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Here we'll explore the nexus of legal rulings, Capitol Hill
policy-making, technical standards development, and technological
innovation that creates -- and will recreate -- the networked world as we
know it. Among the topics we'll touch on: intellectual property
conflicts, technical architecture and innovation, the evolution of
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What Does "Copyfight" Mean?
Copyfight, the Solo Years: April 2002-March 2004
1. Anonymous on June 30, 2006 1:38 AM writes...
The peculiar thing is that he is using an evil format (Real) on his blog, rather than something nonproprietary like Ogg Vorbis Video. I would have expected the father of the Web would not send mixed messages by speaking out in favor of net neutrality on the one hand, and pushing people to deal with a particularly ill-behaved corporation on the other. And Real is guilty of all of the following offensive Internet behaviors:
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* Spyware (some versions of the player software, which you will need to download to view Tim's videos, phone home with individually identifiable GUIDs and other data)
* DRM...
2. Neo on July 11, 2006 10:38 AM writes...
What happened to the article after this one? It disappeared when the new one on copyright verse appeared! Also, the remember me thing is still not working, and "blinks" with comments still incorrectly show as having zero comments.
Permalink to Comment3. Anonymous on July 11, 2006 11:09 AM writes...
Maybe I'm just extremely slow, but I can't seem to understand what the Berners-Lee quote means. If that is what net neutrality is, how would unregulated ISPs violate net neutrality? What is the non-what-if-favoritism scenario in which that happens?
Permalink to Comment4. Anonymous on July 14, 2006 9:28 AM writes...
What the quote means is that two parties should be able to get a certain level of communication over the net, without the ISP preferentially favoring someone else's traffic over theirs. Cringely had a good analysis of this a couple weeks ago.
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