[Cybertel-Ann] 1.24.8 :: ICANN Fights Imperialist Powers :: ACLU on Free Neutrality :: The Kids are Alright :: Not Gray, Think Meucci :: If We Dont Give Them Immunity for Illegally Spying, They Might Not Illegally Spy in the Future!! ::

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is
surprised when others believe him.
Charles DeGaulle

Broadband Policy, IIA
Earlier today I attended a briefing by Dr. Rob
Atkinson on the release of his report, "Framing a
National  Broadband Policy."   He began by providing a
brief overview of the report and then allowing Blair
Levin, former Chief of Staff to FCC Chairman Reed
Hundt & one of our Chairmen, Larry Irving to add their
comments to the dialogue.
http://blog.internetinnovation.org/2008/01/broadband-policy/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

Gigi on Telecom on C-Span and NPR, PK
First up, she was on C-Spanâ€™s The Communicators,
chatting about net neutrality, broadband, wireless,
and the 700Mhz auction. You can watch the video
embedded below:
http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/222491826/1364
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

GAO-08-406R, Federal Communications Commission:
Exclusive Service Contracts for Provision of Video
Services in Multiple Dwelling Units and Other Real
Estate Developments, January 18, 2008, GAO
GAO reviewed the Federal Communication Commission's
(FCC) new rule on exclusive service contracts for
provision of video services in multiple dwelling units
and other real estate developments. GAO found that (1)
the final rule prohibits the enforcement of existing
exclusivity clauses and the execution of new
exclusivity clauses in contracts between cable
operators that provide video programming service and
certain residential units,
http://www.gao.gov/decisions/majrule/d08406r.htm?source=ra
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/cable.htm

ILSR advocates mixed fiber/wireless networks, Muni
The blush left the bloom of private-public
partnerships when EarthLink retreated from the muni
market and other private providers began demanding
increased financial commitments from their city
partners. So itâ€™s timely that the Institure of Local
Self Reliance (ILSR) has issued a new report,
Municipal Broadband: Demystifying Wireless and
Fiber-Optic Options,  that focuses on the merits of
city-sponsored initiatives and strategies for
deploying multi-purpose, multiple architecture
broadband networks.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/222547007/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/muni.htm

700 MHz auction time, PK
There was a mock auction today just to test the
equipment for submitting bids. The real thing is on
Thursday beginning at 10am.
http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/221733153/1361
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/w700.htm

FCC Spectrum Bidding Underway, Internet News
With Internet companies battling cable companies
battling telcos, the highly anticipated spectrum
auction kicked off today.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/222586007/3723776
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/w700.htm

Sprint WiMAX premieres in three cities, Muni
The New York Times reports a soft launch of Sprintâ€™s
WiMAX services is underway in Chicago, Baltimore and
Washington, D.C. in preparation for a much larger
launch later in the year.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/222463915/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wimax.htm

FCC Not Ready to Pry Open Wireless Networks, Consumer
Affairs
But agency warns carriers its plans could change.
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/01/fcc_open.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/cpe.htm

2008: The Battle For ISP Piracy Filters - AT&T is up
for it...which ISP is next?, dslreports
After spending considerably effort putting legal
pressure on Universities to stop file trading, expect
the RIAA and MPAA this year to put their attention
squarely on ISPs. The entertainment industry has
ratcheted up pressure for ISPs to begin filtering
pirated content, and NBC Universal would love to see
filters placed within home broadband hardware. Most
ISPs, with the exception of AT&T, aren't eager to
become cyber-piracy nannies.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/2008-The-Battle-For-ISP-Piracy-Filters-91261
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Free Speech and Net Neutrality: Separating Fact from
Fiction, ACLU
The debate surrounding net neutrality raises several
free speech questions. Is net neutrality really the
"First Amendment of the Internet," as some of its
supporters maintain? Are internet service providers
(ISPs) right when they argue that any regulation
promotes unconstitutional government censorship? Who
are the online "speakers" whose speech is protected by
the First Amendment? Is it online subscribers? ISPs?
Both? Neither? The answers are really much more
straightforward than they might appear.
http://blog.aclu.org/index.php?/archives/464-Free-Speech-and-Net-Neutrality-Separating-Fact-from-Fiction.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Personal name must have trademark significance for
protection under ACPA, Internet Cases
Defendant Meadows thought that Plaintiff Salle owed
him about $9,500.  He was apparently having some
trouble getting paid, so he registered the
plaintiffâ€™s personal name as a domain name â€“
briansalle.com.  He then tried to sell it to Salle for
the amount of the purported debt.  Being uninterested
in the purchase, Salle filed a cybersquatting
complaint against Meadows in federal court.
http://blog.internetcases.com/2008/01/23/personal-name-must-have-trademark-significance-for-protection-under-acpa/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/acpa.htm

ICANN Has Submitted Plea to be Freed from U.S.
Government Control, CircleID
ICANN has asked the US government to be freed from
official control. The plea was made in a lengthy
report [PDF] sent to the US Department of Commerce.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/812410_icann_plea_for_independence/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm

Oxford Internet Institute to Hold Forum on History and
Future of DNS, CircleID
This open public forum, "What's in a name? The History
and Future of the Domain Name System," is organized by
the Oxford Internet Institute and will be held at The
Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, on
Monday 28 January 2008, from 4-6pm (UTC). The forum
will look at the history and future of the Internet
Domain Name System (DNS). It will provide an
opportunity to commemorate Jon Postel by looking back
at the 25 year history of the DNS but also the 10
years of its management under ICANN; and a vision of
what the future holds over the coming years. The panel
of speakers include...
http://www.circleid.com/posts/812411_oxford_internet_history_future_dns/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm

Europe: Your I.P. Address Is Personal, NYT
At a hearing Monday, a top European regulator said
that Internet Protocol addresses should be treated as
personal information, something Google and other sites
have resisted.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/europe-your-ip-address-is-personal/index.html?ex=1358917200&en=15f3bf089fd3c3fd&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ip.htm

NTIA Public Meeting on ICANN Review, NTIA
Federal Register: NTIA will hold a public meeting on
February 28, 2008, to discuss the mid-term review of
the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) between the
Department and the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN). The meeting will be held on
February 28, 2008, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.,
Eastern Standard Time. Registration will start at 8:30
a.m.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/frnotices/2008/ICANN_meeting_080228.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ntia.htm

AT&T offers free Wi-Fi and superfast broadband, CNET
The company announces free Wi-Fi for its broadband
customers and adds a new 10Mbps tier of service.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9856701-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att.htm

Telco Giant Almost Doubles Revenues in Q4, eweek
AT T reports that profit and revenue are up after
better-than-expected wireless growth.
http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~r/RSS/tech/~3/222304811/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att.htm

FiOS Might Not Hit NYC Until Summer - Secret city
negotiations continueâ€¦, dslreports
New York City and Verizon continue closed-door
negotiations over awarding the company a city-wide
agreement to deploy FiOS, a deal potentially worth
billions. City council members and consumer advocates
are worried that the secrecy means that the deal will
be great for city pockets and Verizon, but not
consumers. Industry analyst Dave Burstein notes that
it takes a twelve-week FOIA request to get any useful
information on the ongoing negotiations.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FiOS-Might-Not-Hit-NYC-Until-Summer-91243
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/verizon.htm

Afghan sentenced to death after sharing Web printouts,
CNET
Twenty-three-year-old jailed for downloading and
distributing articles insulting Islam, according to
reports. Free-press groups urge president to
intervene.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9856107-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/me.htm

New Arabic Holocaust Web Site Aims to Illuminate
Truth, Ecommerce Times
Israel's Holocaust memorial launched an Arabic version
of its Web site Thursday, including vivid photos of
Nazi atrocities and video of survivors' testimony, to
combat Holocaust denial in the Arab and Muslim world.
Among those featured on the Yad Vashem site is Dina
Beitler, a survivor of the Nazi genocide that killed 6
million Jews in World War II. Beitler, who was shot
and left for dead in a pit of bodies in 1941, recalls
her story on the site, with Arabic subtitles.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/61358.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/me.htm

Roundtable on Copyright Damages Takes Place Tomorrow,
PK
As Sherwin wrote about last month, most of the
attention at the December 13 hearing on H.R. 4279, the
so-called â€œPRO-IP Act of 2007â€ was focused on one
small provision, Section 104, which would have the
effect of allowing a court to multiply â€œstatutoryâ€
copyright damages for infringing a compilation by the
number of individual works in the compilation. For
example, if I infringed a Rolling Stonesâ€™ CD, I
could be liable for damages of up to $150,000 times
the number of tracks on the CD. Right now, under
Section 504(c)(1) of the Copyright Act, such an
infringement would only be entitled to one damage
award.
http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/222538505/1365
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm

MPAA Suffers â€œIntelligence Failureâ€ On Piracy, No
Weapons of Mass File Sharing On Colâ€¦, Tales from the
Sausage Factory
â€œWe have also learned that college students have
used university networks to download 40% of all
pirated movies, while eating yellow cake (aka
â€Twinkiesâ€œ).â€ -- Dan Glickman, CEO of the Motion
Picture Association of Ameri..
http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1013
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/p2p.htm

Public Knowledge Says Data â€˜Errorâ€™ Calls Hollywood
Agenda Into Question, PK
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
admitted that the figures it had been using to track
â€œpiracyâ€ on college campuses were triple the
actual figure. The LEK study purports to calculate a
$6.1 billion loss for the industry. See story here
http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/221903902/1362
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/p2p.htm

Former FCC chairmen join digital kids task force, CNET
Common Sense Media launches a national campaign to
help educate parents and teachers about the effect of
digital media on kids.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9856274-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm

for Tim's reading list about the early telephone
systemâ€¦, Tech Liberation Front
Tim... You should quit reading that crap by John
Brooks and read the authoritative history of the
issue, you know, the one I wrote for the Cato Journal
14 years ago!.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techliberation/~3/221967521/043261.php
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/telephone.htm

Whoops! Ask.com complaint to FTC is an EPIC mistake,
CNET
Electronic Privacy Information Center and Center for
Digital Democracy want feds to change Ask.com's
supposedly privacy-invading practices. Alas, the
practices don't exist.
http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9855935-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/

CDT Urges FTC to Support Privacy Enhancing
Technologies, CDT
CDT today urged the Federal Trade Commission to
expeditiously review and publicly dismiss a complaint
against Ask.com alleging unfair and deceptive
practices relating to the company's AskEraser
technology. CDT believes the allegations are
unfounded, noting that Ask.com addressed the issues
within its control prior to the filing of the
complaint, and is in the process of investigating how
to provide consumers with more choices. CDT urged the
Commission to use this opportunity to send an
affirmative message in support of companies seeking
new and innovative methods of privacy protection.
http://www.cdt.org/headlines/1082
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/

Student fined for attack against Estonian Web site, CW
A 20-year-old Estonian student who wished to register
his dismay with the removal of a statue has been fined
for participating in a DDoS attack that paralyzed his
own country's Web sites and caused international
tensions with Russia.
http://feeds.computerworld.com/~r/Computerworld/News/~3/222340227/article.do
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/cyberwar.htm

Strong Majority of Voters Oppose Telecom Immunity, EFF
The Melman Group, a national polling organization
commissioned by the ACLU, recently published a poll
finding that 57 percent of likely voters opposed
immunity for the telecommunications carriers who
participated in the government's warrantless
surveillance program, while only a third supported
letting the telecoms off the hook. The poll had a
margin of error of +/-3.1%. As shown by the poll:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/01/strong-majority-voters-oppose-telecom-immunity
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/fisa.htm

Cheney Pushes for Permanent Warrantless Wiretapping
Power, Ecommerce Times
Storm clouds are roiling anew over Washington this
week as the impending expiration of the Protect
America Act brings surveillance legislation to the
forefront of congressional attention once again. Not
least among the rumbles of thunder was an address
delivered Wednesday by Vice President Dick Cheney at
the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, in
which he urged Congress to make permanent changes to
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 that
were only temporarily provided last summer by the
Protect America Act, which is set to expire next week.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/61370.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/fisa.htm

FISA and immunity, Susan Crawford
Great work today on the OpenCongress.org blog, telling
us that (1) Sen. Specter wants to have the government
step in as defendants in the tens of cases pending
against cooperative telcos involved in violating FISA
and other laws; (2) Sen. Feinstein wants the secret
FISA court to decide the question of immunity; (3)
Sen. Leahyâ€™s amendment removing immunity from the
telcos has been rejected and Sen. Dodd has vowed to
filibuster.
http://scrawford.net/blog/fisa-and-immunity/1101/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/fisa.htm

Strategic Resource for Health Care Organizations,
Merit
With an ever-increasing number of Michigan hospitals
utilizing telemedicine and web-based medical services,
high-speed networking and Internet2 access are now
vital for the day-to-day operations of health care
organizations that operate 24 hours a day, seven days
a week.
http://www.merit.edu/news/newsarchive/article.php?article=20080124_healthcare
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/usf/telemedicine.htm

Our political advertising policies, Google
The Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary are behind
us, and Super Tuesday is just around the corner. So
far in this presidential campaign season, candidates
have used the web in new and creative ways - including
social networks, maps mashups, geo-targeting online
ads and even sending a Twitter or two. While none of
these tools can take the place of voters sizing up a
candidate up close (bringing to mind the New Hampshire
voter who once said she hadn't made up her mind about
a candidate because "I've only met him twice"), these
new technologies have helped voters get more
personally engaged in the political process.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GooglePublicPolicyBlog/~3/222467456/our-political-advertising-policies.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/VOTE/

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