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EFF and Public Knowledge Reluctantly Drop Lawsuit for Information About ACTA
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| The Obama Administration's decision to support Bush-era concealment policies
| has forced the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Public Knowledge (PK)
| to drop their lawsuit about the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
| (ACTA). EFF and PK had been seeking important documents about the secret
| intellectual property enforcement treaty that has broad implications for
| global privacy and innovation.
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| Federal judges have very little discretion to overrule Executive Branch
| decisions to classify information on "national security" grounds, and the
| Obama Administration has recently informed the court that it intends to
| defend the classification claims originally made by the Bush Administration.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-06-17-025-35-PR-LL
BT Heavily Throttling BBC, All Video
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| Significant error in this story: BT's terms of service explicitly say that
| streaming video will be throttled to 896K on Option 1 (about 1,000 words in)
| I was therefore wrong to say this was a change that would allow breaking
| contracts. I relied on another reporters' comments rather than reading the
| actual BT posting. Thanks to Simon Dux of BT for the facts that showed my
| error.
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http://fastnetnews.com/dslprime/42-d/1758-bt-heavily-throttling-bbc-all-video
Yesterday:
BT Throttling Online Video For Competitive, Not Congestion, Reasons
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| Case in point? BT. The British telco is starting to heavily throttle all
| video -- especially the BBC's online video player. This is the same BT, by
| the way, that just two years ago was saying there was no need to traffic
| shape or break net neutrality, and that it could handle all traffic issues
| with basic upgrades. So what happened? Well, it appears BT didn't like the
| competition from online video providers, so it decided to pretend it needed
| to do this for congestion purposes.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090612/1805215218.shtml
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