Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
Adam over at Emergent Chaos clarifies some Network Neutrality concepts for his readers in his post Innovation, Emerging From Chaos.
He points out that "the regulatory apparatus has fairly clearly been captured by the regulated". Basically the big telecom corporations have learned how to thrive on regulation, and this has implications ...
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Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Cory Doctorow, famed for his debunking of DRM technology, writes an excellent article on the net neutrality issue, or "internet freedom" as I like to call it. He drives home some important points:
...there are few industries that owe their existence to regulation as much as the carriers. These companies are ...
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Sunday, June 4th, 2006
In my previous post I argue that internet neutrality legislation could help ease the transition to an internet society and economy. On further thought and debate I'm not really sure that regulation would be the most constructive response to the threat of network discrimination. The internet has a long history ...
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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
In his post "Fair Use and Network Neutrality" Lessig draws a connection which did not seem to previously exist but appeals to me as I have been looking for an excuse to talk about both in the same breath. He says:
"...in a fundamental sense, fair use (FU) and network neutrality ...
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2004
Why does "information want to be free"?
I think the phrase is a good way of explaining to most people that information is really hard to treat like property. The cost of reproduction and transportation is absurdly low, thus it is trivial to distribute freely, in the sense of "free as ...
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