Canada’s telecoms regulator, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is in the midst of a network neutrality proceeding, and the responses that rolled in this week were vociferous. Several ISPs and music groups objected to any such rules, arguing that they might stop ISPs from implementing all sorts of wonderful policies such as P2P [...]
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Norway Education Minister: there’s no future in fighting P2P
Noncommercial file sharing should be legal in Norway, according to the Norwegian Minister of Education. Bård Vegar Solhjell wrote in a blog post last week that file sharing is not only a great way to discover new music, but that “there is no future in fighting” against file sharing services.
“All previous technology advances have led [...]
Debate over indecency filtering in Hong Kong
Hong Kong government is completing its first round of consultation on the Control of Obscene and Indecent Article Ordinance (COIAO) at the end of January, 2009. The most debatable section is on the control over online new media as the existing practice of indecent and obscene censorship is very arbitrary and the extension of [...]
Aussie Internet Filtering Plan to Include P2P Traffic - Zeropaid
Special Broadcasting Service
Aussie Internet Filtering Plan to Include P2P Traffic
Zeropaid, CA - Dec 23, 2008
… far as to try and filter the rest of the world? Other respondents point out that “Internet filtering won’t stop P2P and BitTorrent traffic—so why bother?”
Net filtering trial delay ‘another Govt bungle’ ABC Online
Internet filter trials delayed, P2P now included! iTWire
Aussie government [...]