April 2012
7 posts
“Some interns fetch coffee. Nick Miller, a 26-year-old intern at online-video...”
– Intern Leads Battle With Cable TV as Proposed Rule Threatens Boxee - Bloomberg
“Record labels have a very strong voice when it comes to arguing for their...”
– Berners-Lee: Don’t let record labels upset web openness
“USTR is clamping down on public participation to minimize the spread of...”
– More Tumult at the TPP: Secret negotiations against Internet Freedom continue in Chile; Big Pharma allies attempt to shut down critics’ event (again) « CitizenVox
“No matter how much Netflix Inc. is willing to pay for the rights, some online...”
– News from The Associated Press
“Did my position on this issue evolve over the last 12 months? I am not ashamed...”
– MPAA’s former tech policy chief turns SOPA foe | Privacy Inc. - CNET News
“Michael Weinberg, senior staff lawyer of Public Knowledge, a nonprofit group...”
– How to Budget Megabytes Becomes More Urgent for Users - NYTimes.com
“But Hastings hints at an ulterior motive later in his Facebook post: “Once...”
– Reed Hastings: “I want my HBO Go” - Variety
March 2012
18 posts
“In the meantime, however, entry into the broadband market is controlled by...”
– Keeping the Internet Competitive by Timothy B. Lee
“The guarantee of landline telephone service at almost any address, a legal right...”
– RPT-COLUMN-An end to phones in every home? David Cay Johnston | Reuters
“But according to Michael Weinberg, a staff attorney at advocacy group Public...”
– SXSW: The Looming Legal Battles Over 3D Printing - Popular Mechanics
“Verizon waved a white flag, implicitly agreeing not to compete with Comcast on...”
– Water, Internet Access and Swagger: These Guys Are Good | Epicenter | Wired.com
This fantastic opinion piece by Susan Crawford on the Comcast/NBCU merger, Verizon’s agreements with Comcast, and the future of cable and Internet access.
Hacking Politics: People Powered Politics →
hackingpolitics:
Ernesto Falcon
Director of Government Affairs
Public Knowledge (publicknowledge.org)
Ernesto Falcon has been the Director of Government Affairs for Public Knowledge since 2010 after having worked in telecommunications policy on Capitol Hill for six years. His work involves…
“In a face-off with more than 40,000 landline workers whose contracts expire next...”
– AT&T-Union Alliance Frays - WSJ.com
Remember when AT&T was propping up union support for its failed takeover T-Mobile? (Ahem, despite the guarantee of thousands of lost jobs from the transaction.) This is how AT&T thanks them. Who’s surprised?
Apple's new iPad can max out your data plan in 10... →
Yup. We’ve been talking about 4G + Data Caps = Magic Beans for months.
“Now a big Swiss drug company, Novartis, may be one legal step away from upending...”
– India’s Supreme Court to Hear Dispute on Drug Patents - NYTimes.com
Lego shuttle boldly heads to the stratosphere |... →
February 2012
10 posts
Oscar voters' demographics less diverse than those... →
A Los Angeles Times study found that academy voters are markedly less diverse than the public, and even more monolithic than many in the film industry may suspect.
Oscar voters are nearly 94 percent Caucasian and 77 percent male, the Times found. Blacks are about 2 percent of the academy, and Latinos are less than 2 percent.
Oscar voters have a median age of 62, the study showed. People younger...
“If you’re scratching your head, you’re not the only one....”
– Key Techdirt SOPA/PIPA Post Censored By Bogus DMCA Takedown Notice | Techdirt
“Validas raises the question of whether the carriers were throttling simply...”
– Is Throttling Smartphones Pointless? Study Suggests So - NYTimes.com
Pinterest releases optional code to prevent... →
Genachowski Pushes for Cybersecurity Code of... →
Harold Feld, legal director of the fair use group, emphasized the FCC’s defense of the open Internet and privacy protections. But he also said that the group welcomed the multi-stakeholder model and “believes voluntary participation from the Internet community of providers and consumers will result in a stronger Internet for everyone without compromising the open Internet everyone...
“AT&T Inc.’s board cut CEO Randall Stephenson’s 2011 pay by $2.08...”
– Randall Stephenson, AT&T CEO , Takes $2 Million Pay Cut Over Failed T-Mobile Deal
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Falcone's Telecom Troubles Mount - WSJ.com →
“The problem for Falcone is that it’s like buying Florida real estate and not just discovering that you bought swampland, but that it’s a toxic waste dump,” said Harold Feld, legal director for Public Knowledge, a public-interest group which supported LightSquared’s proposal.
Who was Really Behind the Internet Blackout Day? A... →
Our Social Media Week panel livestream starts in about 40 minutes! Tune in and chat with #smwSOPA
Tune in to the livestream of our panel on SOPA /... →
Washington Post →
” The full-time advocates of freedom of information, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge, have been fighting for decades to help create the legal environment that makes our work possible. We cannot waste that effort by failing to speak in our own defense when that environment is threatened.”
Op-ed by @jimmy_wales and @mindspillage in @washingtonpost on...
January 2012
9 posts
22 EU Countries Ratify ACTA, Key Parliament Member... →
Most member states of the European Union have signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) at a ceremony in Tokyo, Japan on Thursday, Jan. 26. ACTA is a global treaty that tries to normalize copyright protection and IP standards. It’s similar to SOPA and PIPA, proposed U.S. laws whic…
Watch(via Information Diet Livestream)
Our Director of Government Affairs is on right now, explaining how things work (or don’t work on the hill with SOPA and PIPA)
Freakonomics » How Much Do Music and Movie Piracy... →
Supporters of stronger intellectual property enforcement — such as those behind the proposed new Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) bills in Congress — argue that online piracy is a huge problem, one which costs the U.S. economy between $200 and $250 billion per year, and is responsible for the loss of 750,000 American jobs.
These numbers seem truly dire: a $250 billion per...
Ship or Die: Contact Congress - Talk directly to... →
shipordie:
Today Ben and I are announcing the release of a new iPhone app called Contact Congress. What it does is really simple: grabs your location (or you can give us an address), locates your representatives, and lets you get on the phone with them in two taps.
Why we built it
Like many…
Watch(via LiveLeak.com - Al Gore comments on SOPA)
December 2011
5 posts
livin' the dream: A Step-by-Step Guide to Transfer... →
jeffepstein:
Follow these step-by-step directions to transfer all of your domains from GoDaddy to NameCheap.
I’m Boycotting GoDaddy because they are pro-SOPA.
Step 1: Login to GoDaddy and get to the domain manager.
Step 2: Select all domains
Step 3: Click on the “Locking Icon”
Step 4:…
Sense & censor ability: Congress defers SOPA vote... →
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Castro’s answer to social networks? A Cuban...
univisionnews:
Red Social has been allegedly set up by Cuba’s Ministry of Education. It’s impossible to access from outside the island. (Screenshot by La Chiringa de Cuba)
By SANDRO MAIRATA Channel: Latin American Affairs
Launched under the radar a few days ago, “Red Social” (literally, “Social Network”), is Castro’s regime latest attempt to squeeze the information flow in Cuba.
The site mimics...
November 2011
3 posts
