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Court overturns FCC ruling banning Comcast from restricting Bit Torrent

Article discussing the FCC's effort to help the trouble media business by relaxing the cross-ownership restrictions.

Google has been awarded a patent that describes a software method for selectively restricting the availability of content on the basis of access privileges and geographical location. On the surface, it may look like this patent covers techniques for censoring politically sensitive content in specific countries-a practice that Google has recently spoken out against in its ongoing feud with China. A closer look at the patent's claims, however, shows that it has little to do with censorship and may actually relate to the company's controversial book scanning initiative.

The Communication Commission of Kenya and Media Owners Association are currently fighting over the enforcement of new clausees restricting media cross ownership in Kenya

China rejects Hillary Clinton's call for lifting restrictions on the Internet, calling her remarks "information imperialism." Rory O'Conner provides some facts and his take.

NBC owns the U.S. rights to the Vancouver Olympics, and, for this Olympics, it has clamped down on online live streaming of events. Only hockey and curling will be shown live online, with all other events either shown live on television or held for tape-delay airing on prime time or late night television, says the industry publication Broadcasting & Cable in a story Monday. The Web site for CTV, the Canadian network with rights to the Olympics in that country, is live-streaming events, but NBC has made sure that computers with U.S. IP addresses can't log onto the CTV site.

Net-Neutrality sets precedent for online video traffic.