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Lie like an astrorug
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ doc/ 2008/ 02/ 26/ lie-like-an-astrorug/Lie like an astrorug February 26, 2008 in problems | 4 comments From Portfolio.com: Comcast spokeswoman Jennifer Khoury said that the company paid some people to arrive early and hold places in the queue for local Comcast employees who wanted to attend the hearing.
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Lie like an astrorug
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ doc/ 2008/ 02/ 26/ lie-like-an-astrorug/Lie like an astrorug February 26, 2008 in problems | 4 comments From Portfolio.com: Comcast spokeswoman Jennifer Khoury said that the company paid some people to arrive early and hold places in the queue for local Comcast employees who wanted to attend the hearing.
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[fccboston08] FCC Hearing: Panel 2: Q&A
http://www.hyperorg.com/ blogger/ 2008/ 02/ 25/ fccboston08-fcc-hearing-panel-2-…NOTE: I am live-blogging. Not re-reading for errors. There are guaranteed to be errors of substance, stand point and detail. Caveat reader. McDowell: Does BitTorrent run differently on different types of network infrastructures? BT: The engineers do take advantage of architectures.
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[fccboston08] FCC Hearing: Panel 2: Statements
http://www.hyperorg.com/ blogger/ 2008/ 02/ 25/ fccboston08-fcc-hearing-panel-2-…NOTE: I am live-blogging. Not re-reading for errors. There are guaranteed to be errors of substance, stand point and detail. Caveat reader. Daniel Weitzner of MIT says the entire Web is peer-to-peer, although not technically. People use the Net in a synchronous, P2P manner.
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[fccboston08] FCC hearing: Panel 1 part d-z
http://www.hyperorg.com/ blogger/ 2008/ 02/ 25/ fccboston08-fcc-hearing-panel-1-…NOTE: I am live-blogging. Not re-reading for errors. There are guaranteed to be errors of substance, stand point and detail. Caveat reader. Martin: Comcast didn’t just not publicize its policy of blocking BitTorrent. They actually denied it, right? Ammori: Yup. We want to know what you’re blocking.
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[fccboston08] FCC hearing: Panel 1 part c: Tim Wu
http://www.hyperorg.com/ blogger/ 2008/ 02/ 25/ fccboston08-fcc-hearing-panel-1-…Tim Wu, Columbia Law and the coiner of the phrase “Net neutrality” (and, like Yochai, a personal hero of mine) says: Whatever we conclude about Net neutrality we should decide on a simple rule: NN should not include blocking lawful applications He says the FCC should keep in mind that this discussion
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[fccboston08] FCC hearing: Panel 1 part b - Comcast and Verizon
http://www.hyperorg.com/ blogger/ 2008/ 02/ 25/ fccboston08-fcc-hearing-panel-1-…Representative Dan Bosley talks about the need for broadband in western Mass., where he lives, because lack of it hurts the local economy. He compares stifling competition on the Net to stifling competition in grocery stores. He says aspects of the violation of NN remind him of slotting fees at groceries.
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[fccboston08] FCC hearing: Panel 1 part a [Benkler rocks the house]
http://www.hyperorg.com/ blogger/ 2008/ 02/ 25/ fccboston08-fcc-hearing-panel-1-…Marvin Ammori, General Counsel, Free Press, is first up on this panel. The panel is as long as a march of penguins. This is not about tech, he says. It’s about the future of the Net. Door #1: Open, fast broadband, innovative, etc. Door #2: Providers choose your sites for you [whoops, overstatement], etc.
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[fccboston08] FCC hearing: BitTorrent demo
http://www.hyperorg.com/ blogger/ 2008/ 02/ 25/ fccboston08-fcc-hearing-bittorre…The head of Vuze, Gilles BianRosa, is showing a demo of his BitTorrent client. There have been 20M downloads of Vuze in the past 12 months. It delivers high-def TV. He says Vuze enables viewers to find producers and vice versa. He connects live to a science video with gorgeous astronomical videos, although he can’t show it in high-def beause of Harvard’s projector.
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FCC Open Hearing: Net Neutrality
http://wendy.seltzer.org/ blog/ archives/ 2008/ 02/ 25/ fcc-open-hearing-net-neu…The FCC is in Cambridge today, for a Berkman-hosted open meeting (PDF) on Network Neutrality. Congressman Ed Markey introduces the panel with recollections of his fight against mandated access charges for dial-up connections.
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