From rcannon100 at yahoo.com Fri May 1 07:31:09 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 07:31:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 5.1 :: Of Subways :: Dirty Tricks :: Wild Blue :: Family Safety Contract :: Bypasing BigBrother :: Sec. 230 :: Canuck IPv6 :: Mickey Hulu :: Message-ID: <179396.5352.qm@web37907.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ The television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. ? David Frost Of subways, government subsidies and broadband, CW There's a lot of talk these days of the "Internet as public utility." In fact, if you parse the language of the stimulus package, you definitely pick up that perspective as part of the motivation for investing US$7.2 billion in Internet infrastructure. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132419&source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/ Incumbent Dirty Tricks In Wilson, NC - Telecom push pollsters arrive in the Carolinas..., dslreports We've discussed how regional incumbents are busy trying to crush community developed broadband in Wilson, North Carolina -- where the city has started offering consumers symmetrical fiber service up to 100Mbps. According to the city of Wilson blog, local incumbents are busy "push polling," or polling local residents with skewed questions http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Incumbent-Dirty-Tricks-In-Wilson-NC-102206 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/muni.htm Wild Blue 18Mbps More Like 10Mbps - Higher speeds 3 years out, dependent on government cash..., dslreports Earlier this week, we noted how satellite broadband provider WildBlue announced they'd soon be testing 18Mbps satellite service. The timing of the announcement comes as Wild Blue and HughesNet are trying to convince Uncle Sam that satellite broadband would be a great way to spend billions in broadband stimulus money. But in http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Wild-Blue-18Mbps-More-Like-10Mbps-102209 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/satellite.htm Security Scene: Family Safety Contract, Comcast Our kids are on the Internet all the time. And often times, parents are not able to supervise their child?s online activity as much as they?d like. As we all know, the Internet presents enormous possibilities but it also brings along the potential for serious risks. http://www.comcastvoices.com/2009/04/security-scene-safety-family-contract.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Bypassing Big Brother Isn't Easy - NYTimes profiles the Global Internet Freedom Consortium..., dslreports As a growing number of countries consider filters to clean the Internet of its naughty bits, the New York Times reports that even in filter-happy Iran and China, users are finding a way around government Internet filters. That's thanks in large part to groups like the Global Internet Freedom Consortium, which has ties to the Falun Gong and has been a http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Bypassing-Big-Brother-Isnt-Easy-102220 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm Another Chink in Section 230?s Armor, Tech Lib Front Just came across this informative blog article by David Ardia, a lawyer at the Harvard Berkman Center. He describes a recent ruling on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in a case that the New England Patriots filed against StubHub. The Pats bar fans from reselling their season tickets and want to hold online sites http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techliberation/~3/CD0gTO71BHo/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/samaritan.htm Two 47 USC 230 Defense Losses--StubHub and Alvi Armani Medical, Tech Marketing Law Even though both of these cases are a little dated, they both just showed up in Westlaw. http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2009/04/two_47_usc_230.htm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/samaritan.htm UK Broadband Penetration Drops to 14th Worldwide, bandwidth reports Over the last quarter of 2008 the UK and Canada dropped behind the tiny Bailiwick of Guernsey to 14th and 15th place respectively in the global broadband penetration race. Meanwhile in the US, broadband penetration dropped to 93.1% among active Internet users. http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0904/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm IPv6? Canada About to Score?, CircleID USA-Canada World Championship hockey games never fail to elicit great excitement. In the IPv6 adoption world league however, the US seems to have a convincing lead over their northern neighbour but the game is not over yet, here come the Canucks. http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090430_ipv6_canada_about_to_score/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm Comcast Delivers Healthy Q1 Profit on Customer Gains, Ecommerce Times Comcast, the nation's largest cable TV provider, said Thursday that first-quarter earnings rose by 6 percent as the company signed up throngs of new customers for its digital cable, phone and high-speed Internet services. The http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/66944.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/comcast.htm Armenia - Online journalist beaten by unknown assailants, RSF No description http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=30958 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/europe.htm Anti-DMCA crusaders fight for the right to crack DRM, Ars Technica Every three years, the US Copyright Office reviews the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's most controversial section?the ban on circumventing DRM, even for legal uses. The Copyright Office has the authority to issue three-year exemptions to that blanket ban, carving out space for http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/fight-for-your-right-to-crack-drm.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/dmca.htm Not Smart: Warner Music Issues DMCA Takedown On Larry Lessig Presentation, Techdirt If there were anyone out there to whom you would not want to send a random takedown notice for an online video, it would probably be Larry Lessig. Given that Lessig has become the public face for those who feel that copyright has been stretched too far, as well as being a founder of Stanford's Fair Use Project, and who's written multiple books http://techdirt.com/articles/20090428/1738424686.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/dmca.htm Oh no you didn't: Warner hits Lessig vid with DMCA takedown, Ars Technica Lawrence Lessig, the well-known legal scholar and copyright reform advocate who founded Creative Commons, was surprised to discover that Warner Music issued a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/lessig-presentation-on-youtube-hit-with-dmca-takedown-notice.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/dmca.htm Disney to buy Hulu stake, broadcast ABC shows on the online video site, CW Walt Disney Co. has acquired an equity stake in Hulu and plans to run shows from the ABC television network and various cable channels on the video site. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132415&source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ Study: Online News Rapidly Cutting Off Print Pub Circulation, Ecommerce Times Sure, plenty of readers are turning more to the Web for newspaper and magazine stories, but are they giving up on print altogether? In many cases, yes, according to a recent study by the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication. It found that 22 percent of Internet users have canceled a print http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/66945.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ Hulu Continues Ascent in U.S. Online Video Market, Breaking Into Top 3 Properties by Videos Viewed for First Time in March, comscore comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released March 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, showing that U.S. Internet users viewed 14.5 billion online videos during the month, representing an increase of 11 percent versus February. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/comscore/~3/Cx07HXHhD5Y/release.asp More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/video.htm Obama to Name Mignon Clyburn as FCC Commissioner, CircleID Following his pick of Julius Genakowski as FCC chairman, President Obama moves to fill an open Democrat seat on the five-person panel with Mignon L. Clyburn, a member of the South Carolina Public Service Commission since 1998 and the daughter of House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn. If approved by Congress, Clyburn will fill the http://www.circleid.com/posts/mignon_clyburn_as_fcc_commissioner/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm Obama or AT&T -- The Choice for Commissioner-Designate Clyburn as the Whitacre Era Ends, PK House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) may not have done his daughter, Mignon, any favors by getting her appointed to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/UFxNc26jP48/2130 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm US cyber-security 'embarrassing', BBC As President Obama prepares to go public with his review of cyber-security, industry experts weigh in with criticisms. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/8023793.stm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dhs.htm A Decade Later, FCC's E-Rate Program Still A Mess - Welcome to dysfunction junction..., dslreports We've been writing about the dysfunction of the FCC's E-Rate program for what feels like an eternity. The system, which you pay into via Universal Service Fund (USF) fees, is designed to deliver broadband and technology services to the nation's schools and libraries. Instead, like the larger USF, it's more like a slush fund, where money http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/A-Decade-Later-FCCs-ERate-Program-Still-A-Mess-102201 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/usf/erate.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 & Facebook! 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 May 5 07:18:59 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 07:18:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 5.5 :: Cost O Providing BBand :: Neutrality at Risk? :: EU Blasts US Links to ICANN :: Urgency of DNSSEC Adoption :: FCC Reform ::Nebraska VoIP Decision :: Message-ID: <39824.30412.qm@web37906.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal. - John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963 Cost Of Providing Broadband Dropping - It's the television market where margins are tight..., dslreports Saul Hansell of the New York Times keeps poking the cable industry's numbers, finding that Time Warner's claims that flat-rate billing isn't viable remains unjustified. Hansell notes that at Time Warner Cable, the cost of providing broadband services dropped 18% in Q1 from a year ago. Overall Capex costs also dropped, while the price of http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Cost-Of-Providing-Broadband-Dropping-102253 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/ Taking stock of the nation's airwaves, Google When you're walking around town chatting on your cellphone, or sitting in a cafe surfing the Web over Wi-Fi, do you ever wonder how wireless signals travel through the airwaves around you? Most of us probably don't give it much thought -- and yet use of these airwaves is precisely what makes many of our modern communications http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GooglePublicPolicyBlog/~3/SSRBm4XmA2Y/taking-stock-of-nations-airwaves.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm President Obama Putting Net Neutrality At Risk?, Open Left There is a disturbing possibility that President Obama has put his excellent open media and network neutrality platform at risk with his latest--and last--Democratic FCC appointment, Mignon Clyburn. http://www.openleft.com/diary/13133/president-obama-putting-net-neutrality-at-risk More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm EU Blasts U.S. Links to ICANN, Internet News A top European commissioner calls for the U.S. Department of Commerce to cede control over the Internet authority. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/j2VE-8Xw_84/3818531 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm EU Calls For Full Privatization of ICANN, Commissioner Calls Sept 30 Moment of Truth, CircleID In a video posted on her website this morning, Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media, has called for greater transparency and accountability in Internet Governance. She outlines a new Internet Governance model which includes a fully private and accountable ICANN, accompanied by an independent judicial http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090504_eu_calls_for_full_privatization_of_icann/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm Another Attack, Another Reason for the Urgency of DNSSEC Adoption, CircleID News broke this week about an attack in Puerto Rico that caused the local websites of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Coca-Cola, PayPal, Nike, Dell and Nokia to be redirected for a few hours to a phony website. The website was all black except for a taunting message from the computer hacker responsible for the attack. These attacks were http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090501_another_attack_another_reason_for_dnssec/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/security.htm Minnesota ISP Gambling Ban Going Nowhere Fast - Though lawmaker considers new law just in case..., dslreports Last week we noted that Minnesota alcohol and gambling regulators have decided to try and force ISPs in the state to block user access to online gambling websites. It's unlikely the effort will succeed, given it's technically almost impossible and legally dubious. The state wants to force ISPs to adhere to inapplicable "common carrier" laws, http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Minnesota-ISP-Gambling-Ban-Going-Nowhere-Fast-102263 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/gambling.htm Board Ties at Apple and Google Are Scrutinized, NYT The two companies share two directors, and several people briefed on the Federal Trade Commission inquiry say the agency is studying whether this is an antitrust violation. http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=1c4fbcb8a28f1ef364aa06e451b7ff36 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/google.htm Another Bogus Copyright Takedown: Can't Protest A Viacom Movie With T-Shirts, Techdirt Boing Boing points us to the news that someone who was trying to protest the fact that a new Viacom animated movie was hiring Caucasian actors to play Asian or Inuit characters found that the t-shirts she was selling via Zazzle were taken down due to a claim that they violated Viacom's intellectual property. It's difficult to see what the http://techdirt.com/articles/20090504/0420244738.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/dmca.htm Perez Hilton Sends DMCA Takedown Over Anti-Gay-Marriage Ad, Citizen's Media The blogosphere is buzzing about Perez Hilton's recent foray into copyright bullying. Last week, the celebrity blogger, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, sent a DMCA takedown notice to YouTube, claiming that a new advocacy ad from the National Organization for Marriage ("NOM") which was posted on the video-sharing site http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2009/perez-hilton-sends-dmca-takedown-over-anti-gay-marriage-ad More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/dmca.htm Pai and Dunn for FCC, Tech Lib Front President Obama intends to nominate Mignon L. Clyburn to the Federal Communications Commission. Clyburn is a good pick. She has been a member of the Public Service Commission of South Carolina since 1998. She chaired the South Carolina commission from 2002 to 2004, is a past chair of the Southeastern Association of Regulatory http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techliberation/~3/M_CTSgg1I8M/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm Tales of the Sausage Factory: Republican Bill To Reform FCC Not A Bad Place To Start Discussions., Tales from the Sausage Factory There's an old saying that goes ?when it rains, can't fix the roof; when it don't rain, the roof don't need fixin.'? That rather sums up most efforts at government reform. When you're out of power, you can't really do anything about it... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1525 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm Hackers Break Into Virginia Health Professions Database, Demand Ransom, Wash Post Hackers last week broke into a Virginia state Web site used by pharmacists to track prescription drug abuse. They deleted records on more than 8 million patients and replaced the site's homepage with a ransom note demanding $10 million for the return of the records, according to a posting on... http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/technology/index_xml/~3/94Sui8EDqJw/BL2009050403105.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/hacker.htm Court Says VoIP Is Not A Telco Service; States Can't Tax It As One, Techdirt In recent years, various state regulators, desperate to dredge up extra tax income, have targeted VoIP providers, using the infamous "like a duck" test, to say that since they look like a traditional telephone service, they need to pay taxes like one -- despite the fact that they don't make use of the same infrastructure (which is part of the http://techdirt.com/articles/20090504/0228114732.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/states/ne.htm Half of Tennessee on wrong side of digital divide, Speed Matters The lack of broadband access and adoption in Tennessee -- as elsewhere -- creates a significant disadvantage for state residents and businesses, reports The Tennessean. http://www.speedmatters.org/blog/half-of-tennessee-on-wrong-side-of-digital-divide.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/states/tn.htm GAO Report Long Term Strategic Vision Would Help Ensure Targeting of Erate Funds to Highest Priority Uses, GAO Requests for E-rate funding consistently exceed the annual funding cap, and increased commitments for telecommunications and Internet services, combined with significant undisbursed funds, limit funding for wiring and components needed for data transmission. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09253.pdf More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/usf/erate.htm GAO: FCC school/library computer fund a pit of mystery, Ars Technica A new study issued by the Government and Accountability Office this week concludes that a Federal Communications Commission program that subsidizes school and library Internet, telephone, and computer http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/gao-fcc-schoollibrary-computer-fund-a-pit-of-mystery.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/usf/erate.htm State Efforts To Regulate VoIP Thwarted Again - VoIP carriers win USF debate in Nebraska, dslreports A few years ago several states noticed that they were losing tax revenue as users ditched their second (or sometimes first) landlines. To try and make up for this shortfall, a number of them (like Minnesota) tried to exert their regulatory authority over VoIP providers, even if those providers had no actual physical presence in that http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/State-Efforts-To-Regulate-VoIP-Thwarted-Again-102274 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/fcc.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 & Facebook! 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 May 7 08:42:41 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 08:42:41 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 5.7 :: Who Watches those Who Meter :: AGs Have No Case :: Senator Calls for New Neutrality Rules :: No Online Gambling for You! :: RIAA Still Filing Lawsuits :: Putting the Bully Back into the Bully Pulpit :: Message-ID: <636908.154.qm@web37901.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy. - Mahatma Gandhi If ISPs Meter, Who Verifies Meter Accuracy? - The ISPs? No thanks..., dslreports Despite the recent consumer victory over Time Warner Cable, the holy grail of metered broadband billing is something carriers simply aren't going to let go of. While there is absolutely no data to support the argument that billing by the byte is necessary given the dropping cost of providing broadband, the potential profit is simply too http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/If-ISPs-Meter-Who-Verifies-Meter-Accuracy-102303 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/tiers.htm NPR?s Talk of the Nation on Online Safety, Palfrey NPR?s ToTN ran a piece yesterday on Online Safety that references lots of good data and the Internet Safety Technical Task Force report. Guests included three experts on this topic: Lenore Skenazy (author of Free Range Kids), Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, and Janis Wolak (UNH). It is rare that one hears such a http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/05/06/nprs-talk-of-the-nation-on-online-safety/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm United States - ?To combat Internet censorship, companies cannot be left to act on their own? - 6.05.2009, RSF No description http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=31226 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm EFF: AGs Have No Case, Craigslist Attorney General Henry McMaster has no case. Neither do AGs Lynch or Blumenthal. And neither does Sheriff Dart, as craigslist explained Monday in their motion to dismiss his March lawsuit. While the AGs may wish it was not so, federal law protects craigslist and no amount of posturing will change that fact. http://blog.craigslist.org/2009/05/eff-ags-have-no-case/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/samaritan.htm AG Meeting in NYC, Craigslist craigslist had a cordial and productive meeting with Attorneys General Blumenthal, Koster, and Madigan this morning in New York. http://blog.craigslist.org/2009/05/ag-meeting-in-nyc/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/samaritan.htm Senator calls for new net neutrality rules, CW The Federal Communications Commission needs to pass strong new net neutrality rules to prevent small technology entrepreneurs from being crowded out of the market by large broadband providers, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden said. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132627&source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm Senator to FCC: time for black-and-white net neutrality rules, Ars Technica Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) let it rip at the Computer & Communications Industry Association's Annual Washington Caucus on Wednesday. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/senator-pressures-fcc-on-net-neutrality.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm Mignon Clyburn Will Kill Net Neutrality, Open Left Obama is about to nominate Mignon Clyburn to the FCC, and for those of you who want the internet to turn into a low-rent version of cable TV, dominated by Rupert Murdoch and a few other right-wing billionaires, this is very good news. http://www.openleft.com/diary/13214/mignon-clyburn-will-kill-net-neutrality More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm Why US Broadband Service Continues to Stagnate -- Some Simple Numbers to Drive the Point Home., Sascha I've been fascinated by the recent announcement that Australia is spending $31 billion USD to upgrade its broadband. With all the excitement and fuss over the broadband stimulus funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, it may seem strange to be claiming that the $7.2 billion is a pitifully small amount -- but let me http://saschameinrath.com/2009/may/06/why_us_broadband_service_continues_stagnate_some_simple_numbers_drive_point_home More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm No On-line Gambling for You, Minnesotans, Info/law Minnesota?s Department of Public Safety has instructed the state?s ISPs to block access by state residents to a list of gambling sites, claiming authority under the Wire Act (18 U.S.C. 1084). The Department?s theory is that 1) gambling is illegal in Minnesota, and 2) the Wire Act requires common carriers to stop furnishing services to such http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2009/05/05/no-on-line-gambling-for-you-minnesotans/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/gambling.htm Senate Opening Up? Offers Up Vote Data In XML Format, Techdirt There's been a big push lately to get the gov't to be a lot more open with its data, and both the new federal government CTO and CIO have spoken up about the importance of opening up more data. While it may take some time, we are starting to see things happen -- and happen quickly in some cases. Apparently, the Senate agreed http://techdirt.com/articles/20090505/1217474755.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/ Vonage Holdings Corp. Reports First Quarter 2009 Results, Vonage No description http://ir.vonage.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=382388 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/vonage.htm Government Still Blocking Information on Secret IP Enforcement Treaty, EFF Two public interest groups today called on the government to stop blocking the release of information about a secret intellectual property trade agreement with broad implications for privacy and innovation around the world. http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/05/06 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm Oh Look, The RIAA's Still Filing Lawsuits - Nearly half a year after telling Congress they'd stopped..., dslreports Last December, the RIAA made a big deal to the media about the fact that they were turning over a new leaf, and would stop suing potential customers for P2P copyright infringement. The RIAA sent a letter to Congress saying they had "discontinued initiating new lawsuits in August," and basked in the press praise for being wise enough to http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Oh-Look-The-RIAAs-Still-Filing-Lawsuits-102292 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/p2p.htm The Straight Dope On Why Charging For News Online Is A Bad Idea, Techdirt We've had plenty of stories lately explaining why trying to charge for news online is not a very good idea, but Duane alerts us to Cecil Adams from the famed "The Straight Dope" and his take on the matter, after someone suggested that all newspapers should band together and start charging for online content. Cecil's response is so good that it's http://techdirt.com/articles/20090506/0252024766.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ Congressional Rep Wants To Put Internet Trolls In Jail, Techdirt Last year, the lawsuit against Lori Drew got plenty of attention. It involved the sad story of a girl, Megan Meier, who ended up killing herself after a "friend" she met on MySpace ended their friendship in a rather rude fashion. It later turned out that the "friend" wasn't a real person, but a made up individual, created by a former friend of the girl, that http://techdirt.com/articles/20090505/1244544756.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/crime.htm AGs v. Craigslist: Putting the Bully Back Into Bully Pulpit, EFF Here we go again. On Tuesday, South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster notified craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster that unless craigslist removes its erotic services section within 10 days, "craigslist management may be subject to criminal investigation and prosecution." McMaster's threat comes on the heels of increasingly http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/05/ags-v-craigslist-put 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 Cytertelecom is now on Twitter & Facebook! 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 May 13 07:00:19 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 07:00:19 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 5.13 :: Broadband Crunch :: Strickling Confirm Hearing May 19 :: 4G :: FTC May Get Tough on Broadband / Neutrality :: ISOC Net Gov Report :: 3 Strikes for Print :: Newspapers Should Listen to Nancy :: Message-ID: <204020.53574.qm@web37903.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ Humility makes great men twice honorable ? Benjamin Franklin Companies Trying To Restrict Usage Isn't Evidence Of Any Broadband Crunch, Techdirt This is fascinating. A few weeks back, we noted that a press report in the UK was repeating Nemertes' questionable research on how there was apparently some big bandwidth crunch on the way that would harm the internet. However, someone from Nemertes quickly showed up to claim that the original reporter took their (old) report out of context, and http://techdirt.com/articles/20090511/1811514836.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/ Sen Commerce Committee May 19 Confirmation Hearings :: Strickling, Choprah, Cybertelecom The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation announces a full committee Nominations Hearing http://cybertelecom.blogspot.com/2009/05/sen-commerce-committee-may-19.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/ Rachelle Chong?s Grotesque Broadband Advocacy, Cook's Collaborative Edge he gaming of the broadband stimulus is going on in full force. http://gordoncook.net/wp/?p=303 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm Clearwire and Cisco Form Alliance to Deliver 4G Mobile Internet Services for Consumers and Businesses, CISCO No description http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2009/prod_051309b.html?CMP=AF17154&vs_f=News at Cisco:+Headlines+and+News+Releases&vs_p=News at Cisco:+Headlines+and+News+Releases&vs_k=1 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm New FTC Boss: Tough On Broadband's Duopoly? - Leibowitz chats up broadband, net neutrality, privacy... , dslreports When it comes to consumer issues like broadband and network neutrality, the FTC in recent years has spent most of its time nodding dumbly at carriers, allowing them to "self-regulate." The idea that corporations can effectively monitor themselves for bad behavior has been taken to extremes over the last few decades across numerous industries, with http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/New-FTC-Boss-Tough-On-Broadbands-Duopoly-102398 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm FTC chair: we may jump into net neutrality fray, Ars Technica During the prior administration, most of the action in the area of competition among online services was happening at the FCC, which brought the hammer down on Comcast's user throttling and waded into the http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/ftc-chair-promises-aggressive-approach-to-spyware.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm ISOC posts report of Internet Governance survey, ISOC The Internet Society conducted a survey of members on the topic of Internet Governance in April and May 2009. The purpose was to assist ISOC in addressing Internet governance issues in the discussion up to and including the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Sharm El Sheikh in November 2009 http://www.isoc.org/tools/blogs/membernews/?p=876 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm Advertising: Pay-Per-Click Web Advertisers Combat Costly Fraud, NYT The economic downturn has led to an increase in pay-per-click advertising, and in the use of false clicks to make money for the Web sites that carry the ads. http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=1b39e0c27cc3924fa2111a34e7b18a13 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/advertising.htm Google facing Texas-sized class action lawsuit over AdWords, Ars Technica When does the use of a trademark in third-party advertising constitute infringement? To an extent, it depends on where you are. In the US, eBay is in the clear, while the same behavior has caused it trouble in France. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/google-facing-texas-sized-class-action-lawsuit-over-adwords.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/advertising.htm Three Strikes Law Against Internet Piracy Approved in France, CircleID The French National Assembly on Tuesday approved a plan by President Nicolas Sarkozy to punish digital pirates with the possible suspension of their Internet connections, a little more than a month after the same body had rejected the proposal in a surprise vote http://www.circleid.com/posts/three_strikes_law_against_internet_piracy_france/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/europe.htm A Modest Proposal: Three-Strikes for Print, Freedom to Tinker In short, a three-strikes system is just as good an idea for print as it is for the Internet. Which country will be the first to adopt it? http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/modest-proposal-three-strikes-print More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm Big Content's "theater of the absurd" at DMCA hearings, Ars Technica Hear me out?last week's hearings from the Library of Congress' Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works were http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/big-contents-theater-of-the-absurd-at-dmca-hearing.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/cryto.htm The DMCA hearings bring out outrageous arguments against fair use and consumer rights, PK This past week the Copyright Office held public hearings in Washington D.C. and Palo Alto, California, as part of its fourth section 1201 rule making proceeding. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) requires the Copyright Office to conduct these proceedings once every three years to exempt from the DMCAs prohibition on circumvention http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/0EvR0UbbJ-4/2156 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/cryto.htm Newspaper Publishers Should Listen to Nancy Reagan, PK If the news industry was as adept with its technology and finance as it is with its corporate whingeing and pleading, we would all be a lot better off. Not content with the Associated Press (AP) and Rupert Murdoch picking fights with Google over links to stories, the Newspaper Association of America trotted up to Capitol Hill to claim ownership of facts and to http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/vSd3GJ9ph3w/2167 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm Don't Newspapers Owe Google Money For Helping Them Research Stories For Free?, Techdirt Last month, we parodied the mainstream press' criticism that everyone else "owed" them money because they were the original creators of a story, by noting that the press never paid the newsmakers for creating the story in the first place. Danny Sullivan has now taken a more serious look at this, noting that for all the talk about how Google is "stealing" from http://techdirt.com/articles/20090510/2146084821.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm The Problem With Newspapers: Lack Of Innovation, Lack Of Engagement... And Lack Of Reporting, Techdirt And here we go again, with yet another post about the troubled business of the newspapers, but this time I've got three separate articles that, combined, give a pretty good explanation for why the newspaper business has been in trouble. Basically, the newspapers failed to innovate, they failed to engage with their communities -- and worst of all, they failed http://techdirt.com/articles/20090510/2128554820.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm Why don't I feel all warm and fuzzy about this?, ISEN A recent Washington Post story, headlined DHS to Bolster Protection of Civilian Computer Networks, explains that the Department of Homeland Security, working with the National Security Agency (these two agency titles sound alarmingly similar), are plotting to defend my network and yours http://isen.com/blog/2009/05/why-don-i-feel-all-warm-and-fuzzy-about.html 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 Cytertelecom is now on Twitter & Facebook! 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Period." - Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton (5/14/09) New bill wants fiber conduit built into every road project, Ars Technica Getting fiber to rural communities can be cost-prohibitive, but Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) has a plan: force the federal government to build fiber conduit into the sides of all new road projects, making it dirt cheap to string new fiber all interstates when necessary. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/new-bill-wants-fiber-conduit-built-into-every-road-project.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/fiber.htm HughesNet Sued For Poor Service - After our users have complained for years..., dslreports When you've got a captive audience (like say, rural broadband customers with no other options), you can get away with a hell of a lot. Just ask Hughesnet, a satellite broadband company that's managed to stay in business despite offering consistently sub-par service to customers for much of the last few years. Not only does HughesNet service http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/HughesNet-Sued-For-Poor-Service-102542 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/satellite.htm Pushed Into a Corner, Craigslist Bites Back, CDT South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster learned an important lesson today: You don?t push Craigslist into a corner and then poke it with a sharp stick because Craigslist will bite back. http://blog.cdt.org/2009/05/20/pushed-into-a-corner-craigslist-bites-back/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm FTC Looks To Regulate Blogger Credibility, Techdirt The Federal Trade Commission is mulling over guidelines that would require bloggers to disclose when they're writing about products they've been given, sponsor's products, or are getting paid to write about a particular product. The FTC says the new rules are necessary because people are increasingly turning to blogs for product http://techdirt.com/articles/20090519/1030204931.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm Reply Comments in FCC's "Child Safe Viewing Act" Notice of Inquiry, PFF As I mentioned in a post last month, dozens of comments were filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as part of the agency's "Child Safe Viewing Act" Notice of Inquiry. Again, this proceeding was required under the "Child Safe Viewing Act of 2007," which Congress passed last year and President Bush signed last http://blog.pff.org/archives/2009/05/reply_comments_in_fccs_child_safe_viewing_act_noti.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/reports.htm CL Sues SC AG For Declaratory Relief, Craigslist craigslist has filed suit against SC AG Henry McMaster in federal court in South Carolina, seeking declaratory relief and a restraining order with respect to criminal charges he has repeatedly threatened against craigslist and its executives http://blog.craigslist.org/2009/05/cl-sues-sc-ag-for-declaratory-relief/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/samaritan.htm SC AG Federal Court Filings, Craigslist The COMPLAINT FOR IMMEDIATE INJUNCTIVE AND OTHER RELIEF filed last night in South Carolina federal court is available for review, here is an excerpt: http://blog.craigslist.org/2009/05/sc-ag-federal-court-filings/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/samaritan.htm A Closer Look at China's Call for an End to the Internet Governance Forum, CircleID China as a nation with a population of 1.3 billion people, represents over a fifth of the whole world and for this reason, if not for any other, we need to sit up and listen to anything that China says, though a lot of what China says may be disagreeable. http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090520_closer_look_china_call_to_end_internet_governance_forum/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm Cuba - Anyone can browse the Internet... unless they are Cuban -, RSF On the anniversary of the Republic of Cuba's creation on 20 May 1902, Reporters Without Borders calls for continued diplomatic efforts that could help improve access to news and information on the island. But Cubans are still denied the Internet access enjoyed by foreign visitors and 24 journalists are still in prison. http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=31386 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/ Extra! Extra! FTC Announces Workshop: 'Can News Media Survive the Internet Age? Competition, Consumer Protection, and First Amendment Perspectives', FTC The Federal Trade Commission today announced it will hold a series of workshops titled "Can News Media Survive the Internet Age? Competition, Consumer Protection, and First Amendment Perspectives." The first workshop will be held on September 15, 2009. http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/05/newspapers.shtm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm How Does FCC Compare with Other Agencies?, Spectrum Talk Thus out of a total of 278 agencies and subcomponents that were rated, only 25 had a lower score than FCC. http://spectrumtalk.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-does-fcc-compare-with-other.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm Chopra, Strickling Ease Through Senate Hearing, Internet News Senate panel weighs in on the nominations for federal CTO and the head of a key Commerce Department tech agency. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/5m-Jkt53MIA/3821171 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/ftc.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 & Facebook! 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Thomas Jefferson The Power of Broadband: The Public Television Perspective, Connected Nation In Kentucky, preparing to take the GED exam and learning workplace and life skills is now easier, instant and free?thanks to Kentucky Educational Television?s FastForward, an online educational service that provides instant, free access to lifelong learning videos to Kentucky residents. http://connectednation.com/in_the_news/the_blog/2009/05/power-of-broadband-public-television.php More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/ Apple Says Public Domain Is Too Dirty for iPhone, EFF Eucalyptus is the name of an e-book reader app for the iPhone. It allows you to read public domain books that have been digitized by the volunteers at Project Gutenberg. Apple has rejected Eucalyptus for inclusion in the iTunes App Store because one of the books archived at Project Gutenberg, and thus readable in Eucalyptus, is a Victorian-era http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/05/apple-says-public-do More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm U.S. Still Fifteenth In Broadband Penetration - Though per-capita subscriber growth remains strong, dslreports Last year, the U.S. ranked fifteenth in penetration, thirteenth in average price per connection, and nineteenth in average advertised download speed, according to data from the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). The OECD just updated their broadband data portal, and as of December 2008, The United http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/US-Still-Fifteenth-In-Broadband-Penetration-102585 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm Thoughts on IPv6 Security, Take Two, CircleID A few months ago, I made a post about IPv6 security. I've caught some flak for saying that IPv6 isn't a security issue. I still stand by this position. http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090522_thoughts_on_ipv6_security_take_two/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm Verizon Threatens Massachusetts - If you don't pass franchise 'reform,' you don't get broadband?, dslreports We've frequently discussed how AT&T and Verizon have lobbied hard to pass laws that strip video authority from towns and cities, under the premise of speeding up telcoTV deployment and promoting competition. Unfortunately, many of these bills are little more than rubber-stamped wish lists for the carriers that erode eminent domain rights, http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Threatens-Massachusetts-102601 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/verizon.htm Verizon Of Little Help In Manhunt - Demands $20 from local police to help pinpoint man's cell..., dslreports Several users have submitted this troublesome tale of Verizon Wireless customer service (or lack thereof) in Ohio. According to the Dover Times Reporter, an area-man busted up a local home and then fled the scene after taking "several bottles of pills." When local police began the search for the man after responding to a domestic disturbance http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Of-Little-Help-In-Manhunt-102606 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/verizon.htm Iran Blocks Access to Facebook, Used by President's Campaign Opponents, Wash Post Iran blocked access to Facebook on Saturday in what opposition candidates said was an effort to sabotage their challenges to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/technology/index_xml/~3/jK1KSMVJnGQ/AR2009052401599.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/me.htm Iran Blocks Facebook... Though There Are Disagreements About The Reason, Techdirt There were a bunch of stories this weekend talking about how Facebook appeared to be blocked in Iran, with many assuming that it was due to upcoming elections, where some reformist candidates have been using the social networking site to build support. Current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is apparently claiming that he has nothing http://techdirt.com/articles/20090525/2142335005.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/me.htm COPPA 2.0: The New Battle over Privacy, Age Verification, Online Safety & Free Speech, Pff Adam Thierer & I have just released a detailed examination (PDF) of brewing efforts to expand the Children?s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 to cover adolescents and potentially all social networking sites?an approach we call ?COPPA 2.0.? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techliberation/~3/adzWIYSVNns/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/coppa.htm Cuomo Uses Craigslist To Bust Prostitution Ring... Still Blaming Craigslist, Techdirt Following Craigslist's big announcement last week on the changes to how it handles "adult" ads, Andrew Cuomo angrily denounced the changes, claiming that several weeks before, "we informed Craigslist of an impending criminal case that implicated its website." It seems the details of that case have now become clear, as a prostitution ring that http://techdirt.com/articles/20090521/0338364959.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/crime.htm Obama Expected to Announce "Cyber Czar" in a Few Days, CircleID President Obama is expected to announce late this week that he will create a "cyber czar," a senior White House official who will have broad authority to develop strategy to protect the nation's government-run and private computer networks, according to people who have been briefed on the plan? http://www.circleid.com/posts/obama_expected_to_announce_cyber_czar/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dhs.htm South Carolina AG Signs Off on Craigslist Injunction, Techlaw Sort of a fait accompli in light of statements made earlier this week, but the South Carolina Attorney General's office formally agreed this afternoon "to refrain from initiating or pursuing any prosecution against craigslist or its officers http://pblog.bna.com/techlaw/2009/05/south-carolina-ag-signs-off-on-craigslist-injunction.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/states/sc.htm South Carolina Attorney General Agrees to Temporary Restraining Order in Craigslist Suit, Citizen's Media Today, a federal district court in South Carolina issued a consent order temporarily restraining South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster from "initiating or pursuing any prosecution against craigslist or its officers and employees in relation to content posted by third parties on craigslist's website." 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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 May 28 09:41:59 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 09:41:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 5.28 :: Challenging a Recent Sec 230 Ruling :: FCC Rural BB Report :: AOLTW -> AOL - TW :: Message-ID: <630468.29574.qm@web37905.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ A theory may be so rich in descriptive possibilities that it can be made to fit any data. - Phillip Johnson-Laird The Computer and the Mind Very Interesting Map Of Comments In BB Stimulus Proceeding, Tales from the Sausage Factory In my capacity of consulting with the Benton Foundation, I have been doing work with Kate Williams, a professor of informatix at University of Illinois. Williams has been doing some (IMO) critical work around broadband sustainability. In particul... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1527 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm New Internet Parental Controls Reviews, Filtering Facts I?ve updated the list of Internet parental control reviews and put it into an easier-to-read format. The list now includes over 60 individual product reviews for parental controls written since 2006 from sources such as PC Magazine, Computer Shopper, Moral Metric, and Web User. The most reviewed products of the last three years are Cyber http://filteringfacts.org/2009/05/26/new-internet-parental-controls-reviews/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/filters.htm Public Citizen, EFF, CDT And CMLP Team Up To Question Recent Ruling On Section 230 Safe Harbor, Techdirt A few weeks back, we wrote about a court ruling that said that Yahoo was protected against actions by users, thanks to Section 230 safeharbors, but that the company had effectively given up some of that protection by promising to remove some content. While the bigger issues in the case seemed to have been decided reasonably, http://techdirt.com/articles/20090527/0316505024.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/samaritan.htm FCC Releases Report on Rural Broadband Strategy, Net Neutrality Key Says Chairman, CircleID The U.S. must preserve an open Internet in order to bring the full benefit of broadband to rural areas of the U.S., a Federal Communications Commission report on rural broadband said. http://www.circleid.com/posts/fcc_releases_report_on_rural_broadband_net_neutrality/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm Planning Guide/Roadmap Toward IPv6 Adoption Within the US Government, CircleID On behalf of the Federal CIO Council, US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced today the release of the "Planning Guide/Roadmap toward IPv6 Adoption within the US Government?. This document defines the http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090526_planning_guide_roadmap_toward_ipv6_adoption/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm Time Warner to spin off AOL, Globe and Mail Media conglomerate will buy out Google's 5-per-cent stake in AOL, and spin the lagging internet firm off to shareholders http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheGlobeAndMail-Technology/~3/6ISyOrba3rs/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/aoltw.htm AOL to Get the Boot From Time Warner by Year-End, Internet News The media colossus prepares to shed its online division. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/4kQuRFDjuWw/3822431 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/aoltw.htm AT&T Still Can't Force Arbitration Via Fine Print - No matter how many times their lawyers try..., dslreports A class action lawsuit against AT&T has been given the green light, the suit complaining that Cingular's 2004 acquisition of AT&T resulted in poor service, overcharged users, and new high ETFs for users who attempted to flee. Users who couldn't afford the high ETF had to ride out the spotty service problems caused by integration until http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Still-Cant-Force-Arbitration-Via-Fine-Print-102639 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att.htm EFF Launches Copyright Curriculum To Counter RIAA Propaganda Being Handed Out To Schools, Techdirt It's been quite troubling that for years various schools have simply accepted propaganda and totally inaccurate "teaching materials" about copyright and used them to teach students. These programs have been created by both the RIAA and the MPAA, at times. More recently, a lobbying organization backed by both of those organizations, the http://techdirt.com/articles/20090527/1836105038.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm EFF Launches 'Teaching Copyright' to Correct Entertainment Industry Misinformation, EFF As the entertainment industry promotes its new anti-copying educational program to the nation's teachers, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today launched its own "Teaching Copyright" curriculum and website to help educators give students the real story about their digital rights and responsibilities on the Internet and beyond. http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/05/27 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm And Yet Another 'Anonymous' Dataset Proves To Be Not Anonymous, Techdirt For years, we've been pointing out that there's really no such thing as an anonymized dataset. There's almost always ways to associate data back to people. We've seen it happen over and over again as companies claim they're releasing an anonymous dataset, only to discover later that it's not so difficult to re-nomynize it. In fact, there was http://techdirt.com/articles/20090525/2124075004.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/ Chairman Rockefeller Launches Investigation Into Deceptive Online "Mystery Charges", Senate Commerce No description http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=31d6ebe5-a416-4932-8412-167e6a3b996b More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/fraud.htm FCC develops strategy for rural broadband, CNET Acting FCC Chairman Michael Copps released a report on broadband strategy for rural America on Wednesday. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10250404-38.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-PoliticsandLaw More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/usf/dd.htm FCC: Net neutrality important to rural residents, CW The U.S. must preserve an open Internet in order to bring the full benefit of broadband to rural areas of the U.S., a Federal Communications Commission report on rural broadband said. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133580&source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/usf/dd.htm The FCC's New Deal for rural Internet, Ars Technica The first thing that stands out as you peruse the Federal Communications Commission's latest report on rural broadband is that it reads like it was actually written by somebody. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/the-fccs-new-deal-for-rural-internet.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/usf/dd.htm FCC REPORT ON A RURAL BROADBAND STRATEGY, FCC BRINGING BROADBAND TO RURAL AMERICA. (Dkt No. 08-65 ). Action by: ACTING CHAIRMAN MICHAEL J. COPPS by REPORT. WTB WCB http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-291012A1.pdf More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/usf/rural.htm E911 Tax Money - When It's Not Going To Boots, It Just Goes, Techdirt Your U.S.A. cellular phone bill, since the early 1990s, has had a fee levied on it by governments for E911 services. The fee differed from state to state, and was ostensibly to fund the upgrade of 911 call centers. The public safety call centers were to be readied to receive location information from cell phones, and to use that information to instruct http://techdirt.com/articles/20090521/1006294963.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/911.htm Looking Over Judge Sotomayor's Tech Law Record, Techdirt With President Obama nominating Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, Thomas O'Toole noted that she would likely be the first justice with experience in "cyberlaw" cases prior to joining the court. As such, it's at least worth looking at what she's had to say -- though, as O'Toole notes, there's really not all that much to be gleaned from her http://techdirt.com/articles/20090527/0240225022.shtml 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 Cytertelecom is now on Twitter & Facebook! 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~