France set to experience a revolution in public broadcast television
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| French president Nicolas Sarkozy wants to ban advertising on public
| television and replace the income stream with a tax on mobile phones and
| Internet accounts. "Our national television must provide quality and access
| to culture; it must not be shaped solely by commercial considerations," said
| Sarkozy in Paris on Tuesday.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/101533/from/rss09
There is a lot of evidence to show that Sarkozy is a Microsoft vassal.
A license fee for an unrestricted access to music
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| The Digital Milenium Copyright Act (DMCA) was adapted in most of the
| countries under the pressure of the majors and the distributors of music.
| Even if everybody could easily have an access to the Culture in all its
| variety, laws and technical restrictions make it impossible. Recently, the
| Songwriters Association of Canada (SAC) proposed a licence fee for an
| unrestricted access to music. At the same time, a mission for the French
| government was detailing the best approach to prevent and dissuade Internet
| users from illegally downloading music. Isn't the SAC's proposal applicable
| to France/your country?
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http://blue-gnu.biz/content/license_fee_unrestricted_access_music
Related:
Mark Cuban to ISPs: block all P2P traffic; Ars to Cuban: um, no
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| Of course, there are many legitimate uses for P2P that Google Video can't
| replace, like distributing Linux ISOs. Furthermore, the notion that the only
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| people who benefit from P2P technology are the distributors is wrong. If I
| have the option of grabbing a download from a distant single server or from a
| torrent with hundreds of users, I'm going to opt for the torrent. Why? It's
| almost guaranteed to be faster, and let's face it: most BitTorrent software
| is quite adept at managing large downloads. Perhaps I want to throttle it
| while playing a game; perhaps I want to encrypt my transfers. If I'm
| distributing video or audio, perhaps I don't wish to be bound by the terms of
| Google Video.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071122-mark-cuban-to-isps-block-all-p2p-traffic.html
Comcast reported to FCC
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| P2P throttling breaks FCC 'net neutrality' policy
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| Among the consumer groups who have approached the FCC are the Consumer
| Federation of America, the Consumers Union, the Media Access Project and
| professors at the Internet practices of the Yale, Harvard and Stanford law
| schools.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/02/comcast-reported-fcc
Consumer groups want Comcast fined for thwarting the Bible
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| A number of consumer groups are petitioning the FCC to fine Comcast $195,000
| for every customer affected by their BitTorrent-throttling practices. The FCC
| has said in the past that service providers can't "block" customers from
| using certain applications or websites, but it hasn't enforced that policy.
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http://valleywag.com/tech/politics/consumer-groups-want-comcast-fined-for-thwarting-the-bible-317960.php
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