Net neutrality is something that concerns me greatly. Allowing ISPs to manipulate the data sent between our homes and offices and the rest of the Internet is disconcerting. I’ve written up a few articles, some from a reporter’s perspective and others from an advocates’ perspective, on this issues and other related regulatory issues.
Here are two of those articles, both of which are from By George, a daily journal written by Neil George:
With all the hubbub regarding Sony’s DRM CDs and rootkit, I thought I’d post a link to an article I wrote when the CDs were first released. Oddly, few people covered the initial story.
As an aside, music will be free in five to 10 years. Albums are a promotional vehicle for concert ticket sales and merchandise. Once musicians take advantage of this, they’ll start dumping most of the major labels or force a radical restructuring of the standard contracts.
Two days ago, an article of mine about the next big trends in computer networking technology was published in High Tech Bulletin. The two trends focused on are BitTorrent and grid computing.
High Tech Bulletin is a twice-monthly e-zine written by Gregg Early and often features guest writers, including in-house people like myself.
Today, Wired has an article about how BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen has struck a deal with MPAA to clean material that is illegal to distribute from BitTorrent site search results. This news is both timely and relevant to my article.