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P2P legislation is smart next step in piracy education

Honesty not intelligence"One of the things that has always bothered me about the Recording Industry Association of America and its file-sharing lawsuits is that, for many of those people, their biggest crime is being uninformed."One of the things that has always bothered me about ZDNET and its file-sharing posts: the...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), P2P legislation, music, file-sharing, P2P

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

P2P legislation is smart next step in piracy education

One of the things that has always bothered me about the Recording Industry Association of America and its file-sharing lawsuits is that, for many of those people, their biggest crime is being uninformed. I can't tell you many of my own friends and extended family members -...

Tags: Education, P2P, File-sharing, Music, P2P Legislation, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-02

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Net neutrality: a faster Internet for all

If I pay my ISP for fast speeds, I should get it.If I pay my ISP for fast speeds, I should get it.I do [b]not[/b] want my internet to slow down just because some person on the [b]other[/b] end didn't pay for priority traffic.Net Neutrality had to happen in the...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Internet Service Provider, Net Neutrality, faster Internet, Toll-Free, population density, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...

Tags: Ubuntu, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Data Center, Information Technology, P2P, Palm Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Apple Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Tablets, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-05

Justice says $1.9 million verdict is constitutional

Are there no restraints built into the constitution ...... concerning punishments fitting the crime when it comes to statutary law? Does this mean that it is perfectly legal for Congress to pass a law stating that it is e.g. okay to amputate a man's hands or even hang him, if...

Tags: Financial accounting, RIAA, activist judge, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

File sharing leaks government secrets

File sharing leaks government secretsSecuring a network...is a very simple task. However, it does require that the administrators actually be qualified and knowledgeable about their profession. During my 20 years in the technology profession it has become quite obvious that maybe 2 out of 10 professionals are actually qualified to...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Peer to peer (P2P), digital-rights management, government secret, file-sharing

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

The case for a Global Digital Public Library Network policy

By Bill Kallman This guest blog is penned by Bill Kallman, CEO of Scayl, a direct, unlimited secure email solution, a longtime VC and real estate investor. He was a founding director of Streamcast, one of the defendant's in the landmark MGM v Grokster ruling. He holds...

Tags: Google Inc., Network, Radio, Library, Digital Library, Library Network, GDPLN, Content Industry, Copyright War, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-05-22

Stop suing tech investors over copyright!

Stop suing tech investors over copyright!Erroneous assumptionAssuming, of course, that there's somebody in Washington actually interested in doing something logical and reasonable. Hardee har harI need more info, but find myself supporting the suit.Look, I hate the RIAA/MPAA, DRM and proprietary lock in strategies, the whole shooting match. ...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Financial accounting, Digital media, Investment, Stop suing tech investor, STOP SUING, tech investor, investor

Discussion threads 2009-02-27

Legal concerns stop researchers from disrupting the Storm Worm botnet

What if security researchers were able to disrupt the leftovers of the Storm Worm botnet thanks to a flaw in its communication model allowing them to redirect infected hosts and eventually disinfect them, but fearing legal action have their hands tied? At the 25th Chaos Communication Congress,...

Tags: Node, Malware, Worm, Stormfucker, Waledac, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-01-16

Ou: Google hypocritical on neutrality

Ou: Google hypocritical on neutralityLet's go back and look at the argument of Net Neutralityhttp://www.jedreport.com/2008/12/lessigs-defense.htmlThe whole argument that Net Neutrality proponents made is that they don't want premium content delivery using fast lanes. Caching is warp speed lane prioritization. Their whole argument is that it prevents the little...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Content Caching, Net Neutrality, Internet Service Provider, QoS, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-12-16

RIAA loses $222K verdict against Jammy Thomas

RIAA loses $222K verdict against Jammy ThomasHer turn nowI hope she turns around and files a MULTI MILLION dollar suit against the RIAA. If "offering a copyrighted work to the public" is a crime, then we must by definition force the closure of all public libraries. . .This poor...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, RIAA, Jammy Thomas, verdict

Discussion threads 2008-09-25

Joe Biden loves RIAA, DRM; hates encryption, George Bush

Does Joe Biden have more in common with Metallica's Lars Ulrich than Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg? CNET colleague Declan McCullagh has a superb analysis of Dem. vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, who has an interesting (read: depressing) voting history when it comes to tech issues. ...

Tags: George W. Bush, Declan McCullagh, Digital-rights Management, Presidential Candidate, RIAA, Vice, Encryption, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Federal Government, Professional Development, Peer To Peer (P2P), Security, Government, Career, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Cerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over again

Vint Cerf, one of the co-inventors of the underlying technology that makes the Web work, now Google's Internet evangelist, has issued a call for throughput-based pricing by ISPs. This in response to the Comcast ruling by the FCC, which ordered the cable carrier to stop interfering with certain kinds of...

Tags: Vint Cerf, Network, IP Television, Net Neutrality, Pricing Strategy, Carrier, Cerf, 6MBps, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Federal Government, Internet, TVs, Pricing, Broadband Internet, Tv & Home Theater, Networking, Government, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Telecommunications, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-08-05

No penalties for colleges that don't enforce anti-P2P

No penalties for colleges that don't enforce anti-P2PSlippery Slope argumentationYep, once they have the monitoring laws in place, next they will want to monitor a whole lot more. It is a trojan horse, but then Joe McCarthy isn't too far away in US history.Of course, Good ol' Joe needed a...

Tags: anti-P2P, monitoring

Discussion threads 2008-08-04

Comcast's true speeds and the BitTorrent deal

So, I talked to former ZD technical director and editor at large George Ou last week. He's been looking at Comcast's claims for its DOCSIS 3.0 rollout in Minneapolis. I passed along Comcast's projections that the service would 50 Mbps downstream and 5 Mbps up. ...

Tags: BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., Mbps, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Networking, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-04-09

A geek's trip to Capitol Hill on Network Management

A geek's trip to Capitol Hill on Network ManagementGood Job on your part.Very nice yet some what biased description. Not that I don't doubt that your observation was legitimate. You have successfully painted Burstein as an unorganized loud mouth that wants people to accept his word until proven otherwise....

Tags: Network administration, NETWORKING, network management, network

Discussion threads 2008-03-03

Britain threatens ISPs with possible piracy legislation

Britain threatens ISPs with possible piracy legislationRE: Britain threatens ISPs...That is easy!!![b]Just ask Comcast![/b] They have been doing it already in the US.They will need to ban...All Internet encryption and monitor all P2P traffic!What else can we expect from any politician! Just wait until the nation of ISLAM takes over...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Peer to peer (P2P), Government, Internet Service Provider, piracy legislation, P2P, file-sharing

Discussion threads 2008-02-22

European archives release vintage films online

European archives release vintage films onlineMore competition is good, especially if it's free!This type of offering is great for a number of reasons: it brings art that was essentially lost back into the mainstream, and it presents a wider range of content to the public that will compete with the...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), MORE COMPETITION, public domain, domain, cartel, DMCA, DVD

Discussion threads 2008-02-12

New torrent technology a serial industry killer

New torrent technology a serial industry killerBittie will likelyBittie will likely wet his trousers over this.:o)Nice work DanantList of torrent RSS feeds of practically every showThis site has a long list of torrent feeds for practically every popular TV show, formatted for Miro. You can even view the list...

Tags: broadband, cable, industry killer, serial industry killer

Discussion threads 2008-01-14

Microsoft and Samba finally come to terms over Windows protocols

Microsoft and Samba finally come to terms over Windows protocolsThis is great news for me!As someone who has 2 Linux servers and multiple Windows desktops, Samba is an extremely important part of my home network. While Samba works really well right now with both XP and Vista, this agreement can't...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Peer to peer (P2P), Microsoft Windows, Samba, Microsoft Corp., Windows protocol

Discussion threads 2007-12-20