Copyright Makes Strange Bedfellows
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Tag: Politics
Democracy On an iPhone: Why 2016 Could Be A Big Year For Meerkat and Periscope
A huge amount of money sloshing around and through Meerkat, Periscope and other real-time social media apps over the next 18 months. Read More …
Slippery SOPA
Copyright Critics of the failed Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act (SOPA/PIPA) have been having some fun with some internal RIAA and IFPI materials regarding the music industry’s anti-piracy efforts that leaked to TorrentFreak last week. Part of the cache includes a PowerPoint presentation delivered by RIAA deputy general counsel Victoria Sheckler to Read More …
Neutrality on net neutrality is not an option
Continuing its campaignagainst the FCC’s planned net neutrality regulation, the Washington Post launched its new Post Tech blog Thursday with an interviewwith Carnegie Mellon computer science professor and net-neutrality skeptic, David Farber. According to Farber: [I]t’s very hard to define [“neutrality” and “reasonable network management”]. The problem here is everyone talks about reasonable network management, but if Read More …
The Washington Post's muddled view of net neutrality
The net neutrality debate, already heating up here in Washington since FCC chairman Julius Genachowski’s speech to the Brookings Institution last week, got additional fuel on Monday when the Washington Post weighed in with an oddly snide editorial opposing the chairman’s proposal to regulate the way ISPs manage their networks. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski Read More …