From rcannon100 at yahoo.com Tue Feb 3 07:37:00 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 07:37:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 2.3 :: IE Slips :: Transferable and Consequently Property :: Dragon Stirred :: Flooble :: Aussies Play Baseball :: Bogus IP Claims :: Alive for Four More Months :: Message-ID: <931187.79402.qm@web37908.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. Franklin D. Roosevelt Benkler analyzes Broadband in Stimulus Bills, Isen Yochai Benkler has done a close reading of the broadband portions of both House and Senate stimulus bills. Nice work. http://isen.com/blog/2009/02/benkler-analyzes-broadband-in-stimulus.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/ M-Lab?s Plan for Measuring Broadband Performance, Verizon I attended the New America Foundation event last week where the group announced the launch of the Measurement Lab (M-Lab) and Vint Cerf outlined the project?s goals. First, he said that consumers deserve to be well-informed about the performance of their broadband connections; second, he described how the http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog//569/M-LabsPlanforMeasuringBroadbandPerformance.aspx#When:18:37:02.8900000-05:00EST More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm IE slips further as Firefox, Safari, Chrome gain, CNET Microsoft's browser has steadily lost ground to its competitors in the past year, with most of the drop coming from slippage by Internet Explorer 6. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10154447-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/ A Seismic Shift: IPv4 Numbers Becoming Transferable and Consequently Property, CircleID Catching the precise moment of a tectonic shift in a global system as large and important as the Internet may be viewed as an exercise in the improbable. However, I point out in this summary that I think we are precisely in the midst of such a shift. The largest portion of this March 2009 COOK Report issue is approximately 20,000 words of http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090202_ipv4_numbers_transferable_property/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ip.htm IPv6? the Internet Dragon Stirred Under Its Shell, CircleID At Cisco Networkers in Barcelona earlier this week, some of us saw a dragon try to wiggle out of its shell, provided you connected in IPv6 that is. A smile to Kame, the turtle which only danced under a IPv6 caress. http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090202_ipv6_internet_dragon_stirred_shell/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm Comcast Offers $10 Credits For Porn Fiasco - Probably won't be enough to get junior therapy..., dslreports Comcast has apparently assigned a damage value for those customers who accidentally saw genitalia instead of Kurt Warner over the weekend, the Tuscon Citizen saying the company will dole out $10 credits to customers who witnessed the accidentally broadcast Superbowl porn. "While this credit won't change what happened, we hope that it http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Offers-10-Credits-For-Porn-Fiasco-100621 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/comcast.htm Google's flub: Do we have a Web monoculture too?, CNET Search giant had a rough weekend, with human error causing it to list the entire Web as malware for an hour or so. The screw-up raises issues about the risk of having a monoculture dependent on any one tech supplier. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10154384-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/google.htm Google warns entire Internet is malware, CNET For about an hour Saturday morning, Google listed every site on the Internet as potentially harmful to your computer. At first, Google blamed the problem on StopBadware.org but later had to eat crow. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10153942-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/google.htm Kiwis get strict copyright, three-strikes law at month's end, Ars Technica "It is a strange fate we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing," says Boromir in the recent movie adaptation of the Lord of the Rings. The scene, shot in New Zealand, might pop into the minds of many Kiwis these days, as one tiny legislative change to copyright law is poised to bring "graduated response" (or "three strikes") rules http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/02/kiwis-get-strict-copyright-three-strikes-law-at-months-end.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm Parody Website Back Online After Settlement of Bogus IP Claims, EFF An activist was able to relaunch her online campaign today after claims were settled out of court for the shutting down of her website challenging redevelopment efforts in New York City's historic Union Square. http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/02/02 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm EU Proposal Would Outright Ban BitTorrent Sites, Make ISPs Copyright Cops & Use 3 Strikes, Techdirt You have to give the entertainment industry lobbyists credit for one thing: they never give up. When one of their proposals gets slapped down they always have many other efforts underway to give a similar proposal life somewhere else. So what if the EU Parliament said that using a three strikes policy went against basic civil rights? Just get another http://techdirt.com/articles/20090201/2216223594.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/p2p.htm Telecom-delivered TV subscriptions to triple by '12, CNET Worldwide subscriptions are expected to grow threefold, despite a challenging economy, as telecoms increasingly compete with cable and satellite, according to a new report. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10154407-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ House Likely to Keep Analog TV Signals Alive for Four More Months, Ecommerce Times Congress is going to take another crack at delaying the analog TV shutdown by four months. The House is expected to take a second run this week at a bill that would give consumers more time to prepare for the transition from analog to digital http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/66037.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/dtv.htm White House Sees Win Ahead on DTV Delay, Internet News Despite a failed vote last week, supporters of postponing the digital TV transition expect approval soon. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/BUZMy8mthyI/3800086 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/dtv.htm Learning from the past, Spectrum Talk I attended Comm. McDowell's talk to the FCBA yesterday as it marked a welcome change from the ancienne regime. In his talk Comm. 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Mark Twain Sex offender arrested for violating parole on MySpace, CNET Texas man is just the latest of about 30 convicted sex offenders arrested to date by state authorities for allegedly accessing MySpace in violation of parole conditions. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10157193-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Is Your ISP Is Throttling Your Internet Service?, CW Is the speed of your company's Internet connection being throttled back by your ISP? Unless you're using a cable modem for your business Internet connection--and have Comcast or Cox as the provider--probably not. But, wouldn't you like to know, just to be sure? http://feeds.computerworld.com/click.phdo?i=6fbeb599d1802774386a42eb7e6500bc More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm Comcast defends itself against FCC's VoIP probe, Ars Technica The Federal Communications Commission's main sparring partner in the realm of network management has sent the agency a polite but chilly refutation of its suggestion that the company may allow its own VoIP service an advantage over others running through its pipes. Comcast says that the ISP giant doesn't give its Digital Voice product (CDV) http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2009/02/comcast-strikes-back-on-fcc-voip-probe.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralfcc.htm Vuze calls for FCC probe of Cox Cable traffic management, Ars Technica Here we go again... maybe. The media company that petitioned the Federal Communications Commission for an investigation of Comcast's peer-to-peer throttling practices is on the warpath once more. This time Vuze has set its sights on Cox Cable, which has made itself a pretty obvious target with its announcement in late January that it will http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2009/02/vuze-calls-for-fcc-probe-of-cox-cable-traffic-management.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm Exclusive: Charter Implementing New Caps - 100GB for 15Mbps or less, 250 for 15Mbps or more; not strictly enforced at first, dslreports Broadband Reports has learned that Charter will be updating their acceptable use policy (AUP) next week, setting the stage for clear usage caps and potential overage fees. A source familiar with the plans tells us Charter will be imposing a 100GB cap upon any Charter connection of 15Mbps or less, and a 250GB usage cap for broadband tiers "over 15 http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Exclusive-Charter-Implementing-New-Caps-100637 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/charter.htm Comcast Techs Save 88-Year-Old From Burning Home - Traditionally bad press recently turns to good press..., dslreports Sure, Comcast has been in the news a lot for falling asleep, murder, digging in the wrong yard, blowing up laptops, dishwashers and homes (with people in them), driving vans into children, and even kitten torture. But lately, the carrier's employees and subcontractors have been in the news a lot for saving lives. Back in December, a Comcast http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Techs-Save-88YearOld-From-Burning-Home-100698 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/comcast.htm Time Warner Cable reports subscriber dip, CNET Competition among TV service providers heats up as Time Warner sees slowing subscriber growth. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10156468-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/tw.htm Citing Write-Down, Time Warner Posts Loss and Forecasts Flat Year, NYT The media company reported a fourth-quarter loss, hurt by a $24.2 billion write-down for its cable, publishing and AOL assets. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/business/05warner.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/tw.htm Ridiculous Criminal Trial Of Google Execs Begins In Italy, Techdirt eWeek has a report noting that the ridiculous criminal trial of four Google executives in Italy is starting this week, with the surprise news that one of the execs in question, Google's Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer, is expected to appear. The eWeek report oddly credits the news of the trial to the International Association of Privacy Professionals, http://techdirt.com/articles/20090202/2310143614.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/europe.htm Google execs facing Italian judges over teen beating video (updated), Ars Technica The IAPP has updated its ongoing story about the case and says that the judge hearing the case has suspended making a decision until February 18. The postponement was due to procedural issues, which the IAPP says is common. Aside from Google's Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer, the other Google executives being http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/02/google-execs-face-criminal-charges-in-italy-over-2006-video.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/europe.htm Obama DOJ pick: RIAA lawyer who killed Grokster, Copyright President's latest pick for a senior Justice Department post is Donald Verrilli, the lawyer who pulled the plug on Grokster, sued Google on behalf of Viacom, and represented the RIAA in a file-sharing case against Jammie Thomas. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10157381-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm EFF Chastises YouTube, Seeks Fair Users, PK Last week, we were reminded of the DMCA's potential for abuse when film critic Kevin B. Lee's video essays were removed from YouTube as the result of a DMCA takedown notice. In the ensuing analysis, we noted that our friends at the EFF, among others, were working to address a related issue: a provision in the DMCA that prevents film critics and http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/531987428/1976 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/dmca.htm How Harvard Law threw down the gauntlet to the RIAA, Ars Technica In retrospect, Harvard's eventual involvement was obvious. As far back as 2007, we noted that RIAA prelitigation letters had yet to be sent to Harvard, and one reason for that may have been the quite public opposition of Harvard Law School to the entire RIAA legal campaign. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/02/tell-the-riaa-to-take-a-hike-how-harvard-law-threw-down-the-gauntlet.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/p2p.htm NTIA Welcomes Congressional DTV Action, NTIA The Commerce Department?s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today welcomed the additional time to assist America's switch to digital broadcasting afforded by the House's and Senate's passage of the "DTV Delay Act." This measure allows full-power television stations to continue analog broadcasts past the current http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press/2009/DTV_Delay_090205.htm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/dtv.htm Switch to Digital TV Wins a Delay to June 12, NYT Television owners will have four more months to upgrade old sets before they will no longer receive analog signals. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/business/media/05digital.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/dtv.htm Congress approves delay of digital-TV transition, CNET The House of Representatives votes to delay the national transition to digital broadcasting. The bill now awaits the president's signature. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10156931-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/dtv.htm DTV delay passes, 264-158, Ars Technica The House of Representatives on Wednesday afternoon passed legislation to delay the transition to digital television and the cessation of analog broadcast, by a largely party-line vote of 264 to 158. The transition, previously scheduled for February 17, will be pushed back 115 days to June 12 once President Obama signs the bill, as he is expected to. http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2009/02/dtv-delay-passes-264-158.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/dtv.htm Congress Delays Digital TV Transition: Everyone Loses!, Techdirt We were a bit surprised when the House rejected a plan unanimously approved by the Senate to delay the transition from analog to digital over the air TV broadcasting from February to June of this year. However, we knew it couldn't last. A little horse-trading and favor-promising and the new bill has won approval from both parts of Congress with http://techdirt.com/articles/20090204/1712143647.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/dtv.htm Republican Nominees for FCC, Tech Lib Front Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Commerce Ranking Member Kay Bailey Hutchison, I hear, have received approximately one dozen recommendations for filling the vacant seat on the FCC which, by law, must be filled by a Republican. Although the president will make the appointment, the views of the Senate Republican Leader, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techliberation/~3/gLE6k5u8Hew/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc1.htm DHS Privacy Committee - A Little More Notice This Time, Tech Lib Front The DHS Privacy Committee will be meeting in Washington, D.C. - well Arlington, VA, actually - on February 26th. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techliberation/~3/8btP5NFRfn8/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/ A New Internet Attack: Parking Tickets, CW Trojan-pushing parking tickets? Yes, really. The Internet Storm Center, which tracks Internet attacks and threats, documented a case in Grand Forks, North Dakota where someone put yellow fliers on cars that claimed to ticket a parking violation. The fliers named a Web site that purportedly had pictures of your supposed violation. http://feeds.computerworld.com/click.phdo?i=af81c8e73bd40949cb3063f8dbfe7204 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. 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People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. - Franklin D. Roosevelt Understanding What The Broadband Stimulus Does, and What It Doesn't Try To do., Tales from the Sausage Factory Not unsurprisingly, we have considerable debate on the merits of the broadband stimulus package, even leaving aside the network neutrality provisions. They range from this NYT article suggesting that building out in rural is a waste and won't cre... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1458 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/ After Five Years Of Fighting, Lafayette Gets Their Fiber - Symmetrical 10Mbps($28.94), 30Mbps($44.95) and 50Mbps ($57.95), dslreports We've been tracking the deployment of municipally-owned fiber in Lafayette, Louisiana for years, the project being particularly notable for some of the sleazy efforts made by Cox and AT&T (then SBC) to kill it. Those efforts, back in 2005, included everything from hinting at exporting local support jobs if the deal was approved, to hiring push pollsters http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/After-Five-Years-Of-Fighting-Lafayette-Gets-Their-Fiber-100724 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/muni.htm CRS Reports ?Set Free? by Wikileaks, CDT Over the weekend Wikileaks.org released thousands of Congressional Research Reports that have not been on the Internet in the past. It also seems that Wikileaks now has found a source to get all new and updated reports. http://blog.cdt.org/2009/02/09/crs-reports-set-free-by-wikileaks/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/ Earthlink Lives. Sort Of. - Company now profitable, but future in doubt, dslreports Earthlink released their fourth quarter earnings last week, posting a yearly profit of $189.6 million in 2008. However, Earthlink recently lost $80 million on Muni-Fi, their investments in broadband over powerline (BPL) have gone nowhere, the government says they can't share access to next-generation broadband networks, and their effort to run an MVNO http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Earthlink-Lives-Sort-Of-100763 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/earthlink.htm Qwest Cut 1,700 Jobs - As carrier struggles with continued landline losses..., dslreports After announcing plans to cut 1,200 jobs during the fourth quarter, Qwest's fourth quarter earnings beat analyst estimates, though the numbers indicate they wound up cutting 1,700 jobs in total. The carrier's fourth-quarter net income still dropped 49.5%, primarily due to the continued death of the landline. While Qwest landlines dropped 9.6% http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Qwest-Cut-1700-Jobs-100777 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/qwest.htm FiOS Finally Coming To Philly - City unanimously approves citywide franchise, dslreports Comcast recently managed to delay Verizon's deployment of FiOS in their home town of Philadelphia by complaining to the Philly city council about issues the cable giant likely cares nothing about -- namely that Verizon's entry into the city market wouldn't lower cable TV prices, and that the telco would cherry pick the most profitable customers. In the http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FiOS-Finally-Coming-To-Philly-100719 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/verizon.htm what percentage of traffic on the Internet is peer-to-peer file sharing?, Best Available Sources I get this question as often as I get any question about the Internet. finally, a visiting intern Mia Zhang from Beijing Jiaotung University has done a thorough literature roundup, extracting the best available data pertinent to this question that she could find in the public domain. http://blog.caida.org/best_available_data/2009/02/08/what-percentage-of-traffic-on-the-internet-is-peer-to-peer-file-sharing/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/p2p.htm FCC's Adelstein: DTV Transition "Not Ready For Prime Time", Consumer Affairs Commissioner urges quick action even with reset deadline http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2009/02/dtv_delay05.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/dtv.htm FCC Beats NTIA on DTV Website Revamp, Spectrum Talk In my previous post I speculated on how long it would take FCC to update its website to reflect the change in DTV transition. A poster suggested June 13th! http://spectrumtalk.blogspot.com/2009/02/fcc-beats-ntia-in-updating-website-on.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/dtv.htm Despite Delay for DTV, FCC Concerns Remain, Wash Post A day after Congress delayed the nation's transition to all-digital broadcasts, the Federal Communications Commission is grappling with how it will handle calls from confused consumers, broadcasters who want to move ahead early and the possibility that millions of Americans still could be left be... http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/technology/index_xml/~3/zug6sAWOoZY/AR2009020503188.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/dtv.htm DTV Extension: It Ain't Over 'Til The Paperwork's . . ., CommLawBlog Almost immediately after the House finally passed the DTV Delay Act with its do-over vote on Wednesday, February 4, the Commission hustled out a new set of DTV transition procedures (on February 5), some of which require broadcaster action as early as http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/CommLawBlog/~3/535666359/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/dtv.htm Papers considering charging for content (again), Lost Remote Time Magazine?s cover story this week splashes the title, ?How to save your newspaper.? (The more appropriate title would be, ?How to reinvent your newspaper,? as current newspapers operate on an outdated business model as well as are regarded by a significant majority of their readers to fall short in providing relevant local coverage and community.) http://www.lostremote.com/2009/02/07/newspapers-considering-charging-for-content/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm Privacy group calls Google Latitude a 'danger' to security, CW A British privacy group is criticizing Google's new Latitude mapping application as a threat to user privacy and security. http://feeds.computerworld.com/click.phdo?i=76fff5ce1f9f208c124c991de981f381 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/ FAQ: How Google Latitude locates you, CW The new Google Latitude service uses a combination of wireless technologies to pinpoint your location, often with a surprising degree of accuracy. Here's how. http://feeds.computerworld.com/click.phdo?i=f56bbcc71506c5595ebced40b08679e8 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/ AFOTEC announces mission realignment, AFCC The Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center has begun realigning its mission capability to support cyber operations. This realignment will shift about 70 personnel during the next 18 months from Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., to three other AFOTEC Detachments located in California, Colorado and Florida. http://www.afcyber.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123134581 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/cyberwar.htm Obama hints at cybersecurity shake-up with review, CNET Announcement that a cybersecurity official will conduct a two-month review of cybersecurity efforts may indicate authority will shift from the Department of Homeland Security to the White House. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10159975-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dhs.htm Obama begins cybersecurity review, BBC A 60-day review of how well the US copes with relentless cyberattacks has been kicked off by Obama's security chief. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/7880695.stm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dhs.htm Hathaway to Head US Cybersecurity Effort, CircleID President Barack Obama will tap a top aide to President George W. Bush's intelligence director to head his cybersecurity effort, according to government officials familiar with the decision. An announcement is expected as early as Monday. http://www.circleid.com/posts/hathaway_head_us_cybersecurity_effort/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dhs.htm State Attorneys General Trash Internet Safety Study, But Still Can't Provide Data To Counter It, Techdirt Last month, a wide-ranging panel of experts did a big study and found out that the risks of online predators stalking kids on social networks was totally overhyped -- something that we'd seen in previous studies, though none as wide-ranging and comprehensive. 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While I do not have any details yet, all indications are that the language was not included. http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=11563 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/ Let's Be Clear: ISPs Don't Want Accurate Public Broadband Data - They want public data that paints a rosy picture & keeps government at bay..., dslreports New York Times tech columnist Saul Hansell, who only a few weeks ago called broadband coverage gaps "hooey," pens a piece today reminding us that $350 million of the broadband stimulus package passed yesterday will go toward mapping broadband coverage. That's incredibly important, since we have absolutely no idea who has broadband. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Lets-Be-Clear-ISPs-Dont-Want-Accurate-Public-Broadband-Data-100815 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/706.htm U.S., Russian satellites collide, CW A commercial Iridium communications satellite and decommissioned Russian satellite have been destroyed after an unprecedented collision in space. http://feeds.computerworld.com/click.phdo?i=aa61981e40c9b875f040bf1bff5f15bd More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/satellite.htm Safer social networking and self regulation, Google Although there are European laws in place to protect online users (remember, if an act is illegal offline it's illegal online also), legislative processes can be time consuming and have the potential to be out of date before they can be enforced. That's why self-regulation is a crucial tool for industry be able react quickly to immediate policy needs. We http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GooglePublicPolicyBlog/~3/u9nUATfn4Tg/safer-social-networking-and-self.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Content Filtering Kept Out of Broadband Stimulus, At Least for Now, CDT Yesterday?s Senate passage of its version of the big economic stimulus bill sets the stage for final negotiations between the House and Senate to come up with a final bill. As is often the case with major packages of legislation, there?s a risk of eleventh-hour additions for which the policy implications have not been clearly thought out. http://blog.cdt.org/2009/02/11/content-filtering-kept-out-of-broadband-stimulus-at-least-for-now/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm Google surges in U.S. search engine rankings, CNET The company solidifies its lead in the U.S. search market in January, capturing 62.8 percent share last month, according to Nielsen Online. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10161418-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/ U.S. Government Misses DNSSEC Deployment Deadline, CircleID The U.S. federal government has missed its initial deadline for rolling out DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) on its .gov top-level domain. Federal officials now say they will cryptographically sign .gov by the end of February, one month behind their original schedule. http://www.circleid.com/posts/us_government_misses_dnssec_deployment_deadline/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/dnssecurity.htm Measuring the use of IPv4 space with Heatmaps, CAIDA To visualize the use of IPv4 Internet address space, we create heatmaps that use intensity of color (heat) to show the use of addresses belonging to the same network. These heatmaps also make use of a fractal mapping technique that describes a space-fitting curve. This technique, most recently popularized by Randall Munroe's xkcd #195, John http://www.caida.org/research/traffic-analysis/arin-heatmaps/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm Does the Authors Guild Want to Sue You for Reading Aloud to Your Kids?, EFF The Wall Street Journal yesterday reported that the Authors Guild is up in arms over a feature of the new Amazon Kindle 2 that reads e-books aloud using a text-to-speech algorithm. According to Authors Guild executive director Paul Aiken, "They don't have the right to read a book out loud." Why not? According to Aiken, when a book is read aloud by http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/02/does-authors-guild-want-sue-you-reading-aloud-your More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm TV Stations Say Thanks, But No Thanks To Analog Switch Delay, Techdirt As was widely expected, Congress voted last week to delay the switch-off of analog TV signals, sort of. It did move the hard deadline of February 17 until June 12, but it is also allowing TV stations to switch off their analog broadcasts any time before then, and many stations say they'll do so as soon as they can, beginning next week. Over a third of the http://techdirt.com/articles/20090211/1532203737.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/dtv.htm DTV Transition Extension - June 12 is Now THE Date, CommLawBlog Word has just arrived that President Obama has signed the DTV Delay Act into law. That makes it official: the national DTV transition date has moved from February 17 to June 12. In case you've been stuck in a cave for the last couple of weeks, see our earlier posts (e.g., here and http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/CommLawBlog/~3/537648228/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/dtv.htm NYT: Internet dooms most media? but not TV, Lost Remote With all the doom and gloom about the end of the old-media world, the New York Times notes that there?s one media that is still thriving: TV. Newspapers are drying up ? books aren?t selling ? and people are spending more and more time online. But they?re also still watching TV ? in record amounts in fact. ?People are showing a clear preference for http://www.lostremote.com/2009/02/10/nyt-tv-stands-out-as-one-old-media-with-resiliance/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/meida/ Judge Seeks Further Briefing on Constitutionality of Telecom Immunity, EFF Today Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the Northern District of California federal court asked for further briefing on a key constitutional question in the litigations brought against AT&T and the other telecommunications carriers for their involvement in the NSA's warrantless wiretapping. The Court noted that the FISA Amendments Act, the law passed by http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/02/judge-seeks-further-briefing-constitutionality-tel More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/fisa.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 Wed Feb 18 18:28:25 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:28:25 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 2.18 :: Jackass :: Underwhelming :: Day or Reckoning :: Hard to Find, Get and Cancel :: Time to Regulate Online Content :: Go Jump in a Lake :: Message-ID: <423256.34600.qm@web37904.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ Things do come to those who wait, but only things left over from those that hustle. - Abraham Lincoln Connected Nation Takes Aim At Stimulus Broadband Mapping; Rural Areas Could Be Hurt, PK The new stimulus package just signed by President Obama has $350 million in it for broadband mapping, yet even before the bill was signed, the danger warnings for this program are glaringly obvious: Who will control the information on broadband deployment? If the program is done correctly, then the program may bring some benefits http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/542045714/1998 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/ Court Tosses Challenge to "Opt-in" Requirement for CPNI Disclosure, CommLawBlog The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has issued a decision upholding the Commission?s 2007 Order relating to the necessary mechanism for obtaining customer approval for release of customer proprietary network information (?CPNI?). That mechanism imposes greater burdens on carriers than had been the case prior to 2007. http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/CommLawBlog/~3/541253542/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/cpni.htm Frontier DSL Stands By Its Caps... Even As It Decreases Broadband Speeds, Techdirt Frontier Communications last year was a big supporter of capping broadband usage at 5gigs (both up and down). The company is still hyping this up, claiming "It is important that customers that use less don't subsidize those that use the most." That sounds nice, and we'll be hearing that a lot from various broadband providers over the next few http://techdirt.com/articles/20090216/1809543787.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/tiers.htm Active Home Internet Users by Country, November 2008, Clickz Active home Internet users increased in all but one country tracked. http://feeds.clickz.com/~r/clickzstats/~3/538942968/showPage.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/ WIPO: Jackass.com owner a real jackass, but can keep domain, Ars Technica The World Intellectual Property Organization has the thankless job of overseeing Internet domain name disputes, but few can have been as surreal as the just-concluded case brought by US media giant Viacom. The company sought control of jackass.com from a "serial http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/02/wipo-jackasscom-an-owner-a-real-jackass-but-can-keep-site.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ Advocates Blast FTC Guidelines on Web Privacy, Internet News Agency refreshes self-regulatory best practices for behavioral targeting as privacy advocates call for tougher stance. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/Q4jyhk90e5Y/3802806 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/advertising.htm FTC's behavioral ad regulations are underwhelming, CW The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently published a somewhat tweaked set of self-regulation guidelines for companies collecting information on the actions of Internet users for the purpose of providing advertising to those users. I expect the FTC does not feel it has the authority to make any binding rules without Congressional action. http://feeds.computerworld.com/click.phdo?i=0e66ab51f82cba3c02e7734e1832b9aa More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/advertising.htm Congressman, privacy groups challenge FTC Web-ad policy, CNET A government regulatory agency said Thursday that it will continue to push for better self-regulation of online behavioral advertising, but privacy advocates--as well as a key congressman who plans to introduce data collection legislation soon--say self-regulation will not sufficiently protect consumers. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10163062-38.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-PoliticsandLaw More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/advertising.htm Reaction to the FTC's advertising privacy principles, Google For the last year or so, the Federal Trade Commission has been looking at privacy questions surrounding online behavioral advertising. We've been pleased to be a part of that process, including testifying at the FTC's 2007 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GooglePublicPolicyBlog/~3/KTXVq2QzPn4/reaction-to-ftcs-advertising-privacy.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/advertising.htm FTC warns of "day of reckoning" for online advertisers, Ars Technica Federal Trade Commissioner Jon Leibowitz doesn't look the part of the locust-eating prophet in goatskins, but today he waxed positively biblical in his words to online behavioral advertisers. "A day of reckoning may be fast approaching," he warned darkly. And he suggested that the FTC may http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/02/ftc-warns-of-day-of-reckoning-for-online-advertisers.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/advertising.htm FTC Issues Behavioral Advertising Guidelines, CDT The Federal Trade Commission today issued a report outlining self-regulatory guidelines for the online advertising industry. CDT sees the release of the guidelines, which set a higher standard than existing industry principles, as a signal that companies are running out of time to step up their self-regulatory efforts. Although the FTC report raises http://www.cdt.org/headlines/1193 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/advertising.htm AT&T Dry Loop DSL Hard To Find, Get And Cancel - First it was hard to get. Now it's hard to get rid of., dslreports As part of AT&T's merger conditions (pdf) when they acquired Bellsouth, they were forced to offer 768kbps DSL for $10. To (kind of) keep their promise, AT&T now offers the tier, but they don't tell anyone it's available. For a long time, the same could be said of dry loop (naked) DSL, also required as a merger condition, and equally hard to find http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Dry-Loop-DSL-Hard-To-Find-Get-And-Cancel-100952 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att.htm As Earnings Drop 32%, Comcast Raises Dividend, NYT The cable company also took a $600 million write-down on Clearwire, the wireless technology provider. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/business/19comcast.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/comcast.htm Comcast Nixes Executive Raises For 2009 - Joins a slew of carriers in trying to manage recession..., dslreports We previously reported that higher level executives at both Time Warner Cable and AT&T won't be seeing raises this year, as the company's try to manage the recession, slowing broadband subscriber additions, and the credit markets. According to filings with the Security and Exchange Commission, top executives at Comcast also won't http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Nixes-Executive-Raises-For-2009-100919 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/comcast.htm Comcast Struggles With Subscriber Additions - Though met or exceeded most Wall Street estimates..., dslreports Comcast issued their fourth quarter earnings this morning, showing that the cable giant took a slight hit from the stumbling economy. Comcast added 247,000 digital cable subscribers in Q4, down from the 530,000 added in the fourth quarter last year. It added 184,000 high-speed Internet customers, down from last year's 341,000, and it http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Struggles-With-Subscriber-Additions-100949 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/comcast.htm Verizon To Finally Crack Down On Spam - After years on Spamhaus top ten list..., dslreports Spamhaus has long kept a list of the top ten most spam-laden networks. Many of the list's ISPs are regular fixtures because they've decided to save money by ignoring the problem of infected botnets on their network. Verizon has traditionally been a frequent mainstay on the list (which changes daily), and according to Spamhaus, hosts the most http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-To-Finally-Crack-Down-On-Spam-100933 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/verizon.htm Time to regulate online content, cultural groups tell CRTC, Globe and Mail Say it's time to make sure Canadian content doesn't get squeezed out by mountains of material from around the world http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheGlobeAndMail-Technology/~3/rtoVrTOsUUY/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/ South African Athorities Hate Digital Inclusion: Confiscate Equipment from Village Telco., Sascha I just received word from my colleague, Vickram Crishna, over at the Village Telco project that South African athorities have confiscated their wireless equipment. Apparently, digital inclusion work is so threatening to their regulatory agency and telecom incumbent that they're more than willing to use police force to stop the spread of connectivity. http://saschameinrath.com/2009/feb/18/south_african_athorities_hate_digital_inclusion_confiscate_equipment_village_telco More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/ Facebook Withdraws Changes in Data Use, NYT After a wave of protests, Facebook said it would withdraw changes to its terms of service concerning the data supplied by users. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/technology/internet/19facebook.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm Are Facebook's outraged users getting a wake-up call?, CW After outraged users hammered Facebook for changing its terms of use to seemingly give the company vast control over users' content, analysts said the dust-up could serve as a lesson for people to think before they post. http://feeds.computerworld.com/click.phdo?i=f9ec80d26c02b8d2acf984765d7c7018 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm Research Paper Shows How Useless It Is To Require ISPs To Be Copyright Cops, Techdirt A bunch of folks have been sending in the link to Boing Boing's report about a new research paper highlighting just how useless, ineffective and damaging it will be if governments or the entertainment industry force ISPs to start trying to crack down on file sharing. The researchers make a pretty compelling case (though, certainly, I was inclined http://techdirt.com/articles/20090218/0233063814.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm Shame on you, Facebook, for overreaching, Internet Cases Facebook, I hereby grant to you an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use the following content: ?Go jump in a lake.? http://blog.internetcases.com/2009/02/17/shame-on-you-facebook-for-overreaching/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm Rodeo group to pay $25,000 for YouTube takedown requests, CNET A rodeo association has agreed to pay $25,000 to an animal welfare group to settle a lawsuit over the improper removal of videos from YouTube that showed roped calves being dragged off to die and tasers being used on tame horses to get them to buck. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10163337-93.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-PoliticsandLaw More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/dmca.htm Stalled Switch to Digital TV A Classic Tale of Breakdown, Wash Post The nation's switch to all-digital broadcasts has been more than a decade in the making. The federal government has spent nearly $2 billion to help people prepare. Broadcasters spent another $1.2 billion to run warning ads and millions more to upgrade equipment. Until last week, the United States... http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/technology/index_xml/~3/8sQbFGigbag/AR2009021303504.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/dtv.htm 40 percent of stations are now DTV only, Lost Remote Today is the long-awaited, much-promoted, highly-debated DTV switchover date. Or it was until Congress moved the official date to June 12th to give Americans more time to prepare their TV sets. Regardless, about 40 percent of the nation?s TV stations ? 681 of them ? have made the switch to digital. Most of those are in small to mid-sized http://www.lostremote.com/2009/02/17/40-percent-of-stations-are-now-dtv-only/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/dtv.htm Corrupt Judges Sent Kid Who Made Spoof MySpace Pages To Detention... For Profit, Techdirt We've covered a few different cases involving students suspended from school for creating fake social networking profiles of teachers or school administrators. There was even one time we wrote about a principal taking a student to court over a fake MySpace profile (he lost). However, we hadn't heard of kids actually being sent to juvenile http://techdirt.com/articles/20090218/0250553816.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/crime.htm Fugitive hacker indicted for running VoIP scam, CW A federal grand jury has indicted a Miami man for allegedly hacking into and stealing time on networks of VoIP services companies. http://feeds.computerworld.com/click.phdo?i=c8f84b8141389d3e60289714a6b57126 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/ EFF Re-Launches Legal Guide for Bloggers, EFF It has been almost four years since EFF first published our Legal Guide for Bloggers to help bloggers understand their rights and, when necessary, defend their freedom of expression. In that time, blogging has become more widespread, and more and more people need a better understanding of the laws surrounding blogging. Not a day goes by in which we do not help someone with a reference to the Legal Guide. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/02/eff-re-launches-legal-guide-bloggers 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 Feb 24 08:15:58 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:15:58 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 2.24.9 :: We are #1!!!!!? :: BPL Lives :: The King is Dead :: Linking Litigation Dies :: Man Shoots TV :: Stroke Victim Lives :: Message-ID: <928560.62351.qm@web37908.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895 Qwest: $1 Billion Would Provide 95% DSL Coverage - Carrier continues to complain about $7 billion plan..., dslreports Qwest last week claimed that it would cost them $3 billion to get 7 Mbps broadband service available to 95% percent of its current footprint. That's of course first-generation DSL, providing even deployment of their 12Mbps & 20Mbps ADSL2+ service would cost substantially more. Qwest has been lobbying a long time for a stimulus plan that would http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Qwest-1-Billion-Would-Provide-95-DSL-Coverage-101048 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/dsl.htm BPL Lives On, Again, Techdirt Broadband over powerline has gotten lots and lots of attention and investment over the past decade or so, but remains little more than a black hole of hype. Every once in a while, a story comes along to remind us that despite its near-total lack of traction, BPL abides. Now it could apparently be in line to get some money from the economic stimulus bill. http://techdirt.com/articles/20090220/0916293842.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/power.htm The King is Dead, Long Live the King: 802.11n dramatically improves Wi-Fi outdoors, Muni IEEE 802.11n is the new international standard for wireless Local Area Networks, incorporating new smart antenna technologies (MIMO - Multiple In and Multiple Out) permitting a 5x performance and 2x coverage improvement for WLANs. While this new technology is becoming the de facto standard in consumer and enterprise networks, it has not http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/ciOMPahy2AM/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wifi.htm FCC Hammers Slammer Jammer, CommLawBlog Never mind the personal jet packs. We just want a little gadget in our pocket with a pushbutton on it, so when the teenager behind us in line at the post office ? or worse, sitting next to us on a long and crowded commuter train ride ? whips out her cell http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/CommLawBlog/~3/s8i1w_XC4k4/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm New Broadband Report Hypes Quality, not Quantity of Connections, Tech Lib Front According to a new connectivity scorecard created by Leonard Waverman of the London Business School, it?s not the pure size of connections that matter, er, it?s how we use our broadband that really matters. As a result, Americans are more ?connected? than we think. We come out #1 (followed by Sweden and Denmark). The report differs from typical http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techliberation/~3/WVFtQMYuB6c/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm Broadband woes aside, US tops the world in "connectivity", Ars Technica The New York Times has strangely discovered that "Surprise: America is No. 1 in Broadband" by parsing a report that a) isn't actually measuring broadband and that b) came to the same conclusion back in 2008. The http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/02/us-tops-the-world-in-connectivity.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm We're #1 In Broadband (Sort Of) - Assuming you look at completely irrelevant data like SMS use...., dslreports The US currently ranks fifteenth in penetration, thirteenth in average price per connection, and nineteenth in average advertised download speed, according to OECD data. Still, the New York Times says we're actually "number one in broadband," assuming you look at the Nokia-funded Connectivity Scorecard, which measures technology use and http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Were-1-In-Broadband-Sort-Of-101021 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm Jones Day Abuses Trademark Law And Gets Its Way: Bullies Blockshopper Into Caving, Techdirt Somehow we missed this news last week, but Consumerist alerts us to the very upsetting news that BlockShopper was forced to cave in and settle the absolutely ridiculous lawsuit filed against it by Jones Day. The lawsuit was a clear abuse of trademark law designed to silence a small company, and it looks like the judge did everything possible to help http://techdirt.com/articles/20090219/0013353822.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/link.htm New Internet Study Finds Web and Streaming Higher Than P2P Traffic, CircleID ipoque, a European deep packet inspection hardware provider has published an Internet study for 2008/2009 providing an overview of the Internet's current state based on analyzing 1.3 petabytes of Internet traffic?"the amount of data equal to 300,000 DVDs"?in eight regions of the world (Northern Africa, Southern Africa, South America, Middle East, http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090219_internet_study_web_streaming_higher_than_p2p/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/p2p.htm Man Shoots TV Over DTV Transition - Though transition went pretty well for everyone else..., dslreports Apparently we spoke to soon yesterday when we noted that almost 400 of the nation's 1,800 TV stations managed the transition to digital broadcasts without many customers problems. User uid://625141 writes in to note that the transition did apparently annoy Walter Hoover of Joplin, MO, who decided to fight back by shooting his television. Several times. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Man-Shoots-TV-Over-DTV-Transition-100997 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/dtv.htm Obama picks Leibowitz as FTC chairman, CNET President Obama plans to appoint current Federal Trade Commission member Jon Leibowitz to lead the agency, which partially enforces antitrust laws and has taken a recent interest in online advertising. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10170214-38.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-PoliticsandLaw More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/ftc.htm ACLU vs DOJ on the implications of FISA Court ruling, Ars Technica Last month, I wrote about the rare public release of a ruling by the secret Foreign Intelligence Court of Review, which upheld the (now defunct) Protect America Act against an as-applied challenge and, for the first time, explicitly recognized a foreign intelligence exception to the Fourth http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/02/aclu-vs-doj-on-the-implications-of-fisa-court-ruling.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/fisa.htm ISPs worry that Net safety bills would outlaw e-mail, CNET Two new federal proposals that Republican supporters claim will protect children have alarmed Internet companies, who say the measures could make it a crime to provide e-mail. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10168704-38.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-PoliticsandLaw More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/email.htm Rural Broadband And Telemedicine Save Stroke Victims? Lives, Speed Matters Broadband saves lives -- at least according to a recent article in the USA Today. A two-way video and audio link -- made possible by rural broadband access -- saved the life of a woman experiencing a stroke. http://www.speedmatters.org/blog/rural-broadband.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/usf/dd.htm Will Rural Broadband Goose the Economy?, Ecommerce Times With the first concerted federal program to subsidize high-speed Internet services in rural areas, the new economic stimulus package will create some jobs and could get hundreds of thousands of households online. 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Winston Churchill Australia's Internet Censorship Plan Collapsing - Political support starting to waver for $125 million filter system..., dslreports Over the last few years, Australian lawmakers have been enamored with the idea of Internet filters, spending almost a hundred million on filtering technology that a teenager was able to circumnavigate in just a few minutes. The desire to erase all naughty bits from the 'Net culminated in a different, $125.8 million Cyber-Safety filtering system opposed by http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Australias-Internet-Censorship-Plan-Collapsing-101086 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/filters.htm NTIA Notice Online Safety Technology Working Group Clarification, Fed Reg NTIA The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is clarifying a notice published in the Federal Register on November 21, 2008 seeking nominations of individuals to represent the business community, public interest groups, and other appropriate groups interested in serving on the NTIA Online Safety and Technology Working Group (OSTWG). The 30 member limit applies only to private sector members of the OSTWG. The OSTWG membership will also include a certain number of Federal Government representatives as required by the Act. This notice does not reopen nominations for the OSTWG. http://www.ntia.doc.gov/frnotices/2009/clarificationforOSTWG_090224.pdf More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/reports.htm CPNI Certificate No-Shows Spanked For $20K Each, CommLawBlog Look out below! The Commission has lowered the boom on telecommunications carriers who apparently didn?t file their Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) certifications when they were supposed to last March. An ?Omnibus Notice of Apparent Liability? (ONAL) was issued http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/CommLawBlog/~3/oQWMyhIcXa4/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/cpni.htm Democratic House Delays Network Neutrality, OpenLeft With a new President in favor of network neutrality, the presumptive FCC chair in favor of network neutrality, with every new Democratic member of the Senate in favor network neutrality, with the new chair of the relevant senate subcommittee in favor of network neutrality, with Henry Waxman chairing the Energy and Commerce committee in the http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=11877 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm Net Neutrality: I told you so, Werblog Last summer, I criticized the FCC?s Comcast P2P decision for actually hurting the cause of network neutrality that it supposedly advanced. One of my arguments was that the FCC reviewing broadband discrimination complaints on a case-by-case basis would relieve the pressure in Congress for legislation. Looks like that?s what?s happening: http://werblog.com/2009/02/net-neutrality-i-told-you-so/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm A New Way to Look at U.S. Broadband ? As #1, Nextgenweb Recently, the New York Times Bits Blog found that the U.S. is actually number one in connectivity, based on two recent broadband studies. http://www.nextgenweb.org/studies/a-new-way-to-look-at-us-broadband-%e2%80%93-as-1 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm VeriSign: .Com, .Net to Adopt DNSSEC by 2011, CircleID VeriSign has promised to deploy DNSSEC across all of its top-level domains within two years. According to reports, '.com' will most likely be the last Top-Level Domain (TLD) to adopt DNSSEC due to the size of the zone. However it is anticipated that full implementation of DNSSEC will be complete across all TLDs in about 24 months. http://www.circleid.com/posts/verisign_com_net_domain_dnssec_by_2011/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/security.htm AT&T Wins Linkline Antitrust Suit - Supreme Court Unanimously Reverses Appeals Court, dslreports Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an antitrust case that claims AT&T (then SBC) engaged in anti-competitive behavior against smaller ISPs by charging too much for wholesale access to its network (frequently more than retail, making it nearly impossible to compete with them). The case began in 2003 when Linkline and several http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Wins-Linkline-Antitrust-Suit-101072 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att.htm Supreme Court Further Limits Antitrust Remedies for Carrier Pricing Complaints, Telefrieden No description http://telefrieden.blogspot.com/2009/02/supreme-court-further-limits-antitrust.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att.htm ISPCON No More - ISPs note the passing of industry mainstay, dslreports Sources at a number of smaller ISPs tell us that Jupiter Media has made the decision to no longer host or fund ISPCON, a yearly convention for ISPs, WISPs, and other Internet service companies. While we've confirmed the move with sources at Jupiter, details are scarce at the moment -- though additional information should be forthcoming http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ISPCON-No-More-101070 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/isp.htm China Shuts Down 'Unregistered' Websites, Techdirt You may recall a few years back that China started demanding that all websites register with the government for approval. We hadn't heard much about the program since then, but apparently the government has recently decided to shut down thousands of "unregistered" websites, mostly of small businesses. Considering the state of the economy http://techdirt.com/articles/20090225/0047383892.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/china.htm Thoughts on the Jones Day-BlockShopper Settlement, Citizen's Media Over at the Consumer Law & Policy Blog, Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen has an excellent post on the recent settlement of Jones Day's trademark lawsuit against real estate news site BlockShopper.com. In the lawsuit, Jones Day alleged that BlockShopper infringed and/or diluted its trademark by using the name "Jones Day" to identify two o http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenMediaLawProject/~3/FumpAafGcWw/thoughts-jones-day-blockshopper-settlement More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/link.htm If Paid Web Content Is Dead, Are Newspapers?, Internet News Commentary: Some papers look to online content to save the day, but fret that micropayments or a fully ad-supported newsroom won't pay the bills. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/xOfjnaTU-II/3806816 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ Is It Impossible For Hulu To Survive?, Techdirt We've pointed out in the past that you don't compete against piracy by being lame, and you have to give Hulu at least some kudus for doing its best early on not to be lame (despite plenty of expectations to the contrary). However, every time we've mentioned Hulu around here, we've noticed an awful lot of pissed off comments from users, who complain http://techdirt.com/articles/20090223/0055373860.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ No, The Death Of Newspapers Does Not Mean An Age Of Corruption, Techdirt A few folks have sent in Paul Starr's long but thoughtful article in The New Republic, which worries that, thanks to newspapers dying, we'll be entering a new age of corruption, since no one will be watching government officials like investigative reporters have in the past. The article is well worth reading, and brings up a number of interesting points -- http://techdirt.com/articles/20090225/0302243897.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ Copps: The ?Public Interest? Requires Regulation of the Internet!, Tech Lib Front Acting FCC Chairman Michael Copps declared yesterday in a speech celebrating the 75th anniversary of the FCC and the Communications Act, that it was time to think ?more rigorously? about the impact of the migration of communications to the Internet and ?how to ensure that as the Internet becomes our primary vehicle for communicating http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techliberation/~3/BU7mNMZsfJk/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm Obama Picks New FTC Boss, Former MPAA Lobbyist - Leibowitz will be more pro-consumer, will probably focus on privacy..., dslreports When it came to consumer issues like broadband, network neutrality or user privacy, the FTC in recent years has spent most of its time nodding dumbly at industry, allowing carriers, content and ad companies to "self-regulate" (code http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Obama-Picks-New-FTC-Boss-Former-MPAA-Lobbyist-101054 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/ftc.htm Time Warner Cable DNS Under DDoS Attack - Apparently there's some disgruntled zombies out there..., dslreports For much of the week, Roadrunner/Time Warner Cable customers in Southern California have been complaining about sluggish DNS performance in our forums. Time Warner Cable spokesman Jeff Simmermon (who you can follow on Twitter) has subsequently confirmed that the company's DNS servers in the region have been under DDoS attack fo http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Time-Warner-Cable-DNS-Under-DDoS-Attack-101092 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dos.htm NTIA Notice: Broadband Grant Programs Meetings, Fed Reg NTIA The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will begin holding meetings with interested parties on Monday, March 2, 2009, in connection with the broadband grant programs described in the Broadband Data Services Improvement Act and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (collectively, ??Broadband Grant Programs??). All interested parties are invited to schedule a meeting. http://www.ntia.doc.gov/frnotices/2009/clarificationforOSTWG_090224.pdf More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/usf/funding.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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~