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June 23, 2008
FCC to Verizon: Phone switching data not for marketing use
When Verizon landline customers try to switch their number to a cable company instead, Verizon uses its internal notification to launch a “retention” effort. The FCC says absolutely not.
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June 23, 2008
CableCARD uptake abysmal as most wind up in set-top boxes
A technology that was once expected to kill off set-top cable boxes and make TVs and DVRs able to access digital cable directly has failed to dethrone the boxes. A year after the FCC’s “integration ban,” 94 percent of CableCARDs are used in set-top boxes.
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June 23, 2008
Sandvine: close to half of all bandwidth sucked up by P2P
A significant portion of bandwidth is eaten up by P2P traffic, according to Sandvine. A recent report shows that regular old web traffic doesn’t use nearly as much, although Sandvine does have a particular interest in showing how much the tubes are being clogged by P2P.
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June 23, 2008
Supreme Court to hear DSL antitrust case; FCC, DoJ at odds
The US Supreme Court has decided to hear an appeal of a case that may define whether antitrust law applies to the pricing exacted by phone companies for sales of DSL service to third-party ISPs. The decision is a win for the Department of Justice, but a rejection of arguments made by the FCC.
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June 23, 2008
MPAA: actual P2P distribution often "impossible" to prove
The Motion Picture Association of America tells the judge in the Jammie Thomas case that making a song available on a P2P network should count as infringement; proving that actual distribution took place is “often very difficult” and even “impossible.”
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June 23, 2008
Safety report: latest collider at CERN won’t end the world
Magnetic monopoles, strange quark matter, and miniature black holes, oh my! The final safety report on the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator set to start up this summer, says that if its collisions were capable of destroying the earth, nature would have gotten there first.
