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  • Why are people against the FCC’s National Broadband Plan?

    Why are people against the FCC’s National Broadband Plan?

    Posted on March 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Up until a moment ago, this was going to be a standard "newsy" post: the FCC will announce its National Broadband Plan on Tuesday, here's what it's all about. Then I read the comments of a PC World article discussing that very same plan—many people are outraged that the government would muscle its way into the free market! If Americans wanted fast broadband then the market would provide it on its own terms. That, of course, is complete nonsense: plenty of Americans live in one-ISP towns, and if said ISP provides terrible service, well, though cookies, chico. This is America! Love it or leave it~!

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  • Top BitTorrent sites are not afraid of BitStalker

    Top BitTorrent sites are not afraid of BitStalker

    Posted on March 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox are busy funding some new, super-duper anti-BitTorrent technology called BitStalker. The difference between it and other anti-BitTorrent systems is that it's said to be accurate. That's a huge development, actually.

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  • What would you even do with a 100 mbps Internet connection?

    What would you even do with a 100 mbps Internet connection?

    Posted on March 8, 2010 | No Comments
    About a year ago I signed up for Cablevision's Optimum Online Ultra, and aside from a little snafu that I'm trying to fix right now (don't ask!), it's been great. How could you go wrong with a reliable 100 mbps down/15 mbps up connection? Only $100/month, too. Other ISPs are getting close to offering similar speeds, thanks to Docsis 3.0, but some people are wondering: will people even need that sort of speed, and if so, then for what?

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  • Panic: UK file-sharers may well be disconnected from ISPs starting in 2011

    Panic: UK file-sharers may well be disconnected from ISPs starting in 2011

    Posted on October 28, 2009 | No Comments
    The ban hammer is about to smash UK file-sharers. Legislation there is set to take effect in April that would, as a last resort, kick illegal file-sharers off the Internet. Very exciting~!

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  • Who’s ‘right’ in the Net Neutrality debate?

    Who’s ‘right’ in the Net Neutrality debate?

    Posted on September 26, 2009 | No Comments
    This past week saw the resurrection of Net Neutrality as a divisive issue. Some folks (people like Google, and, well, us) are in favor of Net Neutrality, while other folks (primarily the ISPs) are against it. Not long after the FCC announced its intentions, six Republican senators, three of which who received quite a lot of money from AT&T, proposed an amendment to a bill to stop the FCC in its tracks. The senators later rescinded their amendment, saying that they were now open to a “dialogue” with the FCC.

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  • Comcast responds to FCC’s Net Neutrality proposals: Slow down, partner, let’s talk about this

    Comcast responds to FCC’s Net Neutrality proposals: Slow down, partner, let’s talk about this

    Posted on September 21, 2009 | No Comments
    My God in Heaven! It's been about four hours since the FCC announced its intention to add two more pillars to its idea of Net Neutrality: one, ISPs should not be allowed to wily nilly permit/disallow traffic on their networks (non-discrimination); and two, traffic management should be done is as transparent a manner as possible, so you don't wind up with people discovering that their software is being tampered with, without their knowledge or consent, after the fact. I don't know about yous guys (not a typo), but that seems pretty reasonable to me. And if you disagree, then you're probably a high-ranking executive at Comcast.

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  • Yup, the FCC supports Net Neutrality all right

    Yup, the FCC supports Net Neutrality all right

    Posted on September 21, 2009 | No Comments
    As expected, the chairman of the FCC, Julius Genachowski, announced today his agency's support for Net Neutrality. Odds are if you're reading us then you have a basic idea of what Net Neutrality is, but if not it can be summed up like this: ISPs will be expected to treat all data equally, and not favor 0s and 1s from Company A or Company B, no matter what sweetheart a deal may be in place. The idea is that, since all data is treated equally, consumers will have better, unfettered access to the sites and services they choose to support.

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  • Don’t condemn AT&T too quickly for blocking 4chan (now with AT&T’s official explanation!)

    Don’t condemn AT&T too quickly for blocking 4chan (now with AT&T’s official explanation!)

    Posted on July 27, 2009 | No Comments
    To quote Grandpa Simpson, “Oh, bitch, bitch, bitch.” Today I woke up to reports that AT&T was being Evil, blocking access to certain sections of 4chan, which you'll see described as anything from a “Wild West” to a “hornet's nest.” (That blocking has since stopped, by the way.) I like to describe it as the last honest place on the Internet. People are creative like that. Anyhow, before you e-riot or whatever, consider this posting by an admin at unWired, another ISP that was blocking access to 4chan.

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  • The Pirate Bay, well on its way to irrelevance at record speed

    The Pirate Bay, well on its way to irrelevance at record speed

    Posted on July 2, 2009 | No Comments
    Man alive is The Pirate Bay finished! Business Week has an interview with Hans Pandeya, the CEO of Global Gaming Factory, the company that's set to buy The Pirate Bay for nearly $8 million (provided it can come up with the money). What's mainly discussed it what type of business plan does this man have in store for The Pirate Bay. It's safe to say that The Pirate Bay will be all but dead in one year's time.

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