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 [digiblade] Net Neutrality is Bad for You: Underlying the idea of “neutrality” is the idea that Internet Protocol embeds no assumptions or values, and the mesh of interconnect agreements we call the Internet is likewise “neutral”.

 [A Foot In The Crease] Is Rogers Hurting our Show Downloads?: Today Boing Boing is reporting that Rogers and Shaw Cable ISP services are causing widespread problems with podcast downloading through iTunes, downloads from the iTunes Music Store in general, BitTorrent and other P2P activity. This is clearly the problem we have experienced personally and have had reported to us by other listeners.

[Werblog] Smoking Gun on Network Neutrality: A number of us have been arguing for a while that network owners such as cable and telephone companies should not be allowed to destroy the open business and innovation ecosystem of the Internet. Specifically, we've called for "Net Neutrality" -- the idea that customers should be able to use any device, visit any site, access any service, and view any content they choose on the network.

 [Julien McArdle] More on MPAA vs. Bittorrent: He then asked why I broke his pencil, and I told him that the pliers did it, and he should be accusing them. He said that he still didn’t understand, so I produced a pair of scissors and asked for a $100 note.

[The Peer-to-Peer Weblog] P2P fuels bandwidth demand, MPAA tactics... : P2P fuels bandwidth demand, MPAA tactics backfiring Posted Apr 14, 2005, 4:31 PM ET by Jordan Running Wired News has a great piece with some fascinating data about global bandwidth trends. The title is ”P2P Fuels Global Bandwidth Binge” and won’t surprise anybody, but it gets more interesting.

[Dewayne-Net Radio Weblog] P2P Fuels Global Bandwidth Binge: While P2P activity accounts for the lion's share of rising bandwidth consumption, internet traffic analysts said the growing popularity of voice over internet protocol, or VOIP, is a factor, too. However, Patel said VOIP calls typically require a data-transmission rate of less than 30 Kbps, compared to more than 300 Kbps for a video file.

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[The Roth Report] Blog Explosion Traffic Jam: Heeding advice from DCGI.net, I signed up for Blog Explosion. Tonight, as I'm listening to Drudge, here are some various posts that seemed interesting....

 [Michaelgeist.ca] Michael Geist - CRIA's Own Study Counters P2P Claims: Among those who download music from P2P services, the top source of music was ripping .In summary, CRIA's own research now concludes that P2P downloading .

[Thelongtail.com] The Long Tail: The effect of P2P file-sharing depends on popularity: Max Kalehoff considers the impact of Google's book scanning project on publishers, and predicts a tectonic power shift (free reg req'd): "A great analogy to describe the potential impact of the long tail in book search is to consider the rapid rise of consumer-created content online--including blogs, message boards, ratings sites and other forms of social media. These platforms are becoming incredibly influential, not just because of their sheer popularity, and compelling content, but because they represent a massively growing share of online content relative to all other--such as corporate, commercial, editorial and government content.

 [Gigaom.com] GigaOM : » The Torrent Dilemma: Vor allem BitTorrent bietet sich für die P2P Auslieferung von Filmdownloads an, weil es die Last geschickt verteilt und damit bei vielen Anfragen schneller und nicht langsamer wird. Nachdem der Gründer Bram Cohen $ 8,5 Millionen an venture Kapital für seine Firma BitTorrent gesammelt hatte, schaffte er letztes Jahr auch noch den Schulterschluss mit den Hollywoodstudios (der MPAA): er entfernt alle Links zu illegalen Filmdownloads von seiner Seite.

[Weblog.warpspeed.com] Dewayne-Net Radio Weblog: While P2P activity accounts for the lion's share of rising bandwidth consumption, internet traffic analysts said the growing popularity of voice over internet protocol, or VOIP, is a factor, too. However, Patel said VOIP calls typically require a data-transmission rate of less than 30 Kbps, compared to more than 300 Kbps for a video file.

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