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Warner Music Pushes For ISP Driven Music Licenses 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. Date: 2008-12-12 Will Net Neutrality Happen In 2009? Once the election smoke has cleared, Congress appears poised to pass Network Neutrality legislation. Date: 2008-11-21 One Step Closer To Free Internet For All According to Bloomberg.com the FCC has approved a proposal by Google to utilize unused television airwaves for wireless internet access. Date: 2008-11-07 UK Broadband Users Confused About Limits The majority (86%) of UK broadband users still don't understand the limit on their service, according to research from the consumer group uSwitch. Date: 2008-10-23 Should ISPs Have To Monitor The Internet? 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... Date: 2008-09-12 Comcast Going To Restrict Customer's Internet Usage Comcast has announced it will restrict customer's Internet usage starting October 1, in order to provide what it calls the best service to its subscribers. Date: 2008-08-29 Testing Your ISP Software 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. Date: 2008-08-08 Are Online Privacy Laws For Advertising Necessary? 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. Date: 2008-07-18 Privacy Issues With ISP Based Behavioral Targeting 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. Date: 2008-06-27 How To Hide Your Surfing Habits From ISP's Earlier this month I talked about a program called antiphorm, which was designed to simulate a user casually surfing the internet. This video goes into how the program works, and some customization routines that will pollute the data stream that the ISP's will in turn sell to marketing folks. Date: 2008-06-06 AntiPhormLite Kills ISP Monitoring Of User Behavior 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. Date: 2008-05-19 FCC Can Now Enforce Net Neutrality One of the more interesting statements in the Comcast/FCC hearings recently was made almost two months ago, when Comcast argued that: The FCC "Internet policy... Date: 2008-04-24 Pay An ISP Surcharge To Use P2P? 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. Date: 2008-03-14 British ISPs Jump Into Behavioral Targeting 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. Date: 2008-02-20 Charging Subscribers Based On Usage TWC to squeeze heavy bandwidth users... As one major broadband provider prepares to test a pay by usage Internet scheme, we are reminded of the old days of online access. Date: 2008-01-18 |
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