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OEIL: universal service telecom package part completed
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| The telecom package pushed the European
| legislation process to its limits. Hopefully
| Kroes wonât make the same mistake as Reding
| and make proposals that can be easier
| processed and reviewed. Some stakeholders are
| still clouded by the fog of war. But we also
| have a very nice technical overview of the
| process.
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http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/oeil-universal-service-telecom-package-part-completed/
Entertainment Industry Explains How True Net Neutrality Is Just Another Word For Theft
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| With comments due last week on the FCC's
| proposed new net neutrality rules, we've
| already covered some of the filings, while
| noting the problems of carving out a
| special exemption for copyright. But, of
| course, that special exemption for
| copyright means everything to an
| entertainment industry that has no interest
| in adapting its business models. Both the
| RIAA and MPAA filed their own comments,
| which were pretty similar, and equally
| misleading. The RIAA's filing (pdf)
| repeatedly referred to copyright
| infringement as "theft" (you would think
| lawyers would know the difference) and
| insisted not just that there should be a
| copyright exemption, but that the FCC
| itself should require ISPs to act as
| copyright cops. The MPAA's filing (pdf) is
| almost a carbon copy of the RIAA's. There
| is very little difference between the two.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100118/0408327795.shtml
Recent:
Parties Lobby FCC on Net Neutrality
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| RIAA / MPAA
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| The Recording Industry Association of
| America and the Motion Picture Association
| of America have an established love-hate
| relationship with the Internet. Perhaps
| more hate-hate. The recording and motion
| picture industries are still struggling to
| find their footing and adapt to a world
| where MP3's replaced CD's, and where
| streaming movies are replacing DVD's.
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| Dating back to the early days of Napster,
| the RIAA and MPAA have lobbied for
| legislation and leveraged the court system
| to combat online piracy. In its filing on
| net neutrality with the FCC, the RIAA wrote
| "we encourage the FCC to stay its course
| and explicitly support, encourage, and
| endorse ISP efforts to fight piracy."
|
| EFF
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| On the opposite end of the spectrum, the
| EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is
| urging individuals to join its petition to
| convince the FCC to remove language from
| the proposed net neutrality guidelines
| which provide a legal loophole for the
| entertainment industry to "hijack the
| Internet."
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/blogs/bizfeed/187003/parties_lobby_fcc_on_net_neutrality.html?tk=rss_news4
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