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Fri Jan 30 07:25:07 PST 2009

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      Federal Internet Law and Policy
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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government. 
Franklin D. Roosevelt

House Expected to OK Billions for Broadband, Internet News
A House vote on the stimulus package is likely to fall along party lines, while Senate debate is seen as more conciliatory.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/KaXV1DC5wRk/3799161
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

House Republicans Continue to Stand Up For Principle Despite Self Interest or Common Sense. Go GOP!, Tales from the Sausage Factory
I am not entirely sure that a delay of the DTV transition is a good thing, but I know a political reality when I see it. With too many viewers likely to experience serious television viewing disruption, the smart politician takes some prudent ste...
http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1453
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

3G networks don't deliver speeds users expect, Gartner says, CW
The four major U.S. wireless carriers deliver slower 3G speeds than customers expect, according to research firm Gartner, which said it has received the most complaints about AT&T.
http://feeds.computerworld.com/click.phdo?i=6fa6189e136ccd03248309ca41fa6d8b
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/w3g.htm

Policy Point - Wireless Child Safety, CTIA
The wireless industry joins parents in their commitment to wireless child safety through initiatives such as the Wireless Child Safety Task Force and reinforcing responsible use tips. To learn more watch this segment from our January installment of our Wonder of Wireless webcast, and take a few moments to
http://www.ctia.org/blog/index.cfm/2009/1/27/Policy-Point--Wireless-Child-Safety
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm

Student Cleared Of Charges She Spammed Teachers At Her University, Techdirt
Back in December, we wrote about a student at Michigan State University, who was disciplined by the school for spamming, after she sent out an email to all of the professors at the school concerning a schedule change that would impact their class schedules in a future semester. One teacher complained, and the student was found to have violated the school's anti-spam policy, which said you couldn't email
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090128/1901243561.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm

New Google Tools Test ISP Traffic Discrimination - Latest salvo in network neutrality debate, dslreports
Google, in cooperation with academic researchers, the New America Foundation and the PlanetLab Consortium, have launched Measurement Lab (M-Lab). Measurement Lab is a suite of tools dedicated to helping broadband customers determine what kind of throttling or protocol discrimination their ISP is employing, presumably letting them make an intelligent decision when shopping between ISPs -- assuming
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/New-Google-Tools-Test-ISP-Traffic-Discrimination-100522
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Barbara van Schewick on Network Neutrality Nuances, Center for Internet and Society
CIS Co-Director, Barbara van Schewick, and David Farber of Carnegie Mellon University, recently debated the Nuances of Net Neutrality in the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) February 09 publication, Communications of ACM. Their piece is described as a discussion of divergent paths to unrestricted access of content and applications via the Internet.
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6049
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Congressional Internet Protection Starts Now, PK
The protection of the Internet is expected on Jan. 28 to be back on the House floor for the first time in three years. Granted, an observer would need the equivalent of a legislative microscope to find it, because the concept of an open, non-discriminatory network is buried deep in an $825 billion stimulus package.
http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/524794054/1960
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Cox Plans to Throttle, mLabs to the Rescue, PK
Today we have some bad and good news. First the bad news: Cox Communications announced that it has a new way to manage it’s network traffic; the problem is, Cox decides which packets go ahead of others. The story says Cox will prioritize the traffic it deems to be “time-intensive, like Web pages, streaming video and online games.” Other services may be slowed: FTP, network storage, software updates, P2P,
http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/525785957/1964
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralnm.htm

White House: C is for cookie, it's good enough for YouTube, Ars Technica
It's nice to see that someone at the White House is reading the work of privacy maven Chris Soghoian. Less than a day after Chris drew attention to a special YouTube exemption in the privacy policy for WhiteHouse.gov—permitting YouTube to plant tracking cookies on visitors' machines—the president's virtual home made some rapid changes.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/01/white-house-c-is-for-cookie-its-good-enough-for-youtube.ars
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/

AT&T And Comcast Willing To Cut Off File Sharers, techdirt
While ISPs have been reluctant to admit to agreeing to be a part of the RIAA's three strikes plan, if you had to take a guess who would be involved, AT&T and Comcast would probably lead the list (along with Cox, which has already admitted to doing so). So, it probably comes as no surprise that News.com has confirmed from internal sources that, indeed, both AT&T and Comcast have agreed, in principle, to
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090128/1543013559.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/p2p.htm

AT&T, Comcast may help RIAA foil piracy, CNET
Two of the nation's largest Internet service providers are indicating that they would penalize chronic illegal file sharers. The RIAA has been working to enlist their help.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10151389-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/p2p.htm

RIAA Found To Have Sued Yet Another Woman Without A Computer, Techdirt
While the RIAA insists that it's stopped its lawsuit campaign, it's still moving forward with existing lawsuits -- including one against yet another woman who claims not to have even owned a computer on the date she was accused of file sharing. Now it's possible that the woman is lying -- but if that's the case, she's going to be in a lot more trouble than for sharing some music files. This is not the first time the RIAA was found
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090127/0108303542.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/p2p.htm

City council tries to envision future of newspapers, Lost Remote
With the Seattle PI just a few weeks from shutting down its printing press — and perhaps the entire operation — Seattle City Councilmember Nick Licata brought a council committee together today to talk about the future of newspapers in a soon-to-be one newspaper town. While I applaud Licata for tackling the complex topic, I about fell out of my chair while I watched the live stream of the event at my desk. The
http://www.lostremote.com/2009/01/29/city-council-tries-to-envision-future-of-newspapers/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/

US DTV Cutover: re-purposing spectrum is harder than you think, CISCO
With just 20 days until US analog television broadcasting shuts down, the various parts of the federal government are in a dither over whether to hit the brakes to give themselves four more months to prepare for the dawn of the all-digital TV age.  A bill pending in Congress, crafted in response to a Obama
http://blogs.cisco.com/gov/comments/us_dtv_cutover_re-purposing_spectrum_is_harder_than_you_think/#When:22:41:07Z
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/dtv.htm

More Details On Proposed DTV Delay: This Just Gets Better And Better, Techdirt
As mentioned, the House has rejected the attempt to push through the delay to the digital TV transition that the Senate approved earlier in the week. The measure needed a two-thirds majority to pass in this attempt, which it did not get. However, it did garner a simple majority, which means it will probably be brought to the floor and passed in the next few days. But it's worth looking more closely at some of the details to
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090128/1137593557.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/dtv.htm

Online newspaper readership climbs 16 percent, CNET
Top 10 online newspapers post double-digit increase in December Web traffic, offering the newspaper industry encouragement amid bleak times, according to a new report.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10150884-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm

Top Ten List of Needed FCC Regulatory Reforms, CircleID
At the risk of anthromorphizing a regulatory agency, at the very least the FCC has not told the complete truth, or put itself in a position not to know the truth. The FCC has contributed to debates about what constitutes credible facts and statistics, and what this data means. For example, soon-to-be former FCC Chairman Kevin Martin asserted as the gospel truth his factual conclusion that cable television operators
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090129_needed_fcc_regulatory_reforms/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm

Copps de-Martinizing the FCC, begins internal reforms, Ars Technica
Michael Copps is only the interim chair of the Federal Communications Commission, to be replaced by White House pick Julius Genachowski if everything goes according to plan. But, judging by the comments made to the agency's staff on Monday, the FCC's senior Democrat clearly has no interest in playing bench warmer until then. Copps' remarks should be read as a call for the Commission to begin reforming
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/01/copps-de-martinizing-the-fcc-begins-internal-reforms.ars
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm

Russian 'cybermilitia' knocks Kyrgyzstan offline, CNET
A Russian 'cybermilitia' has knocked the central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan off the Internet, a security researcher said today.
http://feeds.computerworld.com/click.phdo?i=c6e2eaf5649c4547f5b8d934c19729e4
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/cyberwar.htm

"The Adventurous Parts of the Internet", Renesys
I just spent a very pleasant 3 days attending NANOG 45 in the Dominican Republic. The whole thing was a whirlwind of peering, technical presentations, and catching up with the people who keep the North American parts of the internet backbone alive. What can I say? The DR is overflowing with friendly people, great food, warm breezes (82F in Santo Domingo, versus 0F at my house in New Hampshire), and very
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2009/01/the-adventurous-parts-of-the-i.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/reliability.htm

Network Neutrality Remains In Stimulus Bills - Can the language survive the telecom lobbyist gauntlet?, dslreports
Yesterday, purely across party lines, the House passed (244-188) the $819 billion stimulus plan, $6 billion of which will go to broadband. The House bill includes a mandate requiring that ISPs who get government funds for deployment must adhere to network neutrality -- the term left undefined until the incoming FCC boss, Julius Genochowski, defines it within 45 days after passage.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Network-Neutrality-Remains-In-Stimulus-Bills-100545
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

AT&T, Comcast in Possible Agreement With Music Industry for New Antipiracy Campaign, CircleID
How does the Recording Industry Association of America plan to stop illegal file sharing? Perhaps by turning two of America's largest Internet service providers into stooges. Last year, after a round of very public defeats over its plans to sue individuals for illegal file sharing, the RIAA unveiled a new plan to have ISPs do its dirty work. Now, AT&T and
http://www.circleid.com/posts/att_comcast_music_industry_antipiracy/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/p2p.htm

Once Again, You Don't Get To Use DMCA Takedowns To Remove Any Content You Don't Like, Techdirt
Michael Geist has the latest example of what appears to be a company abusing the DMCA takedown process to try to quiet the speech of someone they didn't like who was criticizing them. In this case, Canada Post sent a takedown notice to YouTube for a video from union members making fun of Canada Post's CEO. The video was a parody song,
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090127/0232393546.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/dmca.htm

DTV Extension? Senate Says June 12 - AGAIN!, CommLawBlog
Looks like it’s mulligan time on Capitol Hill. As previously reported, the Senate passed a DTV Delay bill on Monday, January 26. However, also as previously reported, the House vote on a corresponding bill came up a tad short vote-wise on Wednesday, January 28.
http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/CommLawBlog/~3/527259951/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/dtv.htm

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