Why Broadband's so Goddamn expensive

[Archived in Entry, Mp3 Downloads]

paul on 2004/11/12:

  „He also notes the impending threats -- that your broadband provider might more seriously constrict and restrict the content and data you have access to, either due to contract (say, giving news exclusivity to ABC/Disney) or by threat (pulling the plug on mp3 downloads).“

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Round 86

  „"If the portfolio-bruising dot-com bust wasn't reason enough to detest allthose myopic Internet "visionaries," here's one more. Concerned aboutlawsuits brought by investors who grew tired of getting burned onhigh-flying stocks, the high-tech industry got behind passage of a law in1995 that, among other things, went a long way toward protecting corporateexecutives from prosecution under the Racketeer Influenced & CorruptOrganizations Act (see BW Online, 2/11/02, "Enron Shareholder Suits? Not SoFast").“

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Gavin's Blog.com: FCC's Powell must be held to his word

  „Monday, barring an 11th-hour change of bureaucratic heart, the Federal Communications Commission will give a gaggle of powerful corporations a gift of enormous value. The three Republican commissioners will outvote two Democrats in easing long-standing rules designed to prevent a few companies from controlling too much of the media we read, hear and view.“

http://www.gavinsblog.com/mt/archives/ 000279.html - Cached

Gmail Reviews

  „"In addition to standard features (spell-checking, personalization, attachments), there are some unexpected touches: the ability to'pop off' composition window, keyboard shortcuts (type a key while browsing mail to trigger features);'personal level indicators' (indicate messages sent only to you or to you as opposed to a list); and'snippets' (displaying a section of text from the body of the message, a-la Google searches). That's pretty much it, but this simplicity is deceptive. While any one feature may not rise to the level of revolutionary, as a collection they are.“

http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/reviews.html - Cached

Report: Illegal Music Downloading Climbs

  „The number of U.S. households illegally downloading music from P2P networks is increasing, not decreasing, as the RIAA would have us believe (see "BitTorrent users chuckling over Pew peer-to-peer report"). According to new research from the NPD Group, the number of households availing themselves of peer-to-peer traded MP3 files rose 6 percent in October and 7 percent in November after a six-month decline.“

Found at a page of Barry Ritholtz, posted on 2004/01/16

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game mark pioneer show

  „Aldrich Family comedy 1939 - 1953. Fred Allen Show comedy 1932 - 1949.You Bet Your Life game show 1947 - 1956.“

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