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File-sharers are content industry's "largest customers" - 0 views

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file sharing sharers recording industry

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      Jeffrey Kendall on 03 May 10
       
      proof that the artists in at least this country are still making similar revenue regardless of filesharing. The labels however are a different story.
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      Jeffrey Kendall on 03 May 10
       
      An interesting idea for record labels to make up for the lack of revenue from selling albums but if labels are taking a cut from this then should they also offer a cut rate to their album sales with the increase of profit from this sector?
  • "360 deals"
  • Jeffrey Kendall on 03 May 10
     
    Good look at how file sharing is affecting the record labels more so then the artists and how those who share files actually purchase more content then those who don't.
Jeffrey Kendall

U.S. aid to spread broadband access criticized | The Columbus Dispatch - 0 views

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broadband technology rural access rural broadband

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      Jeffrey Kendall on 13 Apr 10
       
      Companies always complain about competition when it's too late and they've already missed the band wagon. These other companies have had chances even if it was small and incremental to make improvements to their broadband offerings and they chose not too. They also had an opportunity to bid for this stimulus money and unfortunately they did not receive it. If they had they would not be complaning right now.
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      Jeffrey Kendall on 13 Apr 10
       
      this is similar to Googles plan to introduce gigabit service to smaller cities on a limited scale to see if the results are profitable. I will be interesting to see if these underdeveloped areas really do take advantage of this service or if it will be lost on them.
  • These local phone and cable companies fear that they will have to compete with governmentsubsidized broadband systems, paid for largely with stimulus dollars. If the taxpayer-funded networks siphon off customers by offering lower prices, private companies might be less likely to upgrade their lines, endangering jobs and undermining the stimulus plan's goals, they warn.
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  • Many existing systems, they note, lack the capacity to meet mush rooming demand for bandwidth. The new, stimulus-funded networks will provide far more-robust connections - many of them offering speeds of up to 100 megabits or even 10 gigabits per second to schools, libraries and other "anchor institutions." That's 20 to 2,000 times faster than the DSL and cable wires linking most U.S. homes.
  • Jeffrey Kendall on 13 Apr 10
     
    Government stimulus attempt to bring broadband access to rural areas that have limited or no high speed internet access.
Jeffrey Kendall

Court Favors Comcast in F.C.C. 'Net Neutrality' Ruling - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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net neutrality Internet Service Providers Comcast court

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      Jeffrey Kendall on 08 Apr 10
       
      I don't see a reason why Google shouldn't be sharing some of the millions their making off of YouTube and Google video advertising with service providers considering the amount of resources they are taking up but I do not agree with comcast restricting access to the site as a secondary option.
  • The court’s ruling could potentially affect content providers like Google, which owns YouTube, a popular video-sharing service. Content providers fear that Internet service companies will ask them to pay a fee to ensure delivery of material like high-definition video that takes up a lot of network capacity.
  • Jeffrey Kendall on 08 Apr 10
     
    Second page to article previously posted on net neutrality and comcast's win over the FCC
Jeffrey Kendall

Court Favors Comcast in F.C.C. 'Net Neutrality' Ruling - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...07net.html

net neutrality Internet Service Providers Comcast court

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      Jeffrey Kendall on 08 Apr 10
       
      I could understand the thoughth behind possibly wanting to slow down illegal downloads and make them less appealing to people but then to decide to slow down YouTube because it eats up bandwidth as well. At what point do they stop?
  • The decision will allow Internet service companies to block or slow specific sites and charge video sites like YouTube to deliver their content faster to users.
  • The court ruling, which came after Comcast asserted that it had the right to slow its cable customers’ access to a file-sharing service called BitTorrent,
  • Jeffrey Kendall on 08 Apr 10
     
    Anyone interested in net neutrality or the governments role in online regulation of service providers
Jeffrey Kendall

Topeka 'renames' itself 'Google, Kansas' - CNN.com - 0 views

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Internet Infrastructure infrastructure Community Reinvestment

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  • The unusual move comes as several U.S. cities elbow for a spot in Google's new "Fiber for Communities" program. The Web giant is going to install new Internet connections in unannounced locations, giving those communities Internet speeds 100 times faster than those elsewhere, with data transfer rates faster than 1 gigabit per second.
  • Google declined to comment on whether it's taking the whole "Google, Kansas" thing seriously.
  • Jeffrey Kendall on 03 Mar 10
     
    Good topic for anyone interested in internet infrastructure and private corporations improving national infrastructure.
Jeffrey Kendall

Debate: Is text messaging causing the destruction of the English language? - Helium - 0 views

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text Effect on Society Language internet online online learning cybersecurity Google privacy online education broadband iPhone

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  • They've become so used to this informal language, that they cannot write formally when they need to.
  • If you look at texting as a bad thing towards talking and ruining face to face communication skills, then lets take a look at that. If they're texting you, but won't talk to you face to face, maybe they haven't had very good confrontational skills to begin with, maybe that person wouldn't be talk to you at all if he/she didn't have texting as a way to talk to you.
  • Jeffrey Kendall on 26 Feb 10
     
    Debate as to whether or not texting is damaging the English language. Good for anyone looking at the effect of the internet on society
Jeffrey Kendall

BBC News - Australia introduces web filters - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/8413377.stm

Government Oversight cybersecurity

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      Jeffrey Kendall on 20 Feb 10
       
      A noble idea but is it an economically feasible one?
  • "We're yet to hear a sensible explanation of what this policy is for, who it will help, and why it is worth spending so much taxpayers' money on."
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      Jeffrey Kendall on 20 Feb 10
       
      At what point does this control over content become too much? Does this in any way resemble what China has attempted to do?
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  • The "noble aims" of the filter could be lost in its implementation, he warned.
  • "You have to take extreme caution in how these things are rolled out and the uses to which they're put."
  • Jeffrey Kendall on 20 Feb 10
     
    Good article for someone interested in Government oversight of internet content.
Jeffrey Kendall

Format shifting, low damages put Canada on IP watch list - 0 views

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Software Acquisition Copyright Infringement Digital Piracy

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      Jeffrey Kendall on 20 Feb 10
       
      DRM as listed by Wikipedia: Digital rights management (DRM) is a generic term for access control technologies that can be used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders and individuals to try to impose limitations on the usage of digital content and devices. It is also, sometimes, disparagingly described as Digital Restrictions Management. The term is used to describe any technology which inhibits uses (legitimate or otherwise) of digital content that were not desired or foreseen by the content provider. The term generally doesn't refer to other forms of copy protection which can be circumvented without modifying the file or device, such as serial numbers or keyfiles. It can also refer to restrictions associated with specific instances of digital works or devices.
  • The Great White North is "fast gaining a reputation as a haven where technologically sophisticated international piracy organizations can operate with virtual impunity." The country is "virtually alone" in flouting "minimum world standards" for copyright and its rules are "hopelessly outdated." Finally, "no other country is farther behind the curve in combating copyright infringement in cyberspace."
  • The ability to circumvent DRM in order to make legal uses of the content?
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      Jeffrey Kendall on 20 Feb 10
       
      All Laws are subjective on a country to country basis, it's interesting that the Canadian governemnt doesn't view this type of thing as infringement.
  • It is not at all clear that this is actually the legal position in Canada; back in 2004, judge Konrad von Finckenstein ruled that "the downloading of a song for a person's private use does not constitute infringement." (von Finkenstein is now Canada's top telecoms regulator; his ruling was changed on appeal, though the issue remains murky.)
  • What really chaps the collective hide of the copyright groups is BitTorrent trackers, though, and the IIPA document refers multiple times to the fact that "4 of the top 10 illicit BitTorrent sites in the world" are in Canada.
  • Jeffrey Kendall on 20 Feb 10
     
    Useful for anyone interested in digital piracy/acquisition and legal steps to limit copyright infringement on multiple formats.
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