This Week In Miscellanea: “Open Source”

1. Barack Obama has selected Julius Genachowski to lead the FCC. He isn’t
all that well known, but he did work the campaign trail (on the net), and is widely credited in headlines as a champion of net neutrality. To what extent he really is is a good question – if you only read one link [...]

Blaming The Bullet

Quote:  “The trade body for UK music, the BPI, asked internet service providers to disconnect people who ignore requests to stop sharing music.
But Charles Dunstone of Carphone Warehouse, which runs the TalkTalk broadband service, is refusing. He said it is not his job to be an internet policeman.”
It seems like the British music industry [...]

The Fight Under The Net

Do you remember watching this and feeling nervous? Well, feast your eyes on a concise summary of the same issue as it applies (even more) directly to us:

Net neutrality may turn into one of the definitive issues of our times. The sphere is alive with discussion about the concept, mostly because [...]