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"Sender-pays" rule doesn’t necessarily increase telecom investment
Robert Hruzek We recently made the case against a proposal to institute a "sender-pays" rule for Internet interconnection. The idea was submitted by European telecom incumbents and it's under discussion at this week's International...Facebook tries cloaking probe into data leak involving 1 million accounts
Facebook officials told a blogger to keep their discussions with him private as they investigate claims he acquired names and e-mail addresses belonging almost one million account holders for $5 through a publicly available...Copyright Scofflaws Beware: ISPs to Begin Monitoring Illicit File Sharing
Photo: Matt Licht, NotionsCapital.com/Flickr The nation’s major internet service providers by year’s end will institute a so-called six-strikes plan, the “Copyright Alert System” initiative backed by the Obama administration and pushed by Hollywood and...ACLU forces government to reveal skyrocketing surveillance stats
Joe Howell Statistics obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union provides additional evidence that government surveillance of Americans has skyrocketed in recent years. The government is legally obligated to release reports about its...Actress in Anti-Islam Film Sues YouTube on Copyright Grounds
A California actress who appeared in the infamous “Innocence of Muslims” flick on YouTube is again asking a federal court to remove the anti-Islam footage that has spawned deadly protests and sparked a...Exclusive Usenet Offers: $7.95/month
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