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You are hereIntellectual PropertyFreePress' tantrum over Comcast-Pando agreement progress shows its not constructive/reasonableSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2008-04-16 18:49FreePress' antagonistic and borderline hysterical response to the legitimate consumer-friendly progress made in the Comcast-Pando agreement to lead a "P2P Bill of Rights and Responsibilities" shows FreePress' and the net neutrality movement's true colors and suggests that they are not interested in really advancing their stated goals, but in scoring political points and advancing their broader political agenda. They don't seem interested in solutions, because it appears that they are in the business creating and grandstanding about problems. Amazing that FreePress and SaveTheInternet had nothing good to say about this breakthrough agreement that finds common ground to start working towards what FreePress et al say they care about. Any reasonable person can see their are positive developments here and progress being made. See my post on this agreement highlighting its significance.
As I said in my post, no good deed goes unpunished. Seems like another observer agrees with this take: WSJ on Comcast's Network Management: “Markets Work” -- Internet regulation wouldn'tSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Sun, 2008-04-13 23:07
Kudos to the Wall Street Journal for a very wise editorial, “An alternative to net neutrality,” and for its clear conclusion and advice to the FCC: “that markets work.”
The Journal understands the facts and the real dynamic here -- that there is no longer much for the FCC to do now that market forces have solved the alleged problems raised against Comcast.
Simply, Comcast wisely, responsibly, and reasonably managed their network to favor quality-of-service for the vast majority of their customers, at the miniscule, intermittent expense of the biggest bandwidth hogs, who were hogging bandwidth on auto-pilot while not even attending their computers. Why "White Spaces" is just corporate welfare innovationSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2008-04-10 15:49The Hill has a good article highlighting the growing "battle" over "White Spaces", or the potential for use of the buffer spectrum bands in-between TV channels to ensure that there is no interference with TV signals. More bandwidth no cure for network management -- Japan experience showsSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2008-04-01 10:50Despite Japan having some of the fastest and cheapest broadband in the world, they still have to worry about network congestion and need to manage their networks and shape traffic, according to Adam Peake, a fellow at the International University of Japan who spoke yesterday at the Freedom to Connect Conference. The takeaway here is that many in the net neutrality movement maintain that there is no need to manage the network if providers would just add more capacity.
Peake also explained that there is a pernicious p-2-p program called Winny, which is a major culprit in the network congestion and which is near universally reviled because it is one of those pernicious p-2-p programs that give all p-2-p a bad name because the protocol routinely makes the private content on users' hard drives available for identity theives and fraudsters. Free market collaboration between BitTorrent & Comcast largely obviates need for FCC interventionSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2008-03-27 16:02Free markets work. The FCC's net neutrality policy statement has worked. Congressional policy to "preserve the free market Internet...unfettered by Federal or State regulation" has worked. In a hugely important free market development, Comcast and BitTorrent have voluntarily announced that they "will undertake a collaborative effort," together and with the rest of the industry, to "more effectively address the issues associated with rich media content and network capacity management." Why is this development such a big deal? Yahoo-Google "dis" Microsoft in OpenSocial hug -- the real reason for the new allianceSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2008-03-25 17:28Apparently, Yahoo is trying to douse itself with some "Microsoft-repellant" in joining Google's OpenSocial allance and forming a non-profit OpenSocial Foundation with Google and MySpace. While Yahoo's OpenSocial press release never mentioned Microsoft, the impetus for this change of heart by Yahoo was clearly a way to "dis" Microsoft and make Yahoo marginally less attractive to Microsoft. Professor Wu, Father of Net Neutrality, calling for "law breaking" to advance net neutrality?Submitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2008-03-13 10:42Professor Tim Wu, who coined the term "net neutrality" is reportedly now advocating "law breaking" to advance the "information commons" agenda, which believes Internet infrastrructure, spectrum and content should be publicly owned and not privately owned.
That said, it is very troubling to any public civility minded person who believes in the rule of law and respect for property, that such a prominent person as Professor Wu (who coined the term net neutrality, and who proposed Caterfone open access rules for the 700 MHz auction) would advocate "law-breaking" to advance his political agenda. Google: the Un-Privacy Company -- More Google-what's-yours-is-ours-to-give-awaySubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2008-03-07 11:34Garret Rogers of Googling Google on ZDnet has an illuminating post: "Google gives developers access to your contacts."
This is another big evidence point of a long and continued cavalier attitude to users privacy by Google (read on if you doubt this is a pattern -- these posts have most all the relevant links to all the mainstream articles on Google's cavalier attitude to Privacy): Nyet neutrality activists making big mistake defending Internet socialismSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2008-03-05 19:11Save the Internet campaign director Tim Karr in Huffington Post and columnist John Dvorak in PC Magazine are making a strategic blunder in their latest posts in responding to Andy Kessler's Wall Street Journal op ed "Internet Wrecking Ball" in bringing the net neutrality discussion back to a political philosophy discussion about whether the Internet should continue be a free market or whether Government should effectively "socialize" the Internet with net neutrality economic regulation and a implementation of an "information commons" agenda. The Google Welfare Act of 2008Submitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2008-02-15 10:56Chairman Markey's newly introduced net neutrality bill should more aptly be called "The Google Welfare Act of 2008."
Let us cut through all the platitudes, spin, fluff and distractions in this bill of which there are many. Let us also remember the useful phrase: "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth."
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