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EFF Offers New Tool To Test ISP Interference
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| On the heels of today's relatively toothless "sanction" against Comcast, the
| Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a new tool to help consumers
| check for ISP skulduggery. Dubbed "Switzerland," the open source tool is part
| of the EFF's Test Your ISP Project, and is being developed to give consumers
| a simple way to determine whether their ISP is quietly tinkering with
| application traffic.
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http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/EFF-Offers-New-Tool-To-Test-ISP-Interference-96641?nocomment=1
Related:
New Site: The Toll Reads?
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| Net Neutrality refers to free access to the Internet without discrimination
| based upon how often a user accesses the Internet or how much broadband
| capacity they utilize. Advocates for Net Neutrality believe that users are
| entitled to unlimited access in order to preserve current freedoms as well as
| to prevent broadband providers from abusing their power to block applications
| they do not favor or to discriminate between content providers. Critics of
| Net Neutrality and associated legislative proposals believe that Net
| Neutrality rules would reduce incentives to upgrade networks and launch next
| generation network services and, in turn, inhibit the most efficient access
| to the broadband network.
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http://www.netneutrality2008.org/About.html
Comcast Slapped with Three BitTorrent-Related Lawsuits
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| The suits each allege that Comcast misled customers in regards to advertised
| claims of "unfettered" Internet access. Lawyers argue in actuality,
| Comcast "intentionally blocks or otherwise impedes its customers' access to
| peer-to-peer file sharing and other Internet applications." By impersonating
| the computers of users attempting to share files, Comcast sent "reset
| packets" that instruct the transmitting computers to stop sending data.
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http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007333.html
Open Source P2P Streaming: Set to Disrupt CDN Biz Models
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| P2P Next’s SwarmPlayer is loosely based on research that a team of P2P
| developers at the Delft University of Technology has been doing in the last
| couple of years.
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http://ostatic.com/169541-blog/open-source-p2p-streaming-set-to-disrupt-cdn-biz-models
Open Source P2P Streaming Getting Ready to Disrupt CDN Business Models
http://newteevee.com/2008/07/24/open-source-p2p-streaming-getting-ready-to-disrupt-cdn-business-models/
Court Strikes Down Internet Censorship Law
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| We just received word today that the Third Circuit struck down a federal
| Internet censorship law as unconstitutional. The law, called the Child Online
| Protection Act, imposed civil and criminal penalties on those who
| place “harmful to minors” material on the Web. Under this law, no adult, no
| matter how mature or responsible, would have been allowed to see material
| that is deemed unfit for a child. The law would have forced vast swaths of
| constitutionally protected speech off of the Web.
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http://blog.aclu.org/2008/07/22/court-strikes-down-internet-censorship-law/
US Court Strikes Down COPA, Again
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| A U.S. appeals court has for the third time struck down a law intended to
| keep Web sites with sexually oriented themes away from children, with judges
| saying the law is a vague and overly broad attack on free speech.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/148762/us_court_strikes_down_copa_again.html
The war on photographers - you're all al Qaeda suspects now
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/23/police_photographer_stops/
Bavaria sanctions police spyware
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| Bavaria has become the first German state to approve laws that allow police
| to plant spyware on the PCs of terror suspects.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/bavaria_police_spyware_plan/
Warning over phone calls database
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| A central database holding details of everyone's phone calls and emails could
| be a "step too far for the British way of life", ministers have been warned.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7507627.stm
US civil rights activists protest new wiretapping law
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| The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed suit against the US
| government to protest the new Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
| recently passed by Congress. The civil rights organisation believes that the
| far-reaching authority granted by the Act, which has now been signed by
| George W. Bush, is unconstitutional.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/110904/from/rss09
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