[Cybertel-Ann] 11.18 :: "I, for one, Welcome Our New Overlords!" :: The Users Are Revolting! ("They Certainly Are!") :: Crowdsourcing Censorship :: Let's see, teachers salaries, library upkeep, or P2P Filters?? ::

Tue Nov 18 18:55:42 PST 2008

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             CyberTelecom News  
      Federal Internet Law and Policy
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"There ought to be limits to freedom" – George W. Bush 

A National Broadband Strategy Call to Action, PK
A large and diverse array of stakeholders in America’s broadband future will announce the formation of the U.S. Broadband Coalition and release a Call to Action that provides President-elect Obama and the incoming Congress a framework for a comprehensive national broadband strategy.
http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/455937371/1875
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

High Court Declines Review of MySpace CDA 230 Case, Techlaw
The U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari this morning in Doe v. MySpace Inc., No. 08-340, a case raising the issue whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act immunizes MySpace from a claim that it negligently failed to protect an underage user from sexual assault by another MySpace user. The Fifth Circuit held that allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that MySpace had negligently failed to implement reasonable safety measures to protect her daughter--a 14-year-old who misrepresented her age when registering on the site--were, in effect, seeking to hold MySpace liable for the communication
http://pblog.bna.com/techlaw/2008/11/high-court-decl.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/samaritan.htm

Two New Ripoff Report Cases Filed, Citizen's Media
Eric Goldman reminds us (here, here) that angry companies and individuals are still suing Xcentric Ventures, LLC and Ed Magedson left and right over reports submitted to Ripoff Report.  Ripoff Report is a website that allows users to post reports about individuals and companies that they believe have "ripped them off" or treated them unfairly.  The website has attracted much criticism and litigation for refusing to remove allegedly false reports and offering a service to aggrieved businesses called the "Corporate Advocacy Program" ("CAP"), under which, for a fee, the website will investigate "rip-off" reports targeting
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CitizenMediaLawProject/~3/456122152/two-new-ripoff-report-cases-filed
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/samaritan.htm

Users Revolted: Net Neutrality to Win, Peerflow
This column is dedicated to the top managers of American business whose policies and practices helped ensure Barack Obama's victory. The mandate for change that sounded across this country is not limited to our new President and Congress. That bell also tolls for you. Obama's triumph was ignited in part by your failure to understand and respect your own consumers, customers, employees, and end users. The despair that fueled America's yearning for change and hope grew to maturity in your garden.
http://riskman.typepad.com/peerflow/2008/11/users-revolted-net-neutrality-to-win.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Net Neutrality Legislation Expected In January, Techdirt
This probably won't come as a big surprise to most folks, but Sen. Byron Dorgan, has made it clear that he intends to reintroduce net neutrality legislation early next year. While the issue of net neutrality used to not be a partisan issue, somehow it became one a few years ago, with many Democrats lining up in favor of net neutrality regulations, and many Republicans against them. President-elect Obama's platform included network neutrality legislation, and with more Democrats being elected to both the House and
http://techdirt.com/articles/20081113/1531282827.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Narrowband on the Decline in the U.S., Internet News
Dial-up sheds users in a number of U.S. states, but the nation continues being outpaced globally.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/b1RsMo6bIig/3785496
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm

Judge Allows Bogus Jones Day Trademark Claims to Go Forward, EFF
In a decision that could have significant negative consequences for online speech and commerce, Judge John Darrah of the Northern District of Illinois has refused to dismiss some of the most preposterous trademark claims we've ever seen (and that's saying something).
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/11/judge-allows-bogus-jones-day-trademark-claims-go-f
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/trademark.htm

Saudis Crowdsourcing Internet Censorship, Techdirt
A couple months ago we covered the Chinese government's effort to create a crowdsourced version of their Internet censorship operation. Now, BusinessWeek is reporting on a variation of this trend in Saudi Arabia. As you probably know, Saudi Arabia maintains an extensive Internet censorship effort, but, in contrast to the Chinese model which involves tens of thousands of workers, the Saudis only employs 25 people. Instead, roughly 1,200 requests are sent in by Saudi citizens, about half of which are
http://techdirt.com/articles/20081116/1953102841.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/me.htm

RIAA Wins, Campuses Lose as Tennessee Governor Signs Campus Network Filtering Law, EFF
While the entertainment industry failed to get "hard" requirements for universities in the Higher Education Act passed by Congress earlier this year, the RIAA succeeded in Tennessee (and is pushing in other states) with this provision that gives Big Content the ability to hold universities hostage through the use of infringement notices. Moreover, the new rules will cost Tennessee a pretty penny -- in the cost review attached to the Tennessee bill, the state's Fiscal Review Committee estimates that the new obligations will
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/11/riaa-wins-campuses-lose-tennessee-governor-signs-c
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/p2p.htm

AOL confirms: No more user-uploaded video, CNET
The company is shuttering its video hosting service in December, and invites users to transfer their videos to start-up Motionbox instead.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10098335-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/

Obama FCC Selection Team Won't Make AT&T Happy - Both pro-neutrality, lack rose colored glasses on broadband deployment, dslreports
The Obama camp has pegged two long-time net neutrality advocates to head up their Federal Communications Commission Review team, according to Wired. One is Wharton professor Kevin Werbach (see his CircleID articles), who was a former FCC staffer, and is organizer of the annual tech conference Supernova. The other is Susan Crawford (see her blog), a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and traditionally very pro-consumer -- particularly when it comes to broadband deployment:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Obama-FCC-Selection-Team-Wont-Make-ATT-Happy-99153
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm#tra

Obama transition team names FCC review leaders, CNET
The transition team for President-elect Barack Obama announces several more agency review team leaders, including those who will head up the reviewal process of the FCC.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10097760-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm#tra

Transitioning, Werblog
I’m honored to be named as co-leader of the FCC review team for the Obama-Biden Transition Project, along with the wonderful and brilliant Susan Crawford.  (Yes, “Ken Werbach” is me — I’m working on getting the typo fixed on the website.)
http://werblog.com/2008/11/transitioning/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm#tra

Obama FCC Transition Team Now Includes Totally AWESOME Additions!!!!, Tales from the Sausage Factory
Good news right before Sabbath kicks in. According to this article, Obama's FCC transition team will now include Susan Crawford and Kevin Werbach!!! These are not just people who “get it.” These are people who “got it”...
http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1386
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm#tra

Susan Crawford, Kevin Werbach Named Obama's FCC Review Team Leads, CircleID
We'd like to congratulate our long time CircleID participants, Susan Crawford and Kevin Werbach for being named today as Obama-Biden FCC Transition Team Leads.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/susan_crawford_kevin_werbach_obama_fcc_review_team_leads/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm#tra

Net Spying Firm and ISPs Sued Over Ad System, Wired
ISP customers sue a controversial Net monitoring firm and its ISP partners, alleging that the companies violated federal wiretapping law with their ad-targeting scheme. All have already quit monitoring customers' behavior after bad press and congressional pressure.
http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/politics/~3/452369964/net-spying-firm.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/

FTC Takes Aim at "Stalker Spyware" Company, CDT
Acting on a request from the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. District Court has temporarily halted the sale of "stalker spyware," pending a decision on whether these products engage in unfair and deceptive practices by enabling and encouraging privacy invasion. Keylogger programs are often sold as "stalker spyware" and describe in detail how to spy on others without being detected, according to the FTC complaint. CDT applauds the hard work of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which first brought a
http://www.cdt.org/headlines/1173
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/spy.htm

Jerry's perfect. Jerry's our man. Jerry's gone., CNET
Jerry Yang shepherded a colossal decline in Yahoo shareholder value (and may be hurting his open-source assets in the process).
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10100844-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/yahoo.htm

Cable Grabbing 71% Of New Broadband Customers - Solidly beating back telcos over last two quarters, dslreports
If you had any doubts that cable has been beating up the telcos a bit the last few quarters, the latest data from Leichtman Research should eliminate them. According to Leichtman, the twenty largest cable and telephone providers in the US representing about 94% of the market acquired approximately 1.3 million net additional high-speed Internet subscribers in the third quarter of 2008. Of those 1.3 million new customers, cable operators added 870,000, or 67% of them in the third quarter. "Over the past
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Cable-Grabbing-71-Of-New-Broadband-Customers-99158
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/cable.htm

Google's Schmidt calls for more innovation, stronger infrastructure, CNET
The CEO on Monday laid out broad policy proposals for Washington that include opening up the government and investing in infrastructure.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10101512-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

Eric Schmidt: Open Broadband to Competition, IP Democracy
Riding high on his visible role as an adviser to the Obama campaign, Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke to a packed auditorium in the Ronald Reagan Center here today at an event sponsored by the New America Foundation. During his talk, Schmidt addressed two core topics --
http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/2008/11/18/#003074
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

Tennessee Adopts $9.5M University Piracy Measure Despite School Layoffs, Wired
The 222,000-student Tennessee public university system is bracing for layoffs and class reductions as part of a $43.7 billion budget shortfall, but Tennessee lawmakers have approved a $9.5 million measure requiring university internet filtering to prevent the sharing of copyrighted music and other works. The Recording Industry Association of America hailed the nation's first-of-its-kind measure.
http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/politics/~3/457761052/tennessee-adopt.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/p2p.htm

Eric Schmidt on what's ahead in 2009, Google
There is no shortage of people coming to Washington these days with ideas for how to address some of the serious challenges we face. Today in D.C. our CEO Eric Schmidt offered some of his own ideas for how policy makers might approach some of those challenges. He said that despite these concerns, he is an optimist, citing the combination of new technology and "the genius of the American people."
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GooglePublicPolicyBlog/~3/457580344/eric-schmidt-on-whats-ahead-in-2009.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/google.htm

Court Orders Halt to Sale of Spyware, ftc
At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. District Court has issued a temporary restraining order halting the sale of keylogger spyware.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/11/cyberspy.shtm
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/spy.htm

ITU and the Increasing Controversy Over Internet Governance, CircleID
The Council of the UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is set to talk Wednesday about the Union's contribution to follow-up of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and the third Internet Governance Forum (IGF).
http://www.circleid.com/posts/itu_controversy_internet_governance/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm

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