July 2008
112 posts
It’s Official! Bell Screws Resellers By... →
Much as independent ISPs feared (and I wrote about previously), Bell Canada has decided to charge them for bandwidth up front, and apply usage-based charges on the back end (although they will not…
Is there a story there that Dutch recipe croquet... →
Officials Ask Qantas to Inspect Oxygen Canisters. S not even on the ballot yet, but McCain and Obama have a position. FCC set to punish Comcast for breaking net neutrality laws. A garden filled with…
NEW YORK Reuters Olympic all around champion Paul... →
NEW YORK Reuters Olympic all around champion Paul Hamm winner of one of the most July 28th, 2008 Results of about for Saint zachariah. Show Us YourWorld Youths given cameras, turned loose in…
Scientists find quick method to make magnets →
comments? | Score: 0) Potential Death of Free Internet - Canada could be the test case Modernsteam writes: Canadian ISPs Plan Net Censorship Concerns grow that Canada’s plan will wipeout alt news…
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Haven’t kept on Net Neutrality This video gives a clear explanation of net neutrality. At the end, just substitute House of Commons for Congress when they urge you to write your representative….
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Haven’t kept on Net Neutrality This video gives a clear explanation of net neutrality. At the end, just substitute House of Commons for Congress when they urge you to write your representative….
Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP)... →
CAIP on Bell Canada traffic throttling: final
Also counts actor and Sydney Theatre Company... →
Fort Gibson High School has listed its honor roll students for the. Amy Albright, Carmen Antreasian, Lauren Baker, Shelby Baker, Timothy Bell, Wesley Bremer, Allison Burnand, Alyson Clough,…
Prof. Michael Geist | mDialog →
Prof. Michael Geist speaks at the Toronto chapter of Fair Copyright for Canada, July 24th, 2008
YouTube - FairCopyright4Canada's Channel →
“Tens of thousands of Canadians have spoken out against Bill C-61 over the past month. In addition to the letters, MP meetings, and town halls, many have created mashups, videos, comics, posters,…
Death of Free Internet is Imminent →
yet another death-the-net story, this from Canada re cable regulatorium
Boston Proposes Hike in Newsrack Fees →
Media Law: I testified Monday at a Boston City Council hearing on an proposed overhaul to Boston’s newsrack ordinance. Jessica Heslam at the Boston Herald covered the hearing and has this report:…
Internet in the corporate crosshairs →
By Libby Spencer I see Carol already flagged this story in an earlier post but I want to highlight it more fully because it’s that important. Via Avedon some troubling news from Canada. At ICH, a…
Internet in the corporate crosshairs →
By Libby Via Avedon some troubling news from Canada. At ICH, a report on a proposed test run of de-neutralizing the intertubes in the name of corporate profit. In the upcoming weeks watch for a…
CAIP Rips Bells Throtting Claims To Shreds →
In its final filing with the CRTC, the Canadian Association Of Internet Providers (CAIP) has basically taken all of Bell Canada’s lame claims about throttling and ripped them apart. In a nutshell,…
Rogers Looks For New Ways To Annoy Customers,... →
Rogers — a Canadian telco — has been attracting a lot of negative attention lately between deliberately disabling notifications for cellular roaming charges, setting ridiculous iPhone pricing…
CAIP on Bell Canada traffic throttling: final →
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The CBC has picked up on the latest, and final, CAIP submission to the CRTC over the Bell Canada traffing throttling scandal. Bell implies P2P is the, “motive force…
Rogers Looks For New Ways To Annoy Customers,... →
Rogers — a Canadian telco — has been attracting a lot of negative attention lately between deliberately disabling notifications for cellular roaming charges, setting ridiculous iPhone pricing…
But the only way such a massive error could have... →
Mobilize people in district during the August recess. Judging by the crowd in attendance at Pearl Jam s back to back shows in Camden, New Jersey over Memorial Day weekend, the band is addressing…
Shutting Down The Free In Free Speech →
Canadian ISPs Plan Net Censorship. Concerns grow that Canada’s plan will wipe out alternative news sites and spread to U.S. By Mike Finch A net-neutrality activist group has uncovered plans for the…
Shutting Down The Free In Free Speech →
Canadian ISPs Plan Net Censorship. Concerns grow that Canada’s plan will wipe out alternative news sites and spread to U.S. By Mike Finch A net-neutrality activist group has uncovered plans for the…
Save the Internet →
Dandelion Salad Thought it funny that they mentioned the Internet along with having hot water. I’ve haven’t had hot water at my house for 3 years now. Hot water is a luxury, while an Internet…
Death of Free Internet →
Death of Free Internet Já escrevi nesse Carnet sobre a perigosa quebra de neutralidade da rede. Na petição, que tem agora quase 78 mil assinaturas, contra a lei do Senador Eduardo Azeredo, colocamos…
Bell Faces Class Action Lawsuit In Ontario Over... →
You’ll remember that the Union des consommateurs launched a class action lawsuit against Bell not to long ago in Quebec. Now that class action lawsuit has been extended to Ontario (note: this is in…
Rogers latest ISP to "help" customers with DNS... →
Rogers is redirecting customers who fail to accurately type a DNS to an ad-laden site. It is a question as to whether or not this violates network neutrality principles.
Death of Free Internet is Imminent - Canada Will... →
Dandelion Salad by Kevin Parkinson Global Research, July 20, 2008 http://realitycheck.typepad.com In the last 15 years or so, as a society we have had access to more information than ever before in…
Death of Free Internet is Imminent - Canada Will... →
Death of Free Internet is Imminent - Canada Will Become Test Case dandelionsalad Made an interesting post today on dandelionsalad.wordpress.com The first paragraph is here: Dandelion Salad by Kevin…
Rogers Hijacks Domain Name System, Puts Yahoo! Ads... →
Comcast broke the rules →
Earlier this year, Comcast defended its position on its questionably lawful practice of “diurnal network pattern” (more active in the daytime than nighttime) stoppage, which informed users know as…
Throttling Is Good for Innovation, Claims Canadian... →
Rogers violates net neutrality by hijacking failed... →
Bell Can’t Prove They Need To Throttle, So Now... →
You’ll recall that Bell started throttling independent ISPs, which in turn set off a debate about net neutrality in Canada, which in turn led to the CRTC asking them to prove that they need to…
A New Low For Rogers - They Do DNS Redirects When... →
Its bad enough that Rogers was caught altering web pages (which ticked off Google). But now it seems that Rogers appears to be redirecting invalid DNS requests to their own search and advertising…
Rogers Violates net neutrality →
In what appears to be a violation of Net Neutrality by Rogers Cable, Digital Home readers are reporting that Rogers High Speed Internet service has begun redirecting customers “Server not found…
Bell Can’t Prove They Need To Throttle, So Now... →
You’ll recall that Bell started throttling independant ISPs, which in turn set off a debate about net neutrality in Canada, which in turn led to the CRTC asking them to prove that they need to…
"As I was Saying".....What to do about Carbon... →
While critics of carbon taxes like to point out the incentives that high energy prices give consumers to conserve, two headlines from yesterday’s news illustrate perfectly the double-edged quality of…
Create a video describing Bill C61 in 61 seconds →
You can do it! More information can be found here. From Michael Geist: “Tens of thousands of Canadians have spoken out against Bill C-61 over the past month. In addition to the letters, MP meetings,…
Squawk Box - July 16, 2008 - Net Neutrality →
Wow, This was a great discussion It’s clear that the debate about Net Neutrality is contentious. Having recently seen some state legislation aimed at reform that then ended up being more…
CAIP seeks extension for Bell Canada response →
p2pnet news view P2P | Freedom:- Bell Canada recently asked for, and was granted, an extension for its newest submission to the CRTC on demands from the association representing 55 of Canada’s…
Taxation →
Income-Tax Authorities : There shall be the following classes of income-tax authorities for the purposes of the Act 116, namely:- (a) the Central Board of Direct Taxes constituted under the Central…
ALERT: Telecom/ISP corporados are plotting to... →
Dandelion Salad By Mike Finch www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE http://www.americanfreepress.net/ July 14, 2008 Canadian ISPs Plan Net Censorwww.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE http://www.americanfreepress.net/ July 14, 2008 Canadian ISPs Plan Net Censorship Concerns grow that Canada’s plan will wipeout alt news…
Is Bell Canada trying to confuse throttling... →
P2P:- Is Bell Canada deliberately trying to confuse watchers of the bandwidth throttling, net neutrality, debate by comparing what it does on the retail side, Sympatico, with what it’s obliged to do…
ALERT: Telecom/ISP corporados are plotting to... →
Dandelion Salad By Mike Finch www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE July 14, 2008 Canadian ISPs Plan Net Censorship Concerns grow that Canada’s plan will wipeout alt news sites and spread to U.S. Time to…
Canadians Are Wired →
According to eMarketer, more than 22 million Canadians, or two-thirds of the population, will have regular access to the Internet this year. By 2012, that number will rise to 25 million. While the…
Blue Box #80: VoIPShield vulnerabilities, what is... →
Synopsis: Blue Box #80: VoIPShield vulnerabilities, what is ethical disclosure?, SIP trunking, VoIP security news, new nomadism, and much more… Welcome to Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast #80,…
Business Takes Sides in Net Neutrality Debate →
Jul 14, 2008 04:30 AM Michael Geist For most of the past two years, the net neutrality issue, which focuses on equal treatment of Internet traffic, was limited to academics and consumer groups…
Canadian ISP Alliance Forms For New Media Fight →
Canadian ISP Alliance Forms For New Media Fight Canada’s leading telecommunications and cable companies have formed the Canadian ISP Alliance as they gear up for the forthcoming fight at the CRTC…
Canadian ISPs Plan Net Censorship →
Source: American Free Press - Mike Finch A net-neutrality activist group has uncovered plans for the demise of the free Internet by 2010 in Canada. By 2012, the group says, the trend will be global….
Competition Bureau warns CRTC to back off on New... →
As reported by Michael Geist, Canada’s Competition Bureau sent a submission to the CRTC to warn them of interfering with the current new media regulations debate. I think these guys want to be the…
Bell Canada To Google: FOAD! →
The latest little tidbit that was in the new Bell submission from last week has managed to catch the attention of the CBC. In short, Bell Canada has responded to Google’s charges that throttling…
