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Jun 18 2008

Pulling the Plug on American UseNet

UseNet seems to have always been like Fight Club to many users – you don’t talk about Fight Club. The question is, is the first rule about targeting UseNet, ‘you don’t talk about targeting UseNet’?
There’s a very interesting report on NewTeeVee about ISPs in the United States either talking about or already ending their [...]

May 1 2008

Anti-Piracy Czar to be Created in US Congress

On the heals of a critical victory for file-sharers in the United States, a new turn is unfolding that may be seen as a critical setback should it come to fruition. A new anti-piracy bill dubbed the ‘Pro-IP’ Bill would create an anti-piracy czar in the White House.
Earlier this week, the US file-sharing community [...]

Jul 27 2006

U.S. broadband subscribers jump

Number of Americans with cable modems and DSL rise 33 percent.
U.S. high-speed Internet subscriptions soared 33 percent last year to 50.2 million lines, according to the latest data released by the Federal Communications Commission Wednesday.
More consumers signed up for digital subscriber line (DSL) service from telephone companies like AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. than [...]

Jul 27 2006

United States cedes control of the internet – but what now?

In a meeting that will go down in internet history, the United States government last night conceded that it can no longer expect to maintain its position as the ultimate authority over the internet.
Having been the internet’s instigator and, since 1998, its voluntary taskmaster, the US government finally agreed to transition its control over not-for-profit [...]

Jul 20 2006

WTO to probe limits on Internet gambling

The WTO on Wednesday set up a panel to investigate whether U.S. restrictions on Internet gambling comply with international trade rules.
The Caribbean country of Antigua and Barbuda had asked for the World Trade Organization to set up the panel after consultations with the United States failed to yield a solution.
The dispute centers on whether Washington [...]

Jul 15 2006

US government told to take its hands off internet

The United States government has been told to end its oversight role of the internet during its own consultation exercise over the future of net governance.
In a stark result, over 87 percent of those that commented on the US’s continued control of the internet’s hierachy said that it was time for it to transition toward [...]

Jul 7 2006

U.S. may slap China with suit in intellectual-property dispute

In a move that would have broad implications for software, movies, music and pharmaceuticals, the U.S. said Thursday it may sue China as early as this fall for failing to protect intellectual property as required by trade agreements.
The U.S. would bring a trade case against China at the World Trade Organization for violating intellectual-property rights [...]

Jul 3 2006

US government funds social network snooping

The US government is funding research into social networking sites and how to gather and store personal data published on them, according to the New Scientist magazine.
At the same time, US lawmakers are attempting to force the social networking sites themselves to control the amount and kind of information that people, particularly children, can put [...]

Jun 15 2006

U.S. Joins Industry in Piracy War

The U.S. government has joined forces with the entertainment industry to stop the freewheeling global bazaar in pirated movies and music, pressuring foreign governments to crack down or risk incurring trade barriers.
Last year, for instance, the movie industry lobby suggested that Sweden change its laws to make it a crime to swap copyrighted movies and [...]

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