Comcast is apparently too busy drafting its “P2P Bill of Rights and Responsibilities” to bother attending the daylong hearing into its dubious “network management” practices. An odd decision for a company so intent on “clarifying” the practices ISPs should use to manage P2P applications running on their networks. But according to a company spokesperson, Comcast [...]
It’s quite a road-to-Damascus conversion Comcast is having these days, isn’t it?
Back in February the cable company claimed it was perfectly reasonable for it to throttle or degrade the performance of peer-to-peer file-sharing services on its broadband network. But when FCC chairman Kevin Martin suggested the agency was mulling action against it, Comcast had a moment of clarity.
It’s a Comcastic day for BitTorrent. This morning the cable provider, under fire for degrading the performance of the peer-to-peer file-sharing service on its broadband network, announced plans to develop better ways to manage peer-to-peer traffic.
The concept is simple: The music industry forms a collecting society, which then offers file-sharing music fans the opportunity to ‘get legit’ in exchange for a reasonable regular payment, say $5 per month. So long as they pay, the fans are free to keep doing what they are going to do anyway–share the music they [...]
If Fouad Mourtada spends the next three years in prison for creating a fake profile of a Moroccan prince on Facebook, it won’t have been the social-networking site that put him there. Facebook insists it didn’t help the Moroccan government identify the 26-year-old engineer as the author of crown prince Moulay Rachid’s fake Facebook [...]
Less than 5% of Pakistan’s citizens have Internet access, but those who do must have nasty tempers. Fearing that a reportedly anti-Islamic YouTube video would incite civil unrest, the Pakistani government ordered the country’s Internet service providers to block access to the video site, inadvertently triggering a two-hour long, global outage of YouTube yesterday.
Seems Pakistan [...]
As Sun Tzu once wrote, “Keep your customers close and your enemies closer, and should someone be both, kick them off the Internet.” At least that’s what he appears to have written in the recording industry’s well-worn copy of “The Art of War.”
Earlier this year, the British Phonographic Industry suggested that the British government pass [...]
If the recording industry had its head any further in the sand, they’d have to insert a breathing tube.
Consider the British Phonographic Industry’s latest stroke of brilliance for combating illegal file-sharing: kick casual file-sharers off the Internet. Seems the BPI would like the British government to pass “three strikes” legislation that would require Internet service [...]
Digital music sales are soaring, but that hasn’t stopped the recording industry from continuing to spin its long-running woe-is-me tale of piracy and declining revenues.
According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s 2008 Digital Music Report (PDF), global digital music sales rose to $2.9 billion in 2007, up from $2.1 billion in 2006.
Now that [...]
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1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
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