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Boucher takes Comcast to task

Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA) has taken notice of Comcast's tricks literally to squeeze out BitTorrent and other P2P traffic. In an interview with CNET's Crave blog, Boucher said the cable company has made a "major mistake." "The inability of customers to share files significantly diminishes their ability to utilize...

Tags: Comcast Corp., Rick Boucher, Boucher, Cable, Network Technology, Peer To Peer (P2P), Blogging, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Personal Technology, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-10-26

Boucher's route to network neutrality may run through the Judiciary Committee

Rep. Rick Boucher of Virginia told the Freedom2Connect conference today he will try to get strong network neutrality language into the Telecommunications Act rewrite going before a House committee tomorrow, and failing that will go after the Whitacre Tiering plan through the House Judiciary Committee.In answer to a question from...

Tags: Rick Boucher

Blog posts 2006-04-04

Sneaking through the broadcast flag?

Well, it looks like it was premature to call the broadcast flag dead for the year. According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF, rumor has it that an amendment reviving the broadcast flag will be introduced Tuesday in the Senate Commerce, Justice, and Science sub-committee to be tacked on to...

Tags: Rick Boucher, Electronic Frontier Foundation, broadcast flag

Blog posts 2005-06-20

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Verizon changes tune on handset exclusivity. Will AT&T follow? Will it even matter?

updated: Verizon is planning to loosen the noose on exclusivity deals with phone manufacturers, reducing the time of those deals to just a few months - a gesture to the lawmakers in Washington who are scrutinizing these exclusivity deals and what appears to be a public calling out of AT&T...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Verizon Communications Inc., Handset, AT&T Corp., Agreement, Verizon Wireless, Exclusivity, Carrier, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-17

Net neutrality debate re-ignites

The recent blocking of BitTorrent by Comcast has re-ignited the network neutrality debate. Rep. Rick Boucher has called Comcast on the carpet, but AT&T has responded forcefully. They not only deny the need for network neutrality, they call it a positive harm, adding there is no...

Tags: Phone, Network, Comcast Corp., Duopoly, Net Neutrality, MuniWireless, Telecom & Utilities, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-25

Bill would forbid laws against muni Wi-Fi

US Representatives Rick Boucher (R-Va.) and Fred Upton (R-Mich.) this week resurrected the Community Broadband Act of 2007 PDF. The measure to block state laws from preventing municipal Wi-Fi networks was part of last year's rewrite of the Telecommunications Act, which died in the Senate.rnArs Technica prognosticates that the bill...

Tags: Municipal Wi-Fi, Broadband, Wi-Fi, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-08-03

Bill would prevent states from blocking local Wi-Fi networks

As the battle between open access and corporate control rages on in a number of contexts (net neutrality, long-distance spectrum) U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., has introduced a bill to keep states from putting up barriers to public broadband networks, reports Top Tech NewsBoucher says the Internet is not a...

Tags: State &, Local Govt, Municipal broadband

Blog posts 2007-07-18

Proposed federal shield for reporters now includes bloggers

A bill to create a federal reporters shield was amended recently to include coverage for bloggers, Ars Technica reports. Instead of requiring journalists to be tied to a news organization, the bill now defines "journalism" to focus more on the function of the job: "the gathering, preparing, collecting, photographing,...

Tags: Government technology, Congress

Blog posts 2007-05-08

FCC to decide fate of valuable wireless spectrum

The FCC will soon decide how much radio spectrum to reserve for a state-of-the-art emergency response system for police, firefighters and ambulance crews, The Wall Street Journal reports With broadcasters freeing up analog spectrum as they convert to digital, a battle is brewing between commercial interests and those that...

Tags: FCC, Mobile/wireless, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-04-06

Net neutrality, patents, broadband top new Congress's tech agenda

When the 110th Congress convenes next year, a number of tech-related initiatives will take center stage, Grant Gross writes for IDG News Service. Among them privacy, patents and network neutrality. Privacy and data breach notification With data breaches exploding all over the private and public sectors, there...

Tags: Universal Service Fund, Representative Rick Boucher, patent

Blog posts 2006-12-25

Want net neutrality? Think about who you vote for

Want net neutrality? Think about who you vote forSheeple thinking before voting? NEVER...Your living in a dream world my friend.That's really funny!Who'd'a thunk that Microsoft of all companies would wind up on the "right" side of this issue? Has anyone thanked Microsoft for its attempts yet? :)Carl RapsonChoice of...

Tags: Cable, Net Neutrality, access provider, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-04-06

Millions for Verisign, ICANN in domain deal

Here's the ICANN/Verisign deal, as reported by Declan McCullaugh on News.com today. Under a settlement agreement arising out of the SiteFinder dispute between the two groups, Verisign will be able to raise .com domain rates 7% a year - far above the inflation rate. Declan calculates that at the current...

Tags: ICANN

Blog posts 2006-03-01

Congress applauds file-sharing ruling

Congress applauds file-sharing rulingWhat a shame....Once again, money talks and people listen.I thought it was a good decision ...The way I read it, companies who release P2P products with no other real objective than to let people pass copyrighted material back and froth are the only ones who will be...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Intellectual property, U.S. Congress, file-sharing

Discussion threads 2005-06-27

Labels: One-third of CDs sold are pirated

Labels: One-third of CDs sold are piratedCause and EffectWonder if they factored in the effect of poor quality and price gauging while coming up with these numbers.I can't wait until music is sold direct from the band or singer to the fan. Bye Bye music labels. I would be more...

Tags: copy protection, CD

Discussion threads 2005-06-23

Property rights and the broadcast flag

Joe Brockmeier recently castigated members of Congress for attempting to sneak the broadcast flag into law by attaching it to an appropriations bill. Along the way, Joe agreed with Rick Boucher, representative for Virginia's Ninth Congressional district, that if the content industry wants the broadcast flag, they should agree to...

Tags: airwave, media

Blog posts 2005-06-22

Tech heavies support challenge to copyright law

Tech heavies support challenge to copyright lawA step in the right directionThe DMCA should have had that wording when it was originally conceived. A great start, but I would really be surprised if it passed.Let's hope soI hope this passes and helps prove to the nay-sayers that not everyone...

Tags: Digital media, Digital rights management (DRM), Peer to peer (P2P), Now Let, DMCA, prohibition, digital-rights management, copyright law

Discussion threads 2004-06-22

Senate to ponder permanent Net access tax ban

Senate to ponder permanent Net access tax banWhy tie one hand behind your back?Senate can't know what the future will bring, so why 'permanent' anything. Everything should be reviewed now and again.If you make it permanent, and ISPs grow strong, they will become a strong lobby group with many sponsored...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, DMCA, Internet access, tax, Multistate Tax Commission, international commerce, U.S. Senate

Discussion threads 2003-10-24