Ofcom's radio carve-up could cut out mesh
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| Ofcom has published the first of its consultation documents looking at how
| Spectrum Usage Rights (SURs) are going to work in the real world, and the
| future looks bad for mesh networks with their lack of centralised control.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/09/sur_proposal/
Last week:
AT&T and Other I.S.P.'s May Be Getting Ready to Filter
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| For the last 15 years, Internet service providers have acted - to use
| an old cliche - as wide-open information super-highways, letting data
| flow uninterrupted and unimpeded between users and the Internet.
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| But I.S.P.'s may be about to embrace a new metaphor: traffic cop.
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| At a small panel discussion about digital piracy at NBC's booth on the
| Consumer Electronics Show floor, representatives from NBC, Microsoft,
| several digital filtering companies and the telecom giant AT&T said
| discussed whether the time was right to start filtering for
| copyrighted content at the network level.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/att-and-other-isps-may-be-getting-ready-to-filter/index.html
Related:
AT&T admits it censored other bands
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| It looks like Pearl Jam isn't the only band that has had its politically
| charged comments bleeped from concerts streamed from AT&T's Blue Room Web
| site.
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| [...]
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| AT&T quickly apologized for the incident and blamed the company that handles
| the Webcasting for performances on Blue Room.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9759184-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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