TIM Italy: HSPA network Italy’s leading mobile operator by subscribers, Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM), has launched a HSPA+ network in Milan, providing peak download speeds of 28Mbps and upload speeds of up to 5.8Mbps.

facebook: violation of copyright Earlier this year, we had trouble understanding Facebook’s reasoning for suing Power.com, a site that tried to aggregate a variety of social network sites into a single interface (something that seems rather useful). However, Facebook insisted that it violated its copyright, and in a slightly troubling ruling in the case, the Read more about facebook: violation of copyright[…]

NYt: spamming Shortened URLs are great for character-conscious Tweeters, marketers who want to track Web site visitors, and even perhaps an opportunity fo r venture capitalists who are investing in companies such as Bit.ly. But they are also providing a boon to spammers. MessageLabs, a division of Symantec, said today the presence of shortened URLs Read more about NYt: spamming[…]

Privacy Vs Entertainment Norway Decides Privacy Is More Important Than Protecting The Entertainment Industry’s Business Model from the good-for-them dept It appears that Norway has decided that it’s sick of passing laws designed to prop up obsolete industry business models at the expense of individual privacy. Norway Decides Privacy Is More Important Than Protecting The Read more about Privacy Vs Entertainment[…]

Italian Court: IP evidence an Italian court is now recognizing that IP addresses alone are not enough to identify a file sharer, and even throwing out cases that don’t have much more in the way of evidence. Still, in most of the various cases, it’s never really about getting people to court. The industry prefers Read more about Italian Court: IP evidence[…]

Spain Court: file sharing is legal While the entertainment industry has been working over time to try to stop file sharing in Spain, court ruling after court ruling has found that personal file sharing is perfectly reasonable and legal — and that sites that merely link to content rather than host it (i.e., search engines Read more about Spain Court: file sharing is legal[…]

France: hadopi Conseil Constitutionnel Les députés socialistes devaient saisir hier le Conseil constitutionnel sur le projet de loi «Création et Internet». Dans son recours, le PS soulève onze points d’inconstitutionnalité. Ils demandent notamment au Conseil de censurer le système de «double peine» imposant aux internautes de continuer à payer leur abonnement, alors que l’accès sera Read more about France: hadopi Conseil Constitutionnel[…]

Les députés adoptent la loi Hadopi L’Assemblée nationale a adopté mardi en nouvelle lecture le projet de loi Création et Internet, qui prévoit de sanctionner le téléchargement illégal par une coupure de l’accès Internet en cas de récidive, par 296 voix contre 233. Ni la majorité ni l’opposition n’ont fait le plein de leurs voix.

hadopi in France French “HADOPI” law implementing “three strikes” policy was adopted by a short majority in National Assembly, after a previous rejection on April 9th1. Members of the majority right-wing party of N. Sarkozy, under high pressure, voted this obsolete text, massively rejected by public opinion and directly opposed by Europe. This legislative process’ Read more about hadopi in France[…]

Net Neutrality: Internet Architecture Implications of Internet architecture upon net neutrality SCOTT JORDAN University of California, Irvine Net neutrality represents the idea that Internet users are entitled to service that does not dis- criminate on the basis of source, destination, or ownership of Internet tra±c.Implications of Internet architecture upon net neutrality SCOTT JORDAN University of Read more about Net Neutrality: Internet Architecture[…]