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If you're reading this post, chances are that you're pretty familiar with the concept of net neutrality and understand what's at stake in the debate surrounding the FCC's proposed rules. But what about your parents, grandparents, friends and significant others? If you know someone who could use a quick primer on net neutrality, send them a link to this five minute video. Directed by PK board member Jesse Dylan and featuring PK president Gigi Sohn alongside a sampling of the usual suspects (Professors Lawrence Lessig and Ed Felton, members of the band Ok Go, Free Press' Ben Scott, etc.), the video explains what net neutrality is and why it's critical that we preserve the free and open nature of the Internet. Help us protect free speech, innovation and economic opportunity--help spread the word by forwarding this video along to friends and family.If you're reading this post, chances are that you're pretty familiar with... more
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Gigi Sohn of Public Knowledge on one of the greatest threats that the open internet faces. It's called Deep Packet Inspection or DPI and allows internet service providers to inspect data sent to and from your computer including emails, downloads, and even simple web browsing. Here's how it works. When you use the internet the data you send and receive is broken up into chunks called packets that are wrapped in envelopes. Normally your provider acts like a postal carrier. DPI, however, changes the nature of those transactions and allows your internet service provider to open your letter and share that information with advertisers without ever consulting you, the user. Sohn says it poses a threat to net neutrality and freedom of speech.Gigi Sohn of Public Knowledge on one of the greatest threats that the open internet... more
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What does Network Neutrality actually mean? Basically, that the provider that lets you connect to the Web should not play a role in accessing contents on the Internet, it should not discriminate the sources or play favorites.
Everyone has to be connected to everyone else on an open base, and the network’s only job is to move data - not to choose which data to privilege with higher quality service.
This concept is strictly connected to the one of Digital Divide......
(continue....)What does Network Neutrality actually mean? Basically, that the provider that lets... more
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California's building codes, plumbing standards and criminal laws can be found online.
But if you want to download and save those laws to your computer, forget it.
The state claims copyright to those laws. It dictates how you can access and distribute them -- and therefore how much you'll have to pay for print or digital copies.
It forbids people from storing or distributing its laws without consent.
That doesn't sit well with Carl Malamud, a Sebastopol resident with an impressive track record of pushing for digital access to public information. He wants California -- and every other federal, state and local agency -- to drop their copyright claims on law, contending it will pave the way for innovators to create new ways of searching and presenting laws.California's building codes, plumbing standards and criminal laws can be found... more
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Earlier this week, EFF filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Quanta v. LG Electronics, a case that asks whether patent owners can impose restrictions on what you can do with a product after you buy it. The brief, filed on behalf of EFF, Consumers Union, and Public Knowledge, makes a simple point: when a consumer buys a patented product from an authorized seller, the patent owner is not entitled to use patent law to restrict the purchaser's subsequent ability to use, repair, or resell the product.
In other words, you bought it, you own it. Earlier this week, EFF filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Quanta v.... more
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This past summer, colleges and universities had quite a scare when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid proposed an amendment to a huge higher education bill that would have conditioned financial aid on higher educational institutions employing filtering technology and would have required the Secretary of Education to devise a bad actors list of the 25 schools with the highest levels of illegal P2P file sharing based on content industry numbers. After a fierce call to action, the higher ed community and their friends were able to beat back the amendment and get it replaced with another that required only that higher ed institutions advise their students in writing of the legal consequences of file sharing.This past summer, colleges and universities had quite a scare when Senate Majority... more
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