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Comcast Slapped with Three BitTorrent-Related Lawsuits
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| The suits each allege that Comcast misled customers in regards to advertised
| claims of "unfettered" Internet access. Lawyers argue in actuality,
| Comcast "intentionally blocks or otherwise impedes its customers' access to
| peer-to-peer file sharing and other Internet applications." By impersonating
| the computers of users attempting to share files, Comcast sent "reset
| packets" that instruct the transmitting computers to stop sending data.
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http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007333.html
They stifle a lot of the stuff that legitimately threatens the monopolies, some
of which Comcast is partnering with.
Open Source P2P Streaming: Set to Disrupt CDN Biz Models
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| P2P Next’s SwarmPlayer is loosely based on research that a team of P2P
| developers at the Delft University of Technology has been doing in the last
| couple of years.
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http://ostatic.com/169541-blog/open-source-p2p-streaming-set-to-disrupt-cdn-biz-models
Open Source P2P Streaming Getting Ready to Disrupt CDN Business Models
http://newteevee.com/2008/07/24/open-source-p2p-streaming-getting-ready-to-disrupt-cdn-business-models/
Court defends America's right to online smut
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| Ten years after it was rubber stamped by US lawmakers, the
| free-speech-throttling Child Online Protection Act (COPA) remains in legal
| limbo, but its chances of survival took another blow this week as a federal
| appeals court upheld an earlier ban on the statute.
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| "COPA cannot withstand a strict scrutiny, vagueness, or over breadth analysis
| and thus is unconstitutional," reads Tuesday's ruling (PDF) from the U.S.
| Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The 1998 statute threatens six months
| of jail time - and hefty fines - for any American who posts "material that is
| harmful to minors" on the net.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/24/copa_dealt_another_blow/
Days ago:
Court Strikes Down Internet Censorship Law
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| We just received word today that the Third Circuit struck down a federal
| Internet censorship law as unconstitutional. The law, called the Child Online
| Protection Act, imposed civil and criminal penalties on those who
| place “harmful to minors” material on the Web. Under this law, no adult, no
| matter how mature or responsible, would have been allowed to see material
| that is deemed unfit for a child. The law would have forced vast swaths of
| constitutionally protected speech off of the Web.
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http://blog.aclu.org/2008/07/22/court-strikes-down-internet-censorship-law/
New York threatens Comcast with anti-porn suit
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| With this ongoing campaign, Cuomo has brought himself reams of publicity. But
| in the long run, his grandstanding has likely buried more legitimate free
| speech than child pornography. The likes of AT&T and Time Warner used their
| Cuomo agreements as an excuse to vaporize large swaths of Usenet where New
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| York hasn't found "sexually lewd photos featuring prepubescent children." And
| though the AG has successfully choked access to roughly 88 newsgroups that do
| contain child porn, you can bet the pornographers will simply move elsewhere.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/22/cuomo_threatens_comcast_with_lawsuit/
US Court Strikes Down COPA, Again
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| A U.S. appeals court has for the third time struck down a law intended to
| keep Web sites with sexually oriented themes away from children, with judges
| saying the law is a vague and overly broad attack on free speech.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/148762/us_court_strikes_down_copa_again.html
Comcast bows to child porn pressure
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| Cuomo is backing a "code of conduct" that requires ISPs to block web sites
| and newsgroups thought to be fiddling about with child pornography.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/22/comcast-bows-child-porn
Recent:
Cable giants bullied into new child porn censorship deal
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| The group will provide each cable company with a list of Web site addresses
| that they believe contain child porn.
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| [...]
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| It is unclear what, if any, notification cable customers will receive before
| their Web sites are deleted, or what legal rights they will have to appeal
| the classification of their content as illegal child pornography.
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| The memo of understanding states that the private group will provide cable
| companies with a list of kiddie porn URLs, that "in NCMEC's good faith"
| appears to meet the federal definition of child pornography.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13739_3-9994159-46.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Animal Rights Activists Forced to Hand Over Encryption Keys
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| If you remember, this was sold to the public as essential for fighting
| terrorism. It's already being misused.
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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/animal_rights_a.html
The war on photographers - you're all al Qaeda suspects now
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/23/police_photographer_stops/
Bavaria sanctions police spyware
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| Bavaria has become the first German state to approve laws that allow police
| to plant spyware on the PCs of terror suspects.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/bavaria_police_spyware_plan/
Warning over phone calls database
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| A central database holding details of everyone's phone calls and emails could
| be a "step too far for the British way of life", ministers have been warned.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7507627.stm
US civil rights activists protest new wiretapping law
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| The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed suit against the US
| government to protest the new Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
| recently passed by Congress. The civil rights organisation believes that the
| far-reaching authority granted by the Act, which has now been signed by
| George W. Bush, is unconstitutional.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/110904/from/rss09
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