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N.Y. attorney general forces ISPs to curb Usenet accessOpen in New Window
"Time Warner Cable pulls the plug on all newsgroups after Andrew Cuomo's office finds child porn on 88 of them. Verizon Communications and Sprint plan to limit Usenet too." read more »
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Congress urged to investigate ISPs over user trackingOpen in New Window
"Charter Communications' plan to track users' web surfing and hand the data over to ad agencies is attracting increasing Congressional attention. The heads of the House Telecommunications Subcommittee..." read more »
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U2 band manager compares ISPs to 'shoplifters'Open in New Window
"Speaking during a music conference in Hong Kong, the manager of U2 did not hold back, going on a public tirade against large Internet service providers, alleging they're profiting from illegal file..." read more »
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Who should pay? BBC, UK ISPs argue over iPlayer trafficOpen in New Window
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom told Parliament this week that the BBC should not have to pay ISPs to upgrade their networks, which are allegedly groaning beneath the weight of iPlayer traffic. So who do read more »
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Vuze says some ISPs abuse TCP resets; data not that clearcutOpen in New Window
Vuze reports that as many as 20 percent of all TCP sessions on Comcast's network end in a reset, a number that is significantly higher than other ISPs. Unfortunately, Vuze's data leave some questions read more »
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AT&T and Other I.S.P.s May Be Getting Ready to Filter.Open in New Window
Brad Stone over at The New York Times reports on AT&T and other Internet Service Provider's inclination to begin filtering web traffic to exclude copyright infringing materials. This flies in the fa read more »
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IFPI: ISPs Should Block BitTorrent and The Pirate Bay.Open in New Window
"The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is trying to convince European lawmakers that ISPs should take extreme measures to fight piracy. They suggest that ISPs should block read more »
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Mark Cuban to ISPs: block all P2P traffic; Ars Technica to Cuban: um, no.Open in New Window
Mark Cuban, a internet billionaire, has written an open letter to Internet Service Providers calling upon them to block all P2P traffic on the assumption that it is congesting the physical networks t read more »
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