Feb
28
2009
Ars Technica reports on a proceeding being held by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission regarding net neutrality. They requested comments from the public as part of the debate, and several Canadian ISPs took the opportunity to explain why they think it’s a bad idea. Quoting: “One of the more interesting responses came from an ISP called Videotron, which told the CRTC that controlling access to content … ‘could be beneficial not only to users of Internet services but to society in general.’ As examples of such benefits, Videotron mentioned the control of spam, viruses, and child pornography. It went on to suggest that graduated response rules — kicking users off the ‘Net after several accusations of copyright infringement — could also be included as a benefit to society in general. … Rogers, one of Canada’s big ISPs, also chimed in and explained that new regulations might limit its ability to throttle P2P uploads, which it does at the moment. ‘P2P file sharing is designed to cause network congestion,’ says the company. ‘It contributes significantly to latency, thereby making the network unreliable for certain users at periods of such congestion.'”
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Feb
20
2009
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Feb
17
2009
PsiCTO writes “The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is going to weigh Internet content regulation — this could mean requiring some amount of Canadian content coming across Canadian pipes. The CRTC is akin to the FCC. They get that they can’t ‘regulate’ the Internet, but are proposing to promote additional Canadian content in some way, as is currently done with radio and TV content. Likely they will discuss tax credits, subsidies, grants, or other traditional mechanisms. What do people think about this? Are there similar efforts, existing or proposed, in other countries?”
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Jan
22
2009
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Jan
22
2009
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Jan
22
2009
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Jan
21
2009
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Jan
13
2009
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Jan
13
2009
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Jan
13
2009
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