“Net neutrality” debate heats up in Canada
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| Last week the Canadian public media service, CBC (the Canadian Broadcasting
| Corporation) became the first major North American broadcaster to distribute
| a DRM-free download of a primetime television show via BitTorrent. The
| download was not only DRM free, it didn’t contain any commercials or license
| based copy restrictions. In fact the CBC website proclaimed “You are free to
| download, share and burn this video”. This is how I like my media served.
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http://ostatic.com/158758-blog/net-neutrality-debate-heats-up-in-canada
Beleaguered BitTorrent search engine shuts down
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| TorrentSpy has spent the past two years and hundreds of thousands of
| dollars "defending the rights of our users and ourselves" in a legal climate
| that was "hostile" to torrent files, according to the note, which is
| attributed to the TorrentSpy team.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1205693246&rid=-50
Yesterday:
BitTorrent president: Comcast agreement is a 'win'
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| "We're not going to be the ones who hire lobbyists, we'll leave that to the
| ones at Google and Microsoft," Navin said.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9905096-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Related:
Comcast Isn’t Net Neutral; Are They Liars, Too?
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| Following reports that Comcast isn’t net neutral, Consumerist blog has
| acquired several leaks from Comcast insiders, claiming that they do indeed
| use Sandvine for packet shaping, and that customer service representatives
| are being told nothing about how the network technology works,
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http://mashable.com/2007/10/26/comcast-isnt-net-neutral-are-they-liars-too/
Comcast, Microsoft team up to serve smaller firms
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| Microsoft's move to offer the online software suite appears designed to
| compete with a similar offering from rival Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote,
| Profile, Research) known as Google Apps.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUKN1361814420071114?rpc=44
BitTorrent Admin Monitored by US Government, Forced to Dump Linux
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| Sk0t, an ex-administrator of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker is to have
| his internet connection forcibly monitored by the US Government. If that
| wasn’t bad enough, the monitoring software is Windows based - which means he
| is being forced to ditch Linux - or face being barred from the internet.
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http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-admin-monitored-by-us-government-forced-to-dump-linux/
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