Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
The new episode of Surprisingly Free Conversations is up and it features Michael S. Sawyer, a fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, discussing the impact of the DMCA on user-generated content. The discussion also turns to the principle of fair use and competing solutions for dealing with copyright infringements on user-generated content [...]
The cloud won’t grow quite the way Berin notes, at least not if I can help it. As the ongoing T-Mobile Sidekick failure shows, if you release your data to “the cloud,” you give up control. In this case, giving up control means giving up your data. (Speculation about what happened is here.) When you [...]
Ok, I didn’t say anything last month when Jerry—albeit with some caveats—cited that FCC stat about how 88 percent of zip codes have four or more broadband providers. But now I see my friend Peter Suderman relying on the same figure over at Reason. And friends don’t let friends use FCC broadband data. First, since [...]
Rose Afriyie from Feministing wants to know why, amid all the enthusiastic talk of “Gov 2.0″ under Obama, we’re not hearing about the “digital divide,” about which there used to be so much tearing of hair and rending of garments: I, for one, am a little concerned that in all this technology talk, particularly with [...]
This Microsoft-funded study projects that, by 2013, cloud computing will have added $800 billion in net new business revenues for the 52 countries surveyed (over 2009 levels). The growing economic importance of the cloud is likely to increase pressure for government involvement. As President Reagan said: “Government’s view of the economy could be summed up [...]
On October 1 I attended a panel discussion on the use of technology to restrict the illegal transfer of copyright-protected content online. The panel talked about a new French law requiring ISPs to block users who had “three strikes” against them for illegal transfers, recent developments in watermarking and fingerprinting, and the future of fair [...]
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski suggested at an FCC field hearing this week that the federal government might create its own “version of iTunes.” Multichannel News reports: The chairman asked panelists to think about the value of a clearinghouse where best practices could be shared. He suggested that might be a way to spur the spin-off [...]
The smell of high-tech regulation is increasingly in the air these days and many lawmakers and some activist groups now have the mobile marketplace in their regulatory cross-hairs. Critics make a variety of claims about the wireless market supposedly lacking competition, choice, innovation, or reasonable pricing. Consequently, they want to wrap America’s wireless sector in [...]
I really enjoyed my Second Life appearance on “Government’s Place in Virtual Worlds and Online Communities,” which was hosted by Metanomics. You can watch the entire segment on the Metanomics site. But the folks at Metanomics have also posted 6 clips from the show at YouTube that highlight some of the topics we discussed. Here’s [...]
I debated PK’s Art Brodsky last week about net neutrality on the international news channel, RussiaToday. Here are a few of my key points of disagreement with Art: The glittering generality of “Neutrality,” once enshrined in law for one layer of the Internet will be extended, sooner or later, to other layers. As Adam and I [...]
January 29, 2012
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