July 2009
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p2pnet World Headlines - July 31, 2009 →
RIAA Seeks Up to $150,000 a Song in File Sharing Tria l Wired The Recording Industry Association of America is going for the jugular in an ongoing file sharing trial in Massachusetts, urging a…
Shaw Cable Launches Price War in Vancouver –... →
Shaw’s flyer distributed to Novus customers (click to enlarge) Letting Shaw get away with this will let them buy up competitors like Novus for a pocket full of Toonies. [Update 6:12pm EDT] — Welcome…
p2pnet World Headlines - July 23, 2009 →
French Anti-Piracy Sanctions Delayed Billboard The French music business has expressed its disappointment after the National Assembly president’s decision to postpone until September the vote on the…
Canada’s Copyright Consultation →
I’ve been bleating for some time now about how the Harper government was trying to jam through Bill C-61 in the hopes of looking good in that particular shade of brown lipstick the U.S. media lobby…
Canada’s Liberal MPs resist ‘net surveillance-Star →
LAW BYTES Liberal shift may assure Net neutrality Michael Geist The Star: June 22, 2009 http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/654448 Last Thursday began as an ordinary, rainy spring day in…
Copyright Consultation Launches: Time For... →
Go forth and protect the Internet. Do it now! Before all that’s left are crappy ISP portals , linking is forbidden , and the entire alternative media revolution goes in the memory-hole on the pretext…
Michael Geist - In Case You Missed It: Reflecting... →
Net hearing disclosures ‘woefully inadequate’ →
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- One wouldn’t have thought regulatory hearings on net traffic management practices [read bandwidth throttling], “held in windowless rooms in Gatineau, Quebec in…
Michael Geist - CRTC Network Management Hearing,... →
Canadian ISPs: “Consumers will make good choices... →
Poll Says Canadians Support Bandwidth... →
Someone once told me that there are lies , dammed lies, and statistics. Here’s an example of the latter. According to the Globe and Mail , 60% Canadians supports some from of reasonable bandwidth…
CRTC Network Management Hearing, Day Seven: Bell →
Day seven of the CRTC’s network management hearing featured just one company: Bell. As the prime target for much of the criticism associated with traffic management, Bell executives faced questions…
CIPPIC on Twitter: final net neutrality tweets →
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Today is the last of six days in the CRTC hearings into net neutrality in Canada. CIPPIC ( Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clini ) has been covering the…
Cyber Attacks Traced to the U.S., Britain →
And, yet again, it comes out that officials ( South Korean officials , in this case) have jumped on a story as a convenient pretext to push a policy agenda with no evidence to back up their claims….
Canadians Find Traffic Shaping "Reasonable" →
Slashdot Technology Story | 2009. Is there a lack of education about the long-term effects of traffic shaping on free communication? Or are net neutrality advocates just out of touch?”
Harris-Decima poll on net-neutrality is shameful... →
A Harris-Decima poll just recently reminded everyone why direct democracy is a profoundly dangerous concept to tinker with….
Bell Shows Up At The CRTC Hearings…. Their... →
Today was the last day of the CRTC hearings into Bandwidth Management, and Bell must really be smoking some grade “A” crack. Because they made this statement to the CRTC : Bell must slow the…
CRTC Network Management Hearing, Day Six: Union... →
Day six of the CRTC’s network management hearings opened with a final consumer group (Union des Consommateurs) and closed with three of Canada’s biggest ISPs - Rogers, Videotron, and Shaw. Bell was…
‘Users don’t notice traffic throttling’ →
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- University of Ottawa law student Sean Murtha is back with Day Six of the traffic throttling and net neutrality in Canada saga, once again posting in Michael Geist ’s…
CRTC to rule on Internet 'traffic shaping' - The... →
I hope they go the right way this time.
Neutrality →
Neutrality →
‘Users don’t notice traffic throttling’ →
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- University of Ottawa law student Sean Murtha is back with Day Six of the traffic throttling and net neutrality in Canada saga, once again posting in Michael Geist ’s…
Rogers To CRTC: Slowing Speed Of P2P For The Good... →
From the “I can’t believe that they said that with a straight face” department, comes the result of Rogers appearance in front of the CRTC hearings into Bandwidth Management . Here’s what they had to…
Net neutrality: ‘Fair forms of discrimination’ →
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- University of Ottawa law student Sean Murtha was in the reporting seat for Day Five, and the end of Week One, of the traffic throttling and net neutrality in Canada…
CRTC net neutrality hearing: Day V transcript →
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The CRTC ‘investigation’ traffic throttling / net neutrality in Canada is now into Day 5. University of Ottawa student Sean Murtha has a report of Day Five on …
CIPPIC net neutrality on Twitter: Day VI →
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Last Friday, we wound up the CIPPIC traffic throttling / net neutrality in Canada Twitter coverage of Day Five of the CRTC hearings a tad early, missing the last…
Don’t regulate traffic management, Internet... →
These large ISPs knew when they entered the market that the Internet was conceived of as being transparent to all forms of data traffic. ‘Net Neutrality’ was one of the fundamental principles of the…
Midday Open Thread →
It’s just 30 days until progressive activists from across the country (and beyond) will gather in Pittsburgh for the grassroots event of the year—the annual Netroots Nation convention. Join us August…
CRTC Net Neutrality, Internet Overcharging, &... →
An additional day of hearings has been scheduled. When the final hearing is held, this article will be updated to include the remaining transcripts and audio, as available. CRTC Review of the…
Competition could clear internet congestion: small... →
Michael Geist - CRTC Network Management Hearings,... →
Michael Geist - CRTC Network Management Hearings,... →
Surprise! Cogeco, Barrett Xplore And Telus Say... →
Cogeco, Barrett Xplore, and Telus made an appearance in front of the CRTC Bandwidth Management hearings yesterday and to the shock of nobody, they both argued that rules that govern how Bandwidth…
Canadian Content Producers Take a Stand for Net... →
Oh, Canada: Your health care is universal, your forests are green, and your creative industries are against BitTorrent throttling. The Canadian Film & Television Production Association (CFTPA) and…
CRTC Network Management Hearings, Day Four: CAIP,... →
Day four of the CRTC’s network management hearings featured three of the world’s leading experts on networks along with a trio of ISP perspectives. The panelists included the Canadian Association of…
Terence Corcoran: More bandwidth, not more rules →
Net neutrality is just one more investment killer By Terence Corcoran W hat Canadian business and telecommunications consumers need is more broadband — bigger, fatter, wider and faster networks that…
CRTC Hears Two Ways To Deal With Bandwidth... →
So let’s assume that you want to solve the problem of ISPs who employ Bandwidth Management. You’ve got two options according to those who testified in front of the CRTC hearings yesterday . If you’re…
Net neutrality: ‘consumer should be choosing’ →
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- University of Ottawa student Yael Wexler is still on the traffic throttling and net neutrality in Canada beat, posting in Michael Geist ’s blog. “Day four of the…
CRTC Network Management Hearing, Day Five: Telus,... →
Day five of the CRTC’s network management hearings featured at trio of ISPs, each offering a different perspective on network management issues: Telus (DSL), Cogeco (cable), and Barrett Xplore…
CIPPIC net neutrality on Twitter: Day V →
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- It’s a wrap for Day Five of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) ‘investigation’ into traffic throttling / net neutrality in Canada….
Michael Geist - CRTC Network Management Hearings,... →
Michael Geist - CRTC Network Management Hearings,... →
Filmakers And The Disabled Argue Against Bandwidth... →
The CRTC hearings into Bandwidth Management entered day 3, and opponents lined up to tell the CRTC that they need to make Bandwidth Management verboten in Canada . Film makers were the first to say…
Canadian Content Producers Take a Stand for Net... →
Oh, Canada: Your health care is universal, your forests are green, and your creative industries are against BitTorrent throttling. The Canadian Film & Television Production Association (CFTPA) and…
CRTC to decide fate of the internet this week →
This week in an unassuming room in Gatineau, Quebec the CRTC (Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission) is hearing from Canadians on the issue of net neutrality. Canada, unlike most…
‘No more Tim Horton’s’ →
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Australian economist and p2pnet contributor Tom Koltai launched a steamy online debate over whether such a thing as net neutrality is even possible, let alone…
Net neutrality: ‘horrifically ambiguous’ →
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Net neutrality can’t happen. Not ever , says Tom Koltai. Repeatedly. But could the term itself be as much of a problem as the problem? It’s, “horrifically ambiguous,…
Don’t be neutral on Net Neutrality →
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- What is (or isn’t) net neutrality? The Wikipedia has an answer, defining it as a “neutral broadband network” free of, “restrictions on content, sites, or platforms,…
Bell, Rogers, ‘not dominant in Ontario’ →
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Yael Wexler, a law student at the University of Ottawa, has taken over from fellow student Frances Munn reporting on the CRTC ‘investigation’ traffic throttling / net…
