Net Neutrality

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Tool released to show when ISP's aren't supporting net neutrality and are favouring certain sites:

http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2 ... ty-cheats/

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CRTC tells Rogers to stop throttling:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/17 ... ine-Gamers

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Guilty until proven innocent and we're going to tax you to police the 'net:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=23300

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Opponents of SOPA lining up:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news ... atives.ars

It's pretty much everyone who thinks it's garbage.

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SOPA, in its current form, is dead:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=23791

I never thought of this, but I almost wish it would have passed as the potential for mayhem was enormous:

The bill was likened to a death penalty to the internet economy by DailyTech and other sites -- the bills looked to create a takedown system where any site found to be hosting user generated content pointing to infringing content (say a URL to a torrent) could be immediately taken down.

This would have been a crippling blow to Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN), Google Inc. (GOOG), online news, and any other site that allows user-generated content, as a malicious user (e.g. a prankster or competitor) could intentionally plant an offending URL and then contact the regulators to take down the site for weeks at a time. The measure would essentially have ended all American online commerce, online searching, and online news ,if enforced.

Tell a bunch of 14 year olds they could bring down all e-commerce in the USA and see what happens.


Even funnier, the biggest proponent of the bill was caught stealing content on his webpage:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=23783

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SOPA to come to Canada?

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6257/125/

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USA seizes a Canadian domain registered with a Canadian registrar:

http://blog2.easydns.org/2012/02/29/ver ... thorities/