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Virgin Media Begins Unlimited Music Download Subscription
[2009-06-16] ISP Virgin Media will begin offering a monthly subscription service that gives UK broadband customers the ability both stream and download unlimited tracks from Universal Music's catalog . A lower priced tier will offer streaming and a more limited number of downloads.
Cisco Launches Cloud Platform For Service Providers
[2009-05-15] Cisco has launched its Unified Service Delivery, a solution to help service providers build a foundation for cloud services.
Cablevision To Launch Faster Internet Service
[2009-05-01] Cablevision Systems Corp has announced plans to launch a new high-speed Internet service that will offer faster broadband connections of up to 101 megabits-per-second.
ISPs Are Educating Customers On Illegal File Sharing
[2009-04-10] A few months ago, The RIAA announced that it was going to stop suing individuals and start working with the ISP's to warn and then shut off those engaged in illegal file sharing. In recent days, AT&T, COX and several other ISP providers have gone public with their TIAA backed efforts and then just as quickly clarified them.
AOL Named Top ISP
[2009-03-27] Time Warner's AOL was rated as the top Internet service provider for overall customer experience, according to a survey of consumers by Forrester Research.
Norway ISP Will Not Ban Pirate Bay
[2009-03-06] Norwegian ISP Telenor has rejected calls to block Pirate Bay and punish its users.Telenor rejected demands from the recording trade group IFPI and Norway's film producers to block access to the Swedish website and says it and found no legal basis for the demand for ISPs to control or assess the content users download.
Six ISPs Agree To Australian Internet Filter Trial
[2009-02-13] Australia's government has been mulling the idea of filtering the Internet for a long time, and starting this spring, a test will begin. Six ISPs have agreed to play along as the program attempts to block sexual content, violence, and criminal instructions.
Legal P2P Coming Soon?
[2009-01-28] The buzz last week at Midemnet was that legal P2P was just around the corner. Some believe that licensing downloads at the ISP level and thus monetizing a currently illegal practice could be the savior of the music industry.
Can Your ISP Be Trusted With Personal Privacy?
[2009-01-10] As the new Comcast Bandwidth throttling scheme goes on line today, Techdirt asks why no ISP's are coming forward to say that they are working with RIAA?
Warner Music Pushes For ISP Driven Music Licenses
[2008-12-12] Warner Music Group's Jim Griffen, who has been a vocal proponent of blanket music licensing at the ISP level, is out pitching the idea to some of America's top universities.
One Step Closer To Free Internet For All
[2008-11-07] According to Bloomberg.com the FCC has approved a proposal by Google to utilize unused television airwaves for wireless internet access.
UK Broadband Users Confused About Limits
[2008-10-23] The majority (86%) of UK broadband users still don't understand the limit on their service, according to research from the consumer group uSwitch.
Should ISPs Have To Monitor The Internet?
[2008-09-12] You have to ask where are the parents in this argument, but MP's in the UK propose that ISP's and other internet firms do a better job of policing the dark side of the internet, the problem is that there are not enough people to do this, and some of what you come across will scar the average person for a very long time.
Testing your ISP Software
[2008-08-08] Yesterday I mentioned that the EFF has just released "Switizerland", an open source software aimed at to detect the modification or injection of packets of data by ISPs.
Are Online Privacy Laws for Advertising Necessary?
[2008-07-18] The US Senate is holding a series of hearings on online advertising, behavioral targeting and privacy to determine whether they should consider legislation protecting consumers online in these areas.
Privacy Issues With ISP Based Behavioral Targeting
[2008-06-27] Last month Charter Communications, an internet service provider (ISP), announced that it will share it's customers web browsing data with NebuAd, to show ads based on customer's web browsing behavior.
How to Hide Your Surfing Habits from ISP's
[2008-06-06] Earlier this month I talked about a program called antiphorm, which was designed to simulate a user casually surfing the internet.
AntiPhormLite Kills ISP Monitoring of User Behavior
[2008-05-19] With all the anger about Phorm and how it tracks user connections to deliver advertising to those users, it is not surprising then that someone would come up with a way to negate part of the ISP monitoring that is happening.
FCC Can Now Enforce Net Neutrality
[2008-04-24] One of the more interesting statements in the Comcast/FCC hearings recently was made almost two months ago, when Comcast argued that:
Pay An ISP Surcharge To Use P2P?
[2008-03-14] There is an interesting idea being floated out of SXSW on how to deal with privacy and piracy by proposing a five dollar surcharge on users of P2P technologies at the ISP level.
British ISPs Jump Into Behavioral Targeting
[2008-02-20] According to Herald Tribune three major internet service providers in Britain (British Telecommunications, TalkTalk and Virgin Media) have jumped into the growing Behavioral Targeting and Online Advertising space.
Is the Internet Public?
[2008-01-23] In the United States, we have some pretty easy-to-remember guidelines on what constitutes "public" and "private."
Charging Subscribers Based on Usage
[2008-01-18] TWC to squeeze heavy bandwidth users...
ISP-Based Behavioral Targeting
[2007-12-21] In an article titled Watching What You See on the Web Wall Street Journal talks about ISP (Internet Service Provider) based behavioral targeting.
AOL Spreads Its Privacy Education Program
[2007-11-02] AOL announced a program that will help Internet users understand behaviorally targeted advertising, along with providing mechanisms for opting out of such targeting.
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