http://handsoff.org/blog A coalition of Internet users and companies united to keep the internet free from further government regulation and taxes. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:30:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I fight authority, Authority always wins I been doing it since I was a young kid I come out grinnin' I fight authority, Authority always wins -- John Cougar Mellencamp, “Authority Song” Our friend and strong Net neutrality proponent Harold Feld is out with this ringing endorsement of the FCC’s existing legal authority to ... http://handsoff.org/blog/regulation/with-one-feld-swoop/ Pike & Fisher’s annual broadband summit just concluded and you can click here for the Hands Off white paper, “Net Neutrality Regulation Will Hinder Broadband Deployment.” An excerpt: “The Internet is at the beginning of a remarkable transformation: the long-awaited convergence of television, video, and the Net. Two years ago, ... http://handsoff.org/blog/net-neutrality/pike%e2%80%99s-peak/ Jonathan Zittrain is the leading Internet professor in the world. A founder of the Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet & Society, he currently is Oxford University’s Internet guru. He has a new, widely-heralded book: “The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It.” No ... http://handsoff.org/blog/net-neutrality/a-book-review-professor-zittrain-refuses-to-line-up-with-net-neutrality-zealots/ “Consumer advocates and Web heavyweights like Google Inc. and Amazon Inc. [say that] it's a bedrock principle of the Internet that all traffic be treated equally.” -- Associated Press, October 19, 2007 Oh really? The Net neutrality implication of yesterday’s announcement is clear: Technology increasingly has the potential to ... http://handsoff.org/blog/net-neutrality/why-all-data-is-not-equal/ Law professor Susan Crawford just posted a lengthy legal and historical analysis on the differences between “information” and “telecommunications” services. Two points: First, in one sense, her essay is ruefully amusing since it’s all about the difficulty of keeping regulations current as technology changes. But that’s precisely the issue with Net ... http://handsoff.org/blog/regulation/clarence-darrow-for-the-defense/ Richard Bennett takes a look at Save The Internet’s arguments for net neutrality. Apparently, lacking good examples, they've decided to make stuff up. He annotates, with corrections… “In October 2007, the Associated Press busted Comcast for blocking its users’ access to peer-to-peer file-sharing networks like BitTorrent and Gnutella. This ... http://handsoff.org/blog/net-neutrality/but-other-than-that-mrs-lincoln%e2%80%a6/ While we were enjoying the beach last weekend, tech genius Richard Bennett noticed what looks like a fatal flaw with the Max Planck Institute’s Glasnost test. We’ll leave the engineering issues to Messers. Bennett and Ou but at a minimum, Bennett’s discovery should put to ... http://handsoff.org/blog/regulation/duh-sveedanya-glasnost/ At least in this case, what happens in Vegas shouldn’t stay in Vegas: "Net neutrality" is a solution in search of a problem. The Internet has delivered magnificent new opportunities to Americans precisely because it has been left free to develop with minimal government interference. Let's leave it that way. ... http://handsoff.org/blog/regulation/boxcars/ Hands Off The Internet has a letter in today's New York Times. To the Editor: Your May 19 editorial “Democracy and the Web” argues for broad new federal regulation of the Internet — a first in Internet history. You say that “if Internet service providers started discriminating among content to make ... http://handsoff.org/blog/regulation/regulating-the-net/ According to today’s AP wire, NetFlix has started to accelerate its transition away from a mail-in business model. The company has begun marketing a broadband device that consumers can use to stream movies and TV programs. And the impact on the Net? Consider a few numbers courtesy ... http://handsoff.org/blog/net-neutrality/for-your-weekend-drive/