC EN BANC
HEARING ON BROADBAND NETWORK MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AT
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA., FCC
News Release. News Media Contact: Robert Kenny at
(202) 418-2668 or Clyde Ensslin at (202) 418-0506  OCH
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-281298A1.doc
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

FCC Second Public En Banc Hearing on Broadband Network
Management Practices, PK
The Commission will hear from expert panelists
regarding broadband network management practices and
Internet-related issues. The hearing at Stanford
Universityis open to the public, and seating will be
available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Additional details on this hearing will be
forthcoming.
http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/265782595/1502
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

What Comcast/Bittorrent Actually Means: Bittorrent
Selling Hardware, Techdirt
Comcast's decision to collaborate with Bittorrent,
Inc. attracted a predictably huge amount of attention
and analysis. But surprisingly little of it has
actually speculated as to what Bittorrent, Inc. is
actually going to do for Comcast. When guesses have
been ventured, they've frequently suggested that the
company will throw its weight around in order to alter
the protocol and make it more friendly to Comcast's
network. But this is unlikely for exactly the reasons
Prof. Felten discusses at that link (though Felten
actually argues that altering the protocol is the
goal). Instead, I think there are reasons to believe
that Bram Cohen's startup will be selling network
appliances to Comcast.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080331/185542711.shtml
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

Web Crime Spikes in 2007, Losses Near $240M, Ecommerce
Times
The financial losses tied to Internet crime reached
record levels in 2007, the FBI said Thursday, citing
data from its annual Internet Crime Report. The
Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3 -- which the
FBI operates along with the nonprofit National White
Collar Crime Center -- fielded 206,884 complaints of
crimes perpetrated over the Internet during 2007, the
bureau said. Of those, about 90,000 were referred to
law enforcement agencies for follow-up, and the dollar
value of those cases is estimated at around $240
million in losses.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/62462.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/

2007 Internet Crime Complaint Center Annual Report,
IC3
According to the 2007 Internet Crime Report, the
Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received 206,884
complaints of crimes perpetrated over the Internet
during 2007. Of the complaints received, more than
90,000 were referred to law enforcement around the
nation, amounting to nearly $240 million in reported
losses. This represents a $40 million increase in
reported losses from complaints referred to law
enforcement in 2006. All complaints received by IC3
are accessible to federal, state, and local law
enforcement to support active investigations, trend
analysis, and public outreach and awareness efforts.
http://www.ic3.gov/media/annualreport/2007_IC3Report.pdf
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/

U.S. Carriers Quietly Developing IPv6 Services,
CircleID
They haven't released many details yet, but U.S.
carriers say they are developing commercial services
that will take advantage of IPv6, a long-anticipated
upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol
known as IPv4. Many of the new services are due out in
the next year, carriers say...
http://www.circleid.com/posts/us_carriers_quietly_ipv6_services/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm

Are Domain Name Registrars Ready for IPv6?, CircleID
Now that ICANN has added IPv6 name servers for the
root zone, and that many registries have enabled IPv6
on their DNS servers, I thought it would have been
easy to update the DNS records pointing to my domain
to mention a IPv6-only DNS server. This way, we could
have native name resolution end-to-end in IPv6. We are
not there yet, it seems
http://www.circleid.com/posts/84410_domain_registrars_ipv6/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm

11th Circuit Freaks Out About Metatags--North American
Medical v. Axiom, Tech & Marketing Law
North American Medical Corp. v. Axiom Worldwide, Inc.,
2008 WL 918411 (11th Cir. April 7, 2008) Oh...
http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2008/04/11th_circuit_fr.htm
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/advertising.htm

Feds Admit They Have No Clue How To Enforce
Anti-Online Gambling Legislation, Techdirt
In the fall of 2006, Congress (for reasons that have
never been explained) put a clause banning online
gambling into a bill supposedly about protecting our
ports (so no one would vote against it). Since then
there's been an ongoing legal effort to get that part
of the law overturned. It's particularly upset
financial institutions who are told they need to stop
gambling operations from accepting money -- though,
they're not quite sure how to do that. To top it all
off, even the federal officials who are charged with
enforcing this law are now admitting that they have
absolutely no clue how to enforce it, noting that the
legislation itself is incredibly broad and unclear. In
other
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080402/190212731.shtml
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/gambling.htm

Comcast Suffers Through Major Weekend Outage - Gives
Silicon Valley blogger a call, dslreports
As users in our Comcast forum can attest, the cable
giant suffered through a significant 7-hour outage on
Saturday, which took customers offline in a number of
States, including New York, Pennsylvania, and
Delaware. Comcast has yet to identify a cause of the
outage, but says they're investigating. While you were
struggling to get a hold of Comcast, Comcast was
actually reaching out to help Silicon Valley startup
promoter Mike Arrington, who was called by the cable
giant after he complained about his own, California
outage on Twitter:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Suffers-Through-Major-Weekend-Outage-93372
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/comcast.htm

China censorship workarounds: 'To post or not to
post?', CNET
This blog is often faced with the question of whether
to post methods to access various sites which are
inaccessible from China because of government
controls. I want to turn the question to readers, who
I hope will have some opinions.
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13908_1-9912536-59.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/china.htm

China - China urged to go beyond charm offensive and
unblock thousands of websites - 5.04.2008, Reporters
Without Boarders
Since 1st April, the English versions of Wikipedia,
YouTube and Blogspot have been made accessible again.
Reporters Without Borders today called on the Chinese
authorities to step up unblocking of websites ahead of
the Beijing Olympics, instead of merely going for a
charm offensive intended to mollify international
opinion.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=26467
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/china.htm

U.S. reveals plans to hit back at cyberthreats, CNET
The U.S. Air Force Cyber Command is just as interested
in attack as defense, according to a senior general.
http://www.news.com/U.S.-reveals-plans-to-hit-back-at-cyberthreats/2100-1029_3-6236649.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/cyberwar.htm

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