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RIAA Tells FCC: ISPs Need to Be Copyright Cops - PC World - 0 views

  • The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should avoid adopting strict net neutrality rules that would limit broadband providers' flexibly to "address" illegal online file sharing, the Recording Industry Association of America said in comments filed with the FCC on Thursday.
  • The FCC should not only avoid rules prohibiting ISPs from blocking illegal file trading, but it should actively encourage ISPs to do so, the RIAA said.
  • Other groups called on the FCC to stay out of the copyright enforcement business. If ISPs are required to check for copyright infringement, they could interfere with legal online activities, said six digital rights and business groups, including Public Knowledge, the Consumer Electronics Association and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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  • ISPs are "poorly placed to determine whether or not transfers of content are infringing or otherwise unlawful, a task generally reserved to attorneys, courts, and law enforcement," the groups said in a filing with the FCC. "In short, the issue raised by broadening the 'reasonable network management' exception to include copyright enforcement and the blocking of unlawful content is not whether ISPs may undertake these efforts, but rather whether they may inflict collateral damage on lawful traffic when they do so."
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    The RIAA argues ISP's should perform copyright enforcement, and claim Net Neutrality blocks such efforts.
scwalton

SeaChange Delivers Set-Top, Mobile Phone and PC Video Place-Shifting at Cable... - 0 views

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    "next week, SeaChange International (NASDAQ: SEAC) will demonstrate how cable operators can create seamless subscriber experiences across televisions, broadband-connected PCs and smartphones including Apple's iPhone."
michael curtin

As More Phones Stream Video, Networks Are Slowed - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    iPad escalates data demands. Video a huge data hog.
scwalton

FMQB: Radio Industry News, Music Industry Updates, Arbitron Ratings, Music News and more! - 1 views

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    "A coalition of public interest organizations - including the Center for Media Justice, Center for Rural Strategies, Free Press, Media Access Project, Media Alliance and many more - have sent a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski asking that the Commission make increased diversity in the media and broadband communications landscape a top priority."
Rebekah Pure

Vast F.C.C. Plan Would Bring Net to More in U.S. - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "The Federal Communications Commission is proposing an ambitious 10-year plan that will reimagine the nation's media and technology priorities by establishing high-speed Internet as the country's dominant communication network. "
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