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Wednesday, April 26, 2006
9:07:00 AM EDT
Hearing Bring Me to Life -- Evanescence
For those of you with geek-like tendencies, and a concern about what your Internet is, here are two stories from CNet which should be of note to you:
New group aims to 'save the Internet': This is a story about a wide range of groups, from all over the political spectrum, who want to keep large communication providers like AT&T from scrapping the idea of "net neutrality," in which all Internet data is treated the same, and replacing it with a tiered system in which some companies would pay more to have their data provided to users at higher speeds. In other words, whether you get an internet video feed at high speed may depend on whether the company serving the feed paid off the company who owns the pipes the data travels on. That's what the Save The Net folks fear, in any event. This is important stuff, as it will decide how the Net works for you in the not-too-distant future.
Also of note: Congress readies broad new digital copyright bill. This new bill would expand some of the laws and penalties of the already-controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and a consequence of that is that it might make it more difficult for people to (legally) tell you about or fix malicious programs, or software that might inadvertantly damage your computer, like the infamous Sony rootkit that installed on computers when consumers played Sony music CDs on their computers. As one commentor in the piece noted: "If Sony had decided to stand on its rights and either McAfee or Norton Antivirus had tried to remove the rootkit from my hard drive, we'd all be violating this expanded definition."
Again, stuff you might want to know about, and -- possibly -- talk to your Congressional representatives about as well.
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Hearing Bring Me to Life -- Evanescence
Fun With Digital and Other Rights
For those of you with geek-like tendencies, and a concern about what your Internet is, here are two stories from CNet which should be of note to you:
New group aims to 'save the Internet': This is a story about a wide range of groups, from all over the political spectrum, who want to keep large communication providers like AT&T from scrapping the idea of "net neutrality," in which all Internet data is treated the same, and replacing it with a tiered system in which some companies would pay more to have their data provided to users at higher speeds. In other words, whether you get an internet video feed at high speed may depend on whether the company serving the feed paid off the company who owns the pipes the data travels on. That's what the Save The Net folks fear, in any event. This is important stuff, as it will decide how the Net works for you in the not-too-distant future.
Also of note: Congress readies broad new digital copyright bill. This new bill would expand some of the laws and penalties of the already-controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and a consequence of that is that it might make it more difficult for people to (legally) tell you about or fix malicious programs, or software that might inadvertantly damage your computer, like the infamous Sony rootkit that installed on computers when consumers played Sony music CDs on their computers. As one commentor in the piece noted: "If Sony had decided to stand on its rights and either McAfee or Norton Antivirus had tried to remove the rootkit from my hard drive, we'd all be violating this expanded definition."
Again, stuff you might want to know about, and -- possibly -- talk to your Congressional representatives about as well.
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4/26/06 9:51 AM