Here’s the First Commandment for the Study of Internet Law: What the Internet was is not what the Internet shall always be. A few more stories echoing the last post’s theme:
France’s Constitutional Council rejected the legislature’s attempt to thwart digital piracy by terminating Internet access for alleged illegal downloaders. Under the legislative proposal “a newly [...]
This article from cnet–Net neutrality: An American problem? presents the views of three executives from Australian ISPs who argue that net neutrality is a problem of the typical U.S. ISP unlimited-use business model, not bandwidth. (The article defines net neutrality as opposition to the practice of ISPs to tier or establish priorities for content). Their [...]
Last year Comcast slowed BitTorrent traffic on its network because, it said, BitTorrent file transfers consumed inordinate bandwidth. Advocacy groups Free Press and Public Knowledge complained about the practice to the F.C.C., presenting one of the first legal challenges to violation of the principals of net neutrality, the concept that all Internet traffic should be [...]
Congressman Ed Markey, chairman of the House subcommittee on telecommunications and the Internet, this week introduced a bill titled The Internet Freedom Preservation Act that seeks to maintain the open architecture of the Internet. Net Neutrality is a buzzword that means different things according to who wields it. My use is consistent with [...]
The U.S. Department of Justice yesterday issued a press release describing its position on “net neutrality”–it’s against it–in response to an FCC Notice of Inquiry into broadband practices. The money quote:
[P]recluding broadband providers from charging content and application providers directly for faster or more reliable service “could shift the entire burden of implementing costly [...]
Mark Cuban’s testimony before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet (see story) echoed a point about net neutrality that students made in a recent Internet law class, which is that increasing the amount of high-speed bandwidth should moot the need for legislation to mandate open Internet architecture. The premise for tiered, priority [...]
The Berkman Center’s June 2006 Filter contains an article titled Net Neutrality, Tech Mandates, and Pop Culture in which Wendy Seltzer argues that net neutrality is a necessary ingredient for the creation of “public created culture.” She cites a number of forces that threaten the creative environment including limitations on hardware, restrictive content licensing agreements, [...]
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