Check The Register for my write-up of the FCC hearing.
Testifying as an expert witness on bandwidth management at the FCC’s field hearing in snowy Cambridge this Monday was a heady experience. The hearing took place in a cramped corner of the Harvard Law School, a building that was already decorated with pickets, banners, and reporters [...]
Larry Lessig’s decision not to run for Congress against Jackie Speier proves one thing, at least: the man is not a total fool. I applaud him for not wasting the public’s time with a quixotic campaign. Speier will make a fine representative for the 12th dsitrict, stirring things up quite a bit in her own [...]
The Larry Lessig for Congress movement is gathering steam, and the Professor himself is showing all the signs of running:
Former colleague John Palfrey, of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, launched a “Draft Lessig for Congress” Facebook group, attracting more than 2,000 social networking Larry lovers, and others soon sprung for their own DraftLessig.org” [...]
Here’s your announcement on the FCC hearing in Boston this Monday.
11:00 a.m. Welcome/Opening Remarks
11:45 a.m. Technology Demonstration – Gilles BianRosa, Chief Executive Officer, Vuze, Inc.
12:00 p.m. Panel Discussion 1: Policy Perspectives
* Marvin Ammori, General Counsel, Free Press
* Yochai Benkler, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School [...]
The infamous “Ernesto” announces new countermeasures to grab even more of Comcast’s residential network:
BitTorrent throttling is not a new phenomenon, ISPs have been doing it for years. When the first ISPs started to throttle BitTorrent traffic most BitTorrent clients introduced a countermeasure, namely, protocol header encryption. This was the beginning of an ongoing cat and [...]
Here are some of the jewels among the comments submitted to the FCC on Save the Internet’s hilariously silly petition opposing sensible network management practices.
Brett Glass, the operator of a wireless ISP in Wyoming, points out that Saving the Internet would put him out of business and his customers off the net.
Rob Atkinson of the [...]
My official comments on the FCC Comcast petitions are right here
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Peter Svensson, the AP reporter last seen carrying water for the EFF, has a new piece out on the bandwidth shortage:
Internet service providers and consumer advocates agree that some form of network management, also called “traffic shaping,” can be good for everybody. Not all Internet traffic has the same level of urgency. It makes sense [...]
This news item was a pleasant surprise:
Comcast said today it is offering a new tier of service called Blast that tops out at 16 megabits per second for downloads, twice the speed of its Performance Plus, while retaining the same price. Comcast users will still be able to purchase the basic Performance service, which offers [...]
Check out the latest Tech Policy Weekly podcast, Network Management Redux:
Two networking / IT experts join us for the podcast this week to discuss the ramifications of potential government regulation of broadband network engineering issues. The experts are Matt Sherman, a San Francisco Bay Area web developer and a technology policy blogger who blogs at [...]
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