From rcannon100 at yahoo.com Thu Apr 2 12:22:05 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 13:22:05 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 4.2 :: Who Protects the WOZ? :: DNS DOS :: Off the Hook :: Cybersecurity Legislation :: FTC Red Flags :: Message-ID: <916589.53914.qm@web37904.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ "I well remember my disgust when someone told me it was possible to send conversation along a wire." - Enos N. Barton, co-founder of Western Electric Co. (Telephone Tribute) Who Protects The Internet?, Pop Sci Pull up the wrong undersea cable, and the Internet goes dark in Berlin or Dubai. http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-03/who-protects-intrnet More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/backbone.htm Can RUS Turn $2.5 Bn to $25 Bn? Loan Gaurantees May Work Better Than Loans or Grants., Tales from the Sausage Factory Unsurprisingly, a lot of folks at David Isenberg's excellent Freedom 2 Connect Conference this past week had a lot of attention focused on the stimulus. Most of the discussion has centered around NTIA's Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BT... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1500 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm 4G wireless broadband coming to rural areas, says Verizon, Ars Technica When the dust cleared from last year's 700MHz spectrum auction, Verizon was the biggest winner. The telecom shelled out billions of dollars in order to http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2009/04/4g-wireless-broadband-coming-to-rural-areas-says-verizon.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm NeuStar Confirms 'Significant' Denial of Service Attack On UltraDNS, CircleID NeuStar confirmed that some of its UltraDNS managed DNS service customers were knocked offline for several hours Tuesday morning by a distributed denial of service attack. http://www.circleid.com/posts/neustar_confirms_denial_of_service_attack_ultradns/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ Dancing with the Stars dumps Wozniak, CW After four weeks on "Dancing with the Stars," Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak was booted from the show last night. http://feeds.computerworld.com/click.phdo?i=eee9cacb2a005216dcc5df2a810c6c0a More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/ Knowledge at Wharton Video: ?New Rules for a New Age?, WERBLOG Knowledge at Wharton has posted a 14-minute video interview with me about the FCC, Internet regulation, and major tech trends. http://werblog.com/2009/04/knowledgewharton-video-new-rules-for-a-new-age/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm Off the Hook, WERBLOG The draft of my law review article, Off the Hook (Cornell Law Review, forthcoming 2010), is now available on the SSRN online repository. http://werblog.com/2009/04/off-the-hook/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm New Bill Would Give Feds Sweeping Cybersecurity Enforcement Powers, Ecommerce Times A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate would give the government dramatic new powers to regulate and enforce federal standards for cybersecurity. http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/66711.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/ Bill Would Federalize Cybersecurity- Senate Proposal Would Affect Even Some Private Networks, Senate Commerce No description http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=6bdb9f79-80f9-409a-a084-9f5dac0bf692 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/ Chairman Rockefeller and Senator Snowe Introduce Comprehensive Cybersecurity Legislation, Senate Commerce No description http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=bb7223ef-1d78-4de4-b1d5-4cf54fc38662 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/ FTC Offers 'Red Flags' Web Site To Help Creditors and Financial Institutions Design Identity Theft Prevention Programs, FTC The Federal Trade Commission has launched a Web site to help entities covered by the Red Flags Rule design and implement identity theft prevention programs. http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/04/redflags.shtm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/idtheft.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc To [un]subscribe to Cybertelecom-l send mail to LISTSERV at LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the command [un]SUBSCRIBE CYBERTELECOM-L. Announce only list information available at www.lawlists.net/mailman/listinfo AUP :: www.cybertelecom.org/cybert.htm#aup Cybertelecom Link to us! www.cybertelecom.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From rcannon100 at yahoo.com Tue Apr 7 08:53:41 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 08:53:41 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 4.7 :: BB Stimulus :: OSTWG :: Open Wireless :: Net Neutrality :: US Ranked 17th :: DNSSEC :: Australia :: AP to sue Aggregators :: Anniversary of RFC #1 :: Message-ID: <188975.95996.qm@web37902.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ "The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument." - Alexander Graham Bell, 1878 Telephone Tribute NTIA Testimony: Broadband Stimulus Funding Should Support Social and Economic Justice., Sascha Below is my testimony before NTIA from March 16, 2009. While most of the other folks who presented focused on the impacts for corporations, I wanted to bring the conversation back http://saschameinrath.com/2009/apr/03/ntia_testimony_broadband_stimulus_funding_should_support_social_and_economic_justice More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm Why NTIA Should Tell NARUC ?Thanks, But We Can Manage the Stimulus Spending Just Fine.?, Tales from the Sausage Factory OK, I get that when you are a trade association you push for your members. But this is silly. The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) has sent a letter to the National Telecommunications Information Administration (... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1503 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm CDT's Morris Named to Online Safety and Technology Working Group, CDT CDT's John Morris has been appointed to the "Online Safety and Technology Working Group," run by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. The working group was http://www.cdt.org/headlines/1197 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/reports.htm Group urges FCC to open AT&T's 3G to Skype on iPhone, CW An advocacy group asked the FCC to decide whether AT&T and Apple broke federal rules by blocking iPhone owners from using the Skype voice-over-IP service on AT&T's 3G wireless network. http://feeds.computerworld.com/click.phdo?i=4c7134dd2cfec3663e0b5ae17ebe6f94 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/cpe.htm FCC Pressed To Defend Wireless Open Internet, Consumer Affairs AT&T, T-Mobile accused of cutting services, blocking applications http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2009/04/fp_fcc_wireless.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/cpe.htm The FCC teaches me a lesson: Don't complain, Ars Technica Four separate times over the course of eight densely typewritten pages, the letter from the Federal Communications Commission to me mentions the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 http://feeds.computerworld.com/click.phdo?i=1fcb734861255256fa0f7a8ca05763ef More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/enforce.htm FCC Looks Ahead to Net Neutrality, Privacy, Internet News Top agency advisors look ahead to the simmering issues likely to boil over this year at the FCC. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/cqoqft3iDGY/3813751 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm Copps: FCC needs fifth net neutrality principle, Ars Technica Interim Federal Communications Commission chair Michael Copps has just called for a fifth Internet non-discrimination principle that would be added to the http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/a-pre-history-of-the-fccs-fifth-internet-rule.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm U.S. falls to 17th in U.N. broadband rankings, Speed Matters In a report that ranked 154 countries on their advanced use of information and communications technology, the United States fell from 11th to 17th between 2002 and 2007. http://www.speedmatters.org/blog/us-falls-to-17th-in-broadband-rankings.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm Crypto-politics creeps into DNSSEC, IGP While the fight over using cryptography to protect personal communications was allegedly "won" during the late 1990s, the battle over using it to protect critical Internet resources is just heating http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IGPBlog/~3/uNbg1sTLSik/4142793.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/security.htm Australia Moves to Build High-Speed Network, NYT The eight-year, $31 billion project will be one of the largest state-sponsored Internet infrastructure upgrades in the world. http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=4d2cc50c5fbc0bdf60c4a91afefc9ba7 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/asia.htm A.P. Seeks to Rein in Sites Using Its Content, NYT As advertising dollars shrink and newspapers close, the news media organization threatens legal action unless sites obtain permission to use articles and share revenue. http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=fbc7039cb53397ca8c855e2937e58cd8 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/link.htm Some questions related to Google News and the Associated Press, Google Yesterday I entered the following search in Google News: [Phish in mountain view]. The search results led me to click on this headline, which took me to the full story by the San Jose Mercury http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GooglePublicPolicyBlog/~3/FD4I7Ga4e7I/some-questions-related-to-google-news.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/link.htm AP Says It's Going To Sue Aggregators, Techdirt Given some of the Associated Press's recent actions, this won't come as a surprise, but the AP has now announced that it will start suing any news aggregator that doesn't share its profits with http://techdirt.com/articles/20090406/1515164406.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/link.htm AP launches campaign against Internet "misappropriation", Ars Technica We'd better hope it's not "hot news" that the Associated Press announced "an aggressive effort to track down copyright violators on the Internet" at its http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/ap-launches-campaign-against-internet-misappropriation.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/link.htm AP threatens to sue aggregators, search engines, Lost Remote Today the AP came out swinging against web sites that post its content without authorization. According to the New York Times, the AP is especially concerned about search engines and http://www.lostremote.com/2009/04/06/ap-threatens-to-sue-aggregators-search-engines/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/link.htm 97 Of The Top 100 Online Classified Sites Are Craigslist, Techdirt Well here's a little nugget of information that show you just how dominant Craigslist has become in the online classifieds space. A new report suggests that 97 of the top 100 online classified http://techdirt.com/articles/20090403/0323364374.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ Steve Crocker on the 40th Anniversary of RFC #1, CircleID Today marks the 40th anniversary of request for comments (RFC) documents that, as Steve Crocker who wrote the first RFC says, have shaped the inner workings of the Internet and have http://www.circleid.com/posts/steve_crocker_40th_anniversary_rfc/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/internet.htm Obama Administration Embraces Bush Position on Warrantless Wiretapping and Secrecy, EFF The Obama administration formally adopted the Bush administration's position that the courts cannot judge the legality of the National Security Agency's (NSA's) warrantless wiretapping program, filing a motion to dismiss Jewel v. NSA late Friday. http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/04/05 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/bigbrother.htm Cybersecurity review scrutinizing telecom policy, CNET The government may have to take a new approach to securing the nation's telecommunications infrastructure, two senior administration officials said Friday. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10212101-38.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-PoliticsandLaw More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/reliability.htm Senators introduce bill to limit mobile spam, CW Two U.S. senators have introduced a bill that would set new restrictions on the ability of organizations to send unsolicited commercial text messages, or mobile spam, to cell phones. http://feeds.computerworld.com/click.phdo?i=02c6fa2eba4ad7cb848466f340fc6096 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/fcc.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc To [un]subscribe to Cybertelecom-l send mail to LISTSERV at LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the command [un]SUBSCRIBE CYBERTELECOM-L. Announce only list information available at www.lawlists.net/mailman/listinfo AUP :: www.cybertelecom.org/cybert.htm#aup Cybertelecom Link to us! www.cybertelecom.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From rcannon100 at yahoo.com Thu Apr 9 09:27:57 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 09:27:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 4.9 :: 100% AP Free :: Natl Broadband Plan :: TAC :: TW Data Caps :: Teens Online :: Sec. 230 :: NIST YouTube :: SMS Spam :: Message-ID: <919291.47198.qm@web37903.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ Most of us were graduate students and we expected that a professional crew would show up eventually to take over the problems we were dealing with... We had accumulated a few notes on the design of DEL and other matters, and we decided to put them together in a set of notes... The basic ground rules were that anyone could say anything and that nothing was official. And to emphasize the point, I labeled the notes 'Request for Comments.' I never dreamed these notes would be distributed through the very medium we were discussing in these notes. - Stephen Crocker, The Request For Comments Reference Guide, RFC 1000, Aug. 1987. FCC Developing Plan To Deliver Broadband, Wash Post The Federal Communications Commission yesterday began mapping out a plan to bring high-speed Internet service to the entire nation, starting with questions on how to increase its availability, improve its quality of service and make it more affordable. http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/technology/index_xml/~3/BiJlpF6DiuA/AR2009040804323.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/ FCC Gets its Data On?, FMC This morning, FMC staff attended an "Open Agenda" meeting at the Federal Communications Commission that outlined steps the agency would take to expand broadband, determine competition in the video marketplace and collect data on female and minority ownership among http://futureofmusiccoalition.blogspot.com/2009/04/fcc-gets-its-data-on.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/ FCC launches "transformative" inquiry on broadband, Ars Technica "You may have concluded by now that I think this is a pretty big deal. It really is," remarked interim Federal Communications Commission chair Michael Copps at Wednesday's Open Commission meeting. Copps http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2009/04/fcc-launches-transformative-inquiry-on-broadband.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/ FCC Kicks Off Effort to Develop a National Broadband Plan, Tech Policy Central At its public meeting in D.C. earlier today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took the first step toward creation of a national broadband plan by voting to formally adopt a Notice of Inquiry to solicit input from the public. http://www.techpolicycentral.com/2009/04/fcc-kicks-off-effort-to-develo.php More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/ 2009: The FCC Finally Makes A Broadband Plan - Now the real test: shaking off lobbyist influence..., dslreports According to an FCC announcement, the FCC will finally start developing a national broadband strategy this week, after more than a decade of assuming we didn't need one. That assumption resulted in the United States' mediocre global showing when it comes to speed, penetration, competition and price, with Americans paying more, for less -- than more than a dozen developed http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/2009-The-FCC-Finally-Makes-A-Broadband-Plan-101787 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/ FCC seeks input on national broadband plan, CNET No description http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10214974-38.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-PoliticsandLaw More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/ TAC is Coming Back, Spectrum Talk Responding to concerns expressed here previously FCC appears to be reviving the Technological Advisory Council, its advisory committee on the technical aspects of http://spectrumtalk.blogspot.com/2009/04/tac-is-coming-back-responding-to.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/tac.htm The price-gouging premiums of Time Warner Cable's data caps, Ars Technica Time Warner Cable, stung by online criticism of its paltry traffic caps (in tests, these have ranged form 5GB/month to 40GB/month) and ludicrous pricing schemes, has taken to the 'Net to defend its sullied http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/the-price-gouging-premiums-of-time-warner-cables-data-caps.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/tiers.htm Time Warner Customers Less Than Pleased With Usage Caps, PK Time Warner is among the cable companies slowly expanding its usage caps. Time Warner argues it needs these caps to pay for expanding capacity. As Ars Technica notes this doesn?t really bear up under close scrutiny. Indeed, ?we need to do this to pay for all the infrastructure http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/Tuo2y3oPjMg/2080 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/tiers.htm Teens Want To Interact With Their Friends, Not Strangers, Online, Techdirt It's become quite clear that the threat to children from sexual predators on the internet has been massively overhyped by the media looking for a juicy story and for politicians looking to take advantage of it. Studies have shown that the number of sexual offenses against kids has dropped http://techdirt.com/articles/20090403/1038214382.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Anonymity, Reader Comments & Section 230, Tech Lib Front Doug Feaver, a former Washington Post reporter and editor, has published a very interesting editorial today entitled ?Listening to the Dot-Commenters.? In the piece, Feaver discusses his personal change of heart about ?the anonymous, unmoderated, often appallingly inaccurate, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techliberation/~3/nNyDAvepyOY/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/samaritan.htm New Hampshire Court Tramples on Constitution, Reporter's Privilege, Section 230, What Have You, Citizen's Media A reader recently tipped us off to a troubling ruling from a trial court in New Hampshire: The Mortgage Specialists, Inc. v. Implode-Explode Heavy Industries, Inc., No. 08-E-0572 (N.H. Super. Ct. Mar. 11, 2009). In the decision, Justice McHugh of the Superior Court for http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenMediaLawProject/~3/rBWklTg5Mpw/new-hampshire-court-tramples-constitution-reporters-privilege-section-230-what-have-you More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/samaritan.htm The case against PACER: tearing down the courts' paywall, Ars Technica If you want to find out how the Obama administration is spending the stimulus money, you can go to recovery.gov for detailed spending data. Many http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/case-against-pacer.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/ NIST Launches YouTube Channel, NIST As part of a U.S. government-wide effort to expand the amount of information available to the public about its programs, NIST has created a channel on the video social networking site YouTube. http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/techbeat/tb2009_0407.htm#youtube More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/ Celebrate National Cell Phone Recycling Week: Donate Your Used Devices, CTIA The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, along with cell phone manufacturers, service providers and retails have declared April 6th-April 12th to be ?National Cell Phone Recycling Week.? http://www.ctia.org/blog/index.cfm/2009/4/8/Celebrate-National-Cell-Phone-Recycling-Week-Donate-Your-Used-Devices More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/environment/ Stop Blaming Google For Your Own Mistakes, Techdirt With plenty of attention going towards Eric Schmidt's attempt to convinced newspapers that Google is helping, rather than hurting them, the much more interesting thing to read is Danny Sullivan's absolutely brilliant outpouring of frustration to newspaper industry execs and publishers, http://techdirt.com/articles/20090407/2249374425.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/link.htm Google addresses newspaper woes, BBC Google defends the way it makes money through aggregating news from newspaper publishers facing closure and falling revenues. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/7988561.stm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/link.htm Extra! Extra! AP and Newspapers In Losing Battle Against Web, PK Not content with trying to destroy the concept of fair use for images, in the case of artist Shepard Fairey?s transformative poster of President Obama, the Associated Press (AP) is now threatening a war on the words of the Internet. Faced with a rebellion from its members (the AP http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/5O1BKPKhXq4/2083 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/link.htm Baseball season openers hit with Web video problems, CW Major League Baseball's fee-based MLB.TV game video-streaming service is having technical problems that are affecting the quality of the Web broadcasts. http://feeds.computerworld.com/click.phdo?i=b63025105b10e9fd0cc5ecaf9082afe1 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ Q1 2009 CAN-SPAM Quick Recaps, Tech & Marketing Law While it seems most CAN-SPAM watchers (and even traditional media, apparently) await the results of key 9th... http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2009/04/a_quick_recap_o.htm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/ Senators Want To Ban SMS Spam, Techdirt While there have been lots of attempts to ban spam email (some less effective than others), text-message spam sent to mobile phones has largely escaped legislative scrutiny. The CAN SPAM Act bans sending spam emails to phones, but it doesn't specifically address SMS. An http://techdirt.com/articles/20090407/1106454418.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/fcc.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc To [un]subscribe to Cybertelecom-l send mail to LISTSERV at LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the command [un]SUBSCRIBE CYBERTELECOM-L. Announce only list information available at www.lawlists.net/mailman/listinfo AUP :: www.cybertelecom.org/cybert.htm#aup Cybertelecom Link to us! www.cybertelecom.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From rcannon100 at yahoo.com Tue Apr 14 08:25:04 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:25:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 4.14 :: Broadband Stimulus :: TW Tiers :: AT&T Fiber Cut :: AP Moves Look Stupid to Untrained Eye :: Boston Computer Sci Student Arrested :: Message-ID: <97698.63760.qm@web37904.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ ?Man is least in himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.? - Oscar Wilde Broadband stimulus and the FCC's Internet policy statement, Ars Technica This week's hoopla over at the Federal Communications Commission focused on the launching of a Notice of Inquiry that is seeking http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/broadband-stimulus-and-the-fccs-internet-policy-statement.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm CDT Says Broadband Stimulus Should Demand Openness, CDT CDT filed comments today urging the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to ensure that broadband services supported with stimulus funds will be open to the full range of current and future Internet uses. CDT argued that the broadband stimulus http://www.cdt.org/headlines/1198 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm Top ten ($7.2B) broadband stimulus: ideal conditions, CAIDA Last month (23 March) I was on an NTIA panel at the Department of Commerce, to recommend conditions on this broadband stimulus money, aka arm wrestling between companies. Gigi covers it in her blog; today was the deadline to finish my recommendations to DOC and NTIA: http://blog.caida.org/best_available_data/2009/04/13/top-ten-72b-broadband-stimulus-ideal-conditions/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm Time Warner Cable Delays Texas Metered Billing - Austin, San Antonio get reprieve -- other markets don't, dslreports Time Warner Cable recently announced they'd be expanding their metered billing trial into four additional markets: Rochester, NY, Greensboro, North Carolina and Austin and San Antonio, Texas. The company stated they'd begin tracking user consumption this month, then start http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Time-Warner-Cable-Delays-Texas-Metered-Billing-101892 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/tiers.htm Congressman: there should be a law against Internet caps!, Ars Technica Time Warner Cable's Internet usage caps, rolled out to more test markets last week, aren't just generating controversy among the geekerati. With nearly unbelievable speed, in fact, the issue packed its bags http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/congressman-there-should-be-a-law-against-internet-caps.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/tiers.htm Goldman Sachs tries to bully Goldmansachs666.com off the 'Net, Ars Technica Goldman Sachs has bigger things to worry about in this economy than a conspiracy theory-filled gripe site, but that's what it has focused its efforts on in an http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/goldman-sachs-wields-trademark-claim-at-gripe-site.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/acpa.htm Service restored after AT&T fiber cut, CW The fiber cut that shut off phone and Internet service to thousands of San Francisco Bay Area residents on Thursday was fixed overnight, according to AT&T. http://feeds.computerworld.com/click.phdo?i=3a1858c59e0574e67ba2b44d854611c2 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att.htm AT&T Increases Reward to $250,000 for Information on Bay Area Network Vandalism, ATT AT&T today announced the reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the vandals responsible for damaging fiber optic cables near San Jose and San Carlos, Calif., has been increased to $250,000. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AttCorporateRssFeeds/~3/aYHS3Mqmc1E/press-room More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att.htm Wikileaks German Domain Suspended - As countries react poorly to leaked blacklists..., dslreports As a growing number of countries and ISPs attempt to filter the Internet of all its naughty bits, whistle-blowing and document sharing website Wikileaks has been ruining their party by posting a list of all the filtered URLs. Last month that resulted in German authorities raiding the home of the http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Wikileaks-German-Domain-Suspended-101877 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/ Coupons.com DMCA Fight Over... Again, Techdirt We'd been covering the Coupons.com DMCA legal saga for a few years now, and we thought it had ended back in November, when Coupons.com dropped its case against John Stottlemire. If you don't recall, Stottlemire was sued because he'd realized that if you deleted a few files on your http://techdirt.com/articles/20090412/2259424471.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/dmca.htm AP Exec Claims That Its Moves Look Stupid To The Untrained Eye... Not Clear On What The Trained Eye Thinks, Techdirt The Associated Press has been doing a ton of questionable moves of late, that certainly look like a clueless organization committing suicide -- but, wait! Jim Kennedy, who oversees strategic planning for the AP, claims that only "to the untrained eye, it looks like we're stupid." But, of http://techdirt.com/articles/20090413/0144554475.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/link.htm Computer science student challenges tech seizure, CNET A Boston graduate student is challenging the legality of a warrant that enabled police to search his dorm room and seize several of his computers, an iPod, a cell phone, and other devices. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10218460-38.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-PoliticsandLaw More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/crime.htm Computer Science Student Targeted for Criminal Investigation for Allegedly Sending Email, EFF A Boston College computer science student has asked a Massachusetts court to quash an invalid search warrant for his dorm room that resulted in campus police illegally seizing several computers, an iPod, a cell phone, and other technology. http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/04/13 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/crime.htm Officials say cyber defense costly, AFCYBER Defending the Defense Department's global information grid from attacks cost the U.S. military more than $100 million over the past six months, U.S. Strategic Command officials said April 8. ?br /> ?br /> Gen. Kevin P. Chilton, STRATCOM commander, and Army Brig. Gen. John Davis, http://www.afcyber.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123143725 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/cyberwar.htm Conficker Hits Utah, Internet News From the blogs: The persistent worm claims a fresh pack of victims. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/aNFWJwIuRsw/3815051 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/worms.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc To [un]subscribe to Cybertelecom-l send mail to LISTSERV at LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the command [un]SUBSCRIBE CYBERTELECOM-L. Announce only list information available at www.lawlists.net/mailman/listinfo AUP :: www.cybertelecom.org/cybert.htm#aup Cybertelecom Link to us! www.cybertelecom.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From rcannon100 at yahoo.com Thu Apr 16 09:03:26 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:03:26 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] (no subject) Message-ID: <462692.89397.qm@web37907.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play. Franklin D. Roosevelt Manassas Preserves Broadband-Over-Power-Line Internet Service, Wash Post Manassas residents who use broadband-over-power-line Internet service will be able to stay plugged into the Web for at least a few more months because of action taken by Manassas City Council. http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/technology/index_xml/~3/pErnJeCaWz8/AR2009041403723.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/power.htm Chess End-Game for the Duopoly?, Peer Flow "Now is not the time, nor is this the appropriate proceeding, to engage in a debate about the need for net neutrality obligations," two TWC lawyers warned the FCC on Monday. The discussion should stay strictly focused on broadband deployment, the company insists. "Debates in this proceeding about new net neutrality regulations would only divert attention from these important goals, delaying the distribution of funds while generating considerable contention when the Commission should instead be fostering a spirit of collaboration." `http://riskman.typepad.com/peerflow/2009/04/chess-endgame-for-the-duopoly.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm Time Warner Cable: Let's Not Talk About Net Neutrality - As we engage in an unprecedented, anti-competitive endeavor, dslreports Ars Technica notes that while Time Warner Cable is busy dealing with the scuff up over their metered billing plans, they're busy telling the FCC to pipe down about network neutrality concerns. As we've explored, the government is requiring anybody who takes some of the initial $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus funds to adhere to open network http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Time-Warner-Cable-Lets-Not-Talk-About-Net-Neutrality-101921 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm Here Comes The Connected Nation Sales Pitch - Two senators insist broadband mapping firm play central role..., dslreports We've discussed how consumer advocates believe that a group called Connected Nation is little more than a policy and PR front for the nation's largest carriers. The group was crafted under the guise of mapping and promoting broadband availability, but with a board of directors stocked with some of the biggest lobbying names in telecom, http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Here-Comes-The-Connected-Nation-Sales-Pitch-101925 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm Regulatory Tug-of-War for Broadband Stimulus, Internet News With more than 1,400 comments for how the broadband stimulus grants should be awarded, agencies have their hands full in setting rules for application period. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/zPWJiDScgww/3815511 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm Comments in FCC ?Child Safe Viewing Act? Proceeding, Tech Lib Front Today I filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in its proceeding examining the marketplace for ?advanced blocking technologies.? This proceeding was required under the ?Child Safe Viewing Act of 2007,? which Congress passed last year and President Bush signed last December. The goal of the bill and http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techliberation/~3/ZBpNZcfC5ao/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/reports.htm Democrats Take Nap On Network Neutrality - Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..., dslreports With supposedly pro-network neutrality Democrats now in a position of power in Washington, network neutrality provisions protecting consumer choice were all but a given, right? Not so much. Jason Lee Miller pens an interesting piece highlighting how (so far) the song remains the same in Washington. Interim FCC boss Michael http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Democrats-Take-Nap-On-Network-Neutrality-101903 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm Time Warner Cable tells FCC to shut up about net neutrality, Ars Technica Responding to the outcry over its proposed regimen of price-gouging bandwidth caps, Time Warner Cable says that it's anxious to explain its intentions to the public. "We appreciate the feedback we've received," http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2009/04/time-warner-cable-to-fcc-shut-up-about-net-neutrality.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm Time Warner Cable Broadband Pricing Fight Rages, Internet News Groups spar over Time Warner Cable's controversial usage-based pricing plans. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/_a2THYJ97DM/3815591 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/tiers.htm Law To Ban Broadband Caps Moves Forward, Techdirt We've already noted that NY Congressman Eric Massa believes broadband caps raise First Amendment issues, though we have trouble understanding exactly what those issues are. We're not fans of the caps by any stretch of the imagination -- and, in fact, think that they're bad for innovation and bad for everyone (including the broadband http://techdirt.com/articles/20090415/0312544520.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/tiers.htm #Amazonfail, BBC Columnist Bill Thompson on the stumble of a giant http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/8000401.stm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/ Broadband Now: Earth Day, USTelecom From telecommuting to smart utility grids to online shopping, broadband can make a considerable difference in protecting our planet. In this edition of Broadband Now, we discuss how broadband can contribute to a more sustainable future. http://www.ustelecom.org/Video_Blogs/Blog/index.php/2009/04/15/broadband-now-earth-day/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/environment/ Disappearance of Books and Movies Shoves Amazon Into Tight Corner, Ecommerce Times What is worse: to be accused of prejudice, or accused of incompetence? In the e-commerce world, where how well one safeguards one's customer data is paramount to any reputation, taking a hit on the latter is a bitter pill to swallow. http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/66803.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/ Activist Group Uses DMCA To Take Down Video Exposing Its Fake Concerned Citizens, Techdirt We've definitely seen cases where activist groups, upset with what people were saying about them, used the DMCA abusively to remove content that they had no real say over. However, this latest story is a bit strange. Before we get to it, though, I'm going to ask, politely, that the comments stick to the copyright issues at hand, http://techdirt.com/articles/20090414/0131304495.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/dmca.htm News Station Falls For April Fool's Prank, Turns to DMCA As Remedy, Techdirt Improv Everywhere, a comedic performance art group based in New York, has a history of pulling off hilarious and impressive "scenes of chaos and joy." Running "missions" such as the annual "No Pants Subway Ride," a food court musical, sending 80 people into Best Buy dressed as employees and getting 200 people to "freeze" during http://techdirt.com/articles/20090414/2105504516.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/dmca.htm Want To Know Why Newspapers Are Dying? Maureen Dowd Shows Us, Techdirt In her recent New York Times op-ed, Maureen Dowd takes aim at Google, blaming it for the sorry state of the newspaper industry. Perhaps in hopes of winning people over to the newspapers' side in the argument over how much Google should be profiting from their content, Dowd spends a lot of the article attempting to make the reader http://techdirt.com/articles/20090415/1020584521.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ FCC Managing Director Reportedly Dismissed, Spectrum Talk On April 2, a FCC news release contained the following item: "Anthony J. Dale, Managing Director, is currently on leave and will leave the agency in the next several weeks to pursue other interests." http://spectrumtalk.blogspot.com/2009/04/fcc-managing-director-reportedly_14.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm Georgetown Law Professor Tapped to Lead FTC's Consumer Protection Division, Wash Post The Federal Trade Commission yesterday named Georgetown University law professor David Vladeck as director of the agency's Bureau of Consumer Protection. http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/technology/index_xml/~3/zoEc7MlpfiU/AR2009041402853.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/ftc.htm NSA Still 'Overcollecting' American Data - Even after laws were changed to broaden their mandate..., dslreports In a bit of news that should surprise no-one if you've followed the warrantless wiretapping issue or previous NSA leaks, the New York Times reports that the NSA's domestic surveillance practices have gone "beyond the broad legal limits established by Congress." This is after the laws were changed to make domestic surveillance easier, http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/NSA-Still-Overcollecting-American-Data-101940 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/bigbrother.htm Jewel v. NSA Roundup: The Media on Obama's Position on State Secrecy and Warrantless Wiretapping, EFF The Obama Administration?s shocking decision to assert Bush-era arguments in its motion to dismiss EFF?s case against the government for warrantless wiretapping, Jewel v. NSA, has been slowly working its way into the mainstream news. We?re still hoping for more coverage, but for now there are several examples of recent reporting http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/jewel-v-nsa-roundup-media-obamas-position More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/bigbrother.htm Spam 'produces 17m tons of CO2', BBC Spam wastes enough energy to power more than 2.4m homes every year, a study finds http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/8001749.stm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/ Top VoIP Threats Detailed by Security Firm, Internet News The growing use of Voice over IP telephony services in the enterprise make it an inviting target for the bad guys. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/zE4pip3Zoa4/3815611 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/security.htm No NASA node -- only a treadmill -- named for Colbert, CW NASA has decided to name the next International Space Station wing 'Tranquility' rather than 'Colbert', despite an overwhelming vote for the latter by viewers of comedian Stephen Colbert's show on Comedy Central. http://feeds.computerworld.com/click.phdo?i=1d8e275499b08bc885e113506ab2c7cd More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc To [un]subscribe to Cybertelecom-l send mail to LISTSERV at LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the command [un]SUBSCRIBE CYBERTELECOM-L. Announce only list information available at www.lawlists.net/mailman/listinfo AUP :: www.cybertelecom.org/cybert.htm#aup Cybertelecom Link to us! www.cybertelecom.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From rcannon100 at yahoo.com Tue Apr 21 09:02:06 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:02:06 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 4.21 :: Child Safe Viewing Act :: BBand Caps :: Domain Name Seizures :: ICANN :: IPv4 Depletion :: Aneesh Chopra :: DMCA & Fair Use :: Message-ID: <527363.60740.qm@web37905.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ "There is no likehood man can ever tap the power of the atom." -- Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923 CDT Urges FCC to Avoid Filtering and Other Mandates, CDT CDT yesterday filed two set of comments with the Federal Communications Commission in response to the Child Safe Viewing Act, in which Congress asked the FCC to assess tools to help parents guide their children's television and content viewing. In joint comments filed on behalf of a coalition of industry and public interest groups, as well as http://www.cdt.org/headlines/1200 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/reports.htm Google tips FCC about new YouTube comment filtering system, Ars Technica Google has told the Federal Communications Commission that the search engine giant is working on a new filtering mechanism for YouTube. The site's engineers are developing "a number of initiatives http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/google-developing-new-you-tube-comment-filtering-system.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/reports.htm Major Filings in FCC?s ?Child Safe Viewing Act? Notice of Inquiry, Tech Lib Front As anyone who has spent time searching for comments on the FCC?s website can tell you, the agency doesn?t exactly have the most user-friendly website. In the interest of making it easier for others to read the comments that came in last week in the agency?s ?Child Safe Viewing Act? Notice of Inquiry, I have compiled all the major http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techliberation/~3/30_zbSBSjZw/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/reports.htm "Internet Openness: Net Neutrality and Beyond" @ Cardozo Law School: April 21, 2009, Sascha Tomorrow I'm keynoting at the "Internet Openness: Net Neutrality and Beyond" event at the Cardozo Law School in New York City. It should be a spirited discussion since I'm debating with Berin Szoka from the Progress and Freedom Foundation (a right-leaning, market fundamentalist think tank). Interestingly enough, I've spoken with Adam http://saschameinrath.com/2009/apr/20/internet_openness_net_neutrality_and_beyond_cardozo_law_school_april_21_2009 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm Bogus Consumer Group To 'Educate' You On Metered Billing - The quest to 'correct' your flawed perception begins..., dslreports Last week, Time Warner Cable shelved the expansion of their metered billing plan in reaction to unprecedented consumer backlash. However, the tone of their announcement made it very clear they'd be returning to the plan after they "educated" all of their "confused" consumers. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Bogus-Consumer-Group-To-Educate-You-On-Metered-Billing-102023 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/tiers.htm Is AT&T Doing Bait & Switch On Broadband Caps?, Techdirt You would think with the PR nightmare surrounding capped broadband that forced Time Warner Cable to at least temporarily back off limiting broadband, that other broadband providers would be a lot more careful. However, Gigaom reports that some AT&T U-verse customers are discovering the broadband that AT&T is selling them is http://techdirt.com/articles/20090420/1849324587.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/tiers.htm EFF Urges Kentucky Judges to Uphold Block on Domain Name Seizure, EFF The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), and the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky (ACLU of Kentucky) on Friday urged the Kentucky Supreme Court to uphold an appeals court ruling that blocked state officials from ordering out-of-state registrars to turn over control of http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/04/20 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ Upcoming Event: Congressional Seminar on "ICANN & Internet Governance: How Did We Get Here & Where Are We Heading?", IGP IGP's Milton Mueller will be a panelist at a Congressional Seminar, "ICANN & Internet Governance: How Did We Get Here & Where Are We Heading?," hosted by the Progress & Freedom Foundation on April 24, 2009 from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. in Room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IGPBlog/~3/jxfiXZEYgR0/4156285.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm ARIN Outreach on IPv4 Depletion, ARIN No description https://www.arin.net/announcements/2009/20090420.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm Aneesh Chopra as Chief Technology Officer, Google President Obama's appointment today of Aneesh Chopra as the country's first Chief Technology Officer is an important step in bringing the federal government's information systems into the 21st century. As Virginia's technology czar Aneesh has been relentless in applying technology to make government work better for citizens -- http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GooglePublicPolicyBlog/~3/yqgB9PnkX8Q/aneesh-chopra-as-chief-technology.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/ Obama's New CTO Will Be Innovation Ambassador, PK A word to the wise for those who might have occasion to work with Aneesh Chopra, President Obama?s newly designated Chief Technology Officer, from a colleague who has worked with him for the past three years: ?Put on your roller skates. He moves at 100 miles an hour.? http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/szZvIR5PS9o/2105 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/ AT&T's Own Metered Billing Plans Move Forward - Users in trial markets not told of caps until AFTER signing up?, dslreports Time Warner Cable may have slightly buckled (for now) on their plans to institute low caps and high overages, but AT&T is still testing their own metered billing system in Beaumont, Texas, and Reno Nevada. A DSL user near Lake Tahoe complains to GigaOM that users in this market aren't told about the caps until after they sign up for service. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATTs-Own-Metered-Billing-Plans-Move-Forward-102010 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att.htm AT&T Warns Users Of Callvantage Shut Down - 'Sometime in 2009,' but no news on rumored new VoIP product..., dslreports Last summer we noted that AT&T was no longer taking new orders for their Callvantage VoIP service. The company of course wanted to begin pushing their U-Verse Voice VoIP product a little harder, but employees also hinted to us that AT&T was cooking up a new bring your own broadband (BYOB) VoIP offering as well. This week finds several http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Warns-Users-Of-Callvantage-Shut-Down-102022 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att.htm Swedish ISP Starts Deleting Log Files To Protect Users From IPRED Law, Techdirt There's been plenty of attention paid to Sweden's new IPRED law, which requires ISPs to hand over identifying information on those accused of file sharing -- but we've already noted that all the law is really doing is driving people to alternatives, such as encryption. And, now, it appears that even ISPs are recognizing that it just makes http://techdirt.com/articles/20090416/1744494531.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm CNN Follows Fox News In Using DMCA To Take Down Fair Use Videos, Techdirt What is it with cable news channels for being thinskinned the second some bloggers start posting criticism? Earlier this year, Fox News used the DMCA to take down videos that were being used in commentary, and then sought to force the site to waive its fair use rights for future video usage. So, that give liberals a chance to laugh at http://techdirt.com/articles/20090418/1702514549.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/fair.htm Denver news startup backs off on goal, Lost Remote InDenverTimes.com was an experiment born from the ashes of the Rocky Mountain News. Organizers said it would take 50,000 paid subscribers by April 23rd to convince them to turn the experiment into a full-fledged operation. But as we?ve mentioned before, 50,000 in a market the size of Denver is a huge number ? impossible, really, http://www.lostremote.com/2009/04/17/denver-news-startup-backs-off-on-goal/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ Turnitin Errata: CFAA "Loss" Occurred After Complaint Was Filed, Techlaw Yesterday's blog post about the Fourth Circuit's A.V. v. iParadigms decision fretted about the fact that the court had breathed life back into what I thought was a pretty weak computer fraud claim. This morning I looked through the lower court's docket and learned that the defendant's "losses" were for time spent evaluating its Web site's code http://pblog.bna.com/techlaw/2009/04/turnitin-errata-cfaa-loss-occurred-after-complaint-was-filed-.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/crime.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc To [un]subscribe to Cybertelecom-l send mail to LISTSERV at LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the command [un]SUBSCRIBE CYBERTELECOM-L. Announce only list information available at www.lawlists.net/mailman/listinfo AUP :: www.cybertelecom.org/cybert.htm#aup Cybertelecom Link to us! www.cybertelecom.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From rcannon100 at yahoo.com Tue Apr 28 12:57:31 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:57:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 4.28 :: TW Take Net Away from NC Residents :: FCC v Fox :: NTIA OSTWG :: No Metered Broadband :: Science and Tech Advisory Council :: Cyberwar :: Message-ID: <214432.43079.qm@web37901.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ "Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." -- 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work. Time Warner Cable Wants to Take Internet Away From N.C. Residents, Save the Internet Farmer Jay Foushee has pleaded with his phone company for years to bring high-speed Internet to his rural area of Roxboro, N.C. And across the state, where nearly five million people are offline, desperate residents have petitioned phone and cable companies to finally deliver this necessary lifeline. http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2009/04/24/time-warner-cable-wants-to-take-internet-away-from-nc-residents/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/muni.htm Orlando Police Chief v. The First Amendment, Citizen's Media The Orlando Sentinel reports that Demings is threatening to sue an Orlando resident for creating a website that criticizes her performance in office. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenMediaLawProject/~3/yzMFD9GXTbU/orlando-police-chief-v-first-amendment More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm FCC, ET AL.v.FOX TELEVISION STATIONS, ET AL.. Decided 04/28/2009, S Ct No description http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-582.ZS.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm Wiki Operator Sues Apple Over Bogus Legal Threats, EFF The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit against Apple Inc. today to defend the First Amendment rights of an operator of a noncommercial, public Internet "wiki" site known as BluWiki. http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/04/27 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm NTIA Online Safety and Tech Working Group, NTIA NTIA today announced the Online Safety and Technology Working Group -- a working group dedicated to keeping children safe on the Internet. More than two dozen private sector and child and family advocacy leaders will help evaluate industry efforts to protect the privacy and safety of children and families online. http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press/2009/OSTWG_090428.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/reports.htm Supreme Court Indecency Case Has Implications for Comcast/BitTorrent, PK The big news today is the Supreme Court's ruling in FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc., wherein the Court reversed the Second Circuit's determination that the FCC acted arbitrarily when it found that "fleeting expletives" uttered by Bono, Cher and Nichole Ritchie at various televised-live award ceremonies were "indecent." It is not, http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/74ycfFkmQww/2123 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm Time Warner: No Metered Broadband... But We'll Kick You Offline If We Think You Used Too Much, Techdirt So Time Warner Cable has supposedly backed off its metered broadband until it can figure out how to do a better job presenting it (though, it's also threatening to delay upgrades if people don't accept caps or meters). Yet, as reader Matthew Henry alerts us, it appears that Time Warner Cable has instead just started kicking "unlimited" http://techdirt.com/articles/20090424/1433524643.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/tiers.htm Congressional Rep. Webcasts Hearing With Supreme Court Justices To Show How Easy It Is, Tech dirt After a bit of a (very public) back and forth, a district court in the high-profile Tenenbaum case was recently told that it cannot broadcast courtroom proceedings online, saying that it violated certain rules. This is something that Congress could change... and it sounds like some in Congress really are interested in doing so. Rep. John http://techdirt.com/articles/20090424/0240144631.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/ President Obama Announces Members of Science and Technology Advisory Council, OSTP No description http://www.ostp.gov/galleries/press_release_files/PCAST%20Release%204-27-09%20new.pdf More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/ Charter Reorganization Gets Ugly - Creditors, government hint at impropriety, fraud..., dslreports While Charter Communications insists that the carrier's bankruptcy filing and reorganization will not impact customers, that's looking less and less like a certainty. Lenders are increasingly fighting Charter's restructuring plan, claiming it's too risky and "may not be feasible." The Justice Department's U.S. Trustee is claiming Charter isn't http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Charter-Reorganization-Gets-Ugly-102149 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/ Comcast Cares Day, Philadelphia report, Comcast Today is Comcast Cares Day and nearly 60,000 Comcasters worked on over 500 service projects across the country in their local communities. I?m based in Philadelphia where there were several projects happening. I helped clean up, plant flowers, and paint at Hunting Park along with lots of other Comcast people. Seeing everyone working http://www.comcastvoices.com/2009/04/comcast-cares-day-philadelphia-report.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/comcast.htm Vonage's Plan of Compliance Accepted by the NYSE, Vonage No description http://ir.vonage.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=380004 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/vonage.htm Extending notice on the Google Book Search settlement, Google Last October, we announced a settlement agreement regarding Google Book Search that resolves class action lawsuits first filed in 2005 by the Authors Guild and the American Association of Publishers. Last Friday, along with the authors and the publishers, we submitted a letter to the court asking for permission to extend what's called the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GooglePublicPolicyBlog/~3/medRcyKRW5Q/extending-notice-on-google-book-search.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm Do You Miss Kevin Martin?, Spectrum Talk The Washington Post, of all people, has posted a rather sympathetic interview with Kevin Martin in which he complains about the other commissioners. But it is better just to let him speak for himself. http://spectrumtalk.blogspot.com/2009/04/do-you-miss-kevin-martin-video.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm Russia's cyber blockade of Georgia worked. Could it happen here?, CW Russia's cyber hijacking of Georgia was bad, but the response to it made matters worse by crippling Georgia's financial systems. Could it happen here? http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9131270&source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/cyberwar.htm White House may relieve DHS of cybersecurity role, CNET Acting White House Cyberspace Director Melissa Hathaway addresses the cybersecurity issue during the RSA computer security conference on Wednesday. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10225415-38.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-PoliticsandLaw More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dhs.htm Swine Flu Phishing Attacks and Email Scams, US CERT A full-content feed is available at http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.atom http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.html#swine_flu_phishing_attacks_and More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc Cytertelecom is now on Twitter! 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