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Anti-data caps rep resigns from Congress today
Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) resigns from Congress this evening at 5pm, which is good news to ISPs that serve more than two million customers apiece. In the wake of last year’s monthly data cap trials by Time Warner Cable, Massa announced publicly that he would introduce a bill that would limit such caps , and he did so in June 2009.
Continue reading »Top Tier BitTorrent Sites Suffer Pain in 2009
Following the messy death of Napster in 2001, the continued rise of file-sharing services took many by surprise. It took very little time for users to adapt to other sharing techniques and before long, services such as Kazaa, eD2K and BitTorrent were the hottest property on the net, gathering a momentum that would prove difficult, if not impossible to stop. Dozens of notable BitTorrent sites have emerged since things really began to take off in 2002/2003, and literally thousands of lesser known private communities have flourished.
Continue reading »Virgin to use DPI file share ‘monitor’ system
With entertainment cartel plans to use world governments as copyright enforcers in the background, Britain’s Virgin Media says it plans to try a DPI (deep packet inspection) system called CView. “CView is the first commercially available solution to provide a metric highlighting the volume and nature of Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing activity on an ISP network,” says its owner, Detica. But it, “does not, and cannot, identify individual Internet users,” it states, boasting it’s, “The only accurate way of providing a ‘digital piracy’ index to both ISPs and CPs is to measure the actual P2P activity taking place within an ISP network.” Raw traffic data and identification information are “deleted in the closed system and cannot be accessed by a human operator,” it promises.
Continue reading »Music Downloading Still Favored by Students over Streaming
It’s been raining with studies lately – just last month we reported about one concerned with the shared popularity between p2p networking and video streaming . We said then that contrary to what the numbers showed and what many believed, p2p was not really “in danger” and wasn’t really losing ground over streaming. So here’s a new study conducted by the University of Reading targeting university students, according to which most of them still prefer to download music (whether from iTunes, Amazon MP3 or p2p networks) rather than stream it or buy it directly from stores.
Continue reading »CALM Act plans to put loud TV commercials to sleep
Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) wants the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to act—against loud commercials. Her ” Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act ‘ has just cleared a subcommittee and now moves to the full House Energy and Commerce committee for a vote.
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