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IPKat—IP news and fun for everyone (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
What have the BMI and ISPs agreed? Yesterday the IPKat (in slightly sleepy state) was greeted with the news that British Music Rights (BMI) and the 6 leading UK ISPs (Tiscali, Virgin Media, BT, Orange, Carphone Warehouse and Sky) had reached an agreement on tackling illegal downloaders of copyright content. The IPKat thought it was a little odd that no one really seemed to be saying much on what the...
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InformationWeek - All Stories (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Vint Cerf slams the telecoms, which aren't happy that bits have been commoditized and would like to shape industry regulations to help them to get back in the services game.
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ispeeved (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
The Chicago Tribune reports the ACLU and several minority rights groups called Thursday for Gov. Rod Blagojevich to end the state police practice of stopping motorists and asking them to agree to be searched. "senor` blago es nuestro amigo....hahahhaha"
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Privacy (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
A House subcommittee chairman on Thursday expressed concern that a Kansas-based broadband provider, Embarq, gathered data on its customers Web activity by employing an "opt-out" system rather than "opt-in." "While I am pleased that Embarq chose to answer our specific questions … I am still troubled by the company's failure to directly inform their consumers of the consumer data gathering test and...
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Threat Level (Free subscription) | yesterday
Internet service provider Embarq eavesdropped on the web surfing habits of 26,000 customers in Kansas without notifying them personally, as part of its test of new, controversial advertising technology that profiles users, according to a letter sent to federal lawmakers Wednesday. Embarq, an offshoot from...
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vipeers (Free subscription) | yesterday
Since it was created nine years ago, Free, a French ISP has always acted on its own. Whether you like it or not, Free has always managed to distance itself from its competitors by taking actions or decisions that make...
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Security Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
A number of people have contacted me looking for insight into what risks the recent DNS vulnerability announced by Dan Kaminsky pose to Irish Internet users. In particular what ISPs have patched their systems and which ones have not. As pointed out to me by one person this would be where an Irish CERT would [...]
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Global Intellect (Free subscription) | yesterday
Britain takes a blunt-force approach to battling illegal file sharing: Any internet account that is used to share copyrighted material without permission is now subject to surveillance and potential throttling, regardless of whether the person sharing the files is the account holder. Original post by Eliot Van Buskirk
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Mac World UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
File-sharers must expect stiff penalties as ISPs, music industry reach new deal Six of the UK's biggest internet service providers have reached a deal with music industry body the BPI to combat music-piracy.
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The Register (Free subscription) | yesterday
Three Strikes RIP? The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between ISPs and the music business will lead to radically new "legal P2P" services, British Music Rights' Feargal Sharkey told us this morning. Licensing deals have already been signed, we reported recently .…
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ispeeved (Free subscription) | yesterday
new blog started on the ISP. "Not as censored as ISPeeved and not as uncensored as ISPissed". Best of luck to you my friend. Link of the heading for the site.
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Security Fix (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The Web became a substantially more dangerous place this week, thanks largely to the publication of instructions that show cyber criminals how to exploit a pervasive, critical flaw in the Internet infrastructure. While Internet service providers and corporations can mitigate the danger by updating the software that powers vulnerable components of their networks, data released yesterday indicates that...
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Anton Chuvakin Personal Blog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Now, a lot of people who work for small businesses called me an idiot for this . And you know what? Maybe they are right :-) When I was a sole sysadmin for a small ISP, I didn't share my passwords with management either. They never asked ... but that is not the point. I would not have passed "a bus test", which is "will a business still run if a sysadmin is hit by a bus" [or, "goes rogue", by whatever...
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The Local (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Some of Sweden's largest internet service providers have made it clear that they would not support an agreement to combat file sharing similar to one recently reached in the UK.
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nitesh | 11/01/2007
This annual report offers a wealth of information on the worldwide development of the Internet economy. Volume 2 of this report provides an insight and analysis into the trends and developments taking place in the revived Internet economy. It includes information and statistics on the Internet industry, beginning with an historical look at Internet growth. Information and statistics on Internet hosts,...
