Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, the DRM of the future? (Sunday 14th of September 2008 12:11:00 AM)
Filed under: Home Entertainment, easily carried Audio, compact Video
We've heard this about
this dream so many times before, DRM that will make digital media as easy to use and as
customer friendly as a 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. ...
(more)Panasonic holds live tru2way demonstration on TH-50PZ80Q plasma (Friday 05th of September 2008 10:46:00 PM)
Filed under: Displays, Home Entertainment
They said they were going to do it, and do it they
did. While Samsung's tru2way "demonstration" was barely more than a hack job used to show off
what the mechanics was about, Panasonic demoed the real deal at ...
(more)Comcast To Cap Data Transfers At 250 GB In October (Friday 29th of August 2008 05:45:01 PM)
JagsLive writes with this story from PC Magazine: "Comcast has third edition by the editors of
the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 that all residential customers
will be subject to a 250 gigabyte per month data limit control gate ...
(more)Comcast Has 30 Days To 'Fess Up About P2P Throttling (Friday 22nd of August 2008 06:30:02 AM)
NegRo_slim writes with some welcome news from Ars Technica: "Comcast has 30 days to carry the
details of its 'unreasonable network superintendence practices' to the Federal Communications
Commission, the agency warned Wednesday morning as it released ...
(more)AT&T tells the FCC it'll cut off wireless P2P users (Wednesday 30th of July 2008 06:39:00 PM)
Filed under: CellphonesIt looks like the FCC's scrutiny into Comcast's questionable traffic
government is turning up a number of interesting details, the latest of which comes from AT&T's
Robert Quinn, who told FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell that, "use ...
(more)FCC Votes To Punish Comcast (Monday 28th of July 2008 04:00:01 AM)
MaineCoasts brings news that three out of the five FCC delegate have voted in favor of
punishing Comcast for their P2P throttling practices. The observation of Comcast has been
underway since January, and FCC chair Kevin Martin made clear their conclusion ...
(more)ISPs Experimenting With New P2P Controls (Saturday 21st of June 2008 09:00:06 AM)
Alphadogg points us to a NetworkWorld story about the search by ISPs for new ways to combat the
web traffic issues caused by P2P applications. Among the typical suggestions of bandwidth caps
and usage-based pricing, telecom panelists at a recent run-in ...
(more)Legal Trouble For Multiple ISPs (Sunday 08th of June 2008 09:40:33 PM)
Ars Technica reports that Comcast has been hit with three new class-action lawsuits due to the
company's traffic-shaping practices. "The lawsuits ... ask that Comcast be barred from
continuation school to violate various state laws, in addition to unspecified ...
(more)AT&T Denies Resetting P2P Connections (Saturday 26th of April 2008 11:30:03 PM)
Betaville points out memo AT&T filed with the FCC in which they denied throttling traffic by
resetting P2P file-sharing connections. Earlier this week, a study published by the Vuze team
found AT&T to have the 25th highest (13th highest if extra Comcast ...
(more)Comcast tells AT&T to lay off its coax, seeks restraining order (Thursday 24th of April 2008 11:22:00 PM)
Filed under: NetworkingNever one shy to pick a fight, Comcast is now taking square aim at AT&T,
which it alleges is wreaking havoc with its national information infrastructure service as a
result of shoddy installs of the company's U-verse TV service. ...
(more)ISPs Say P4P Negates Need for Net Neutrality Regs (Saturday 12th of April 2008 08:15:10 AM)
Donut hole hole writes "AT&T and Comcast are using recent successful P2P trials to argue to the
FCC that there's no need for strong traffic management or net neutrality rules. 'Comcast's
statement, filed with the FCC on April 9th, hails an announcement ...
(more)Comcast sues FCC for not letting it own anything it wants (Friday 14th of March 2008 11:14:00 PM)
Filed under: HDTV, Home EntertainmentGiven Comcast's notoriously shady service, we're not
exactly in favor of the company being allowed to ruthlessly torture service any more markets
than necessary, but we can see why it might be a little frustrated with ...
(more)Competitors Ally With Comcast In FCC P2P Filings (Wednesday 20th of February 2008 06:30:04 AM)
Crocoduck writes "Right before the bound passed for filing know* in the FCC observation of
Comcast's traffic-management practices, telecoms and other cable companies submitted a slew of
intelligence defending Comcast's actions to the FCC. 'Just about ...
(more)Comcast's New Terms of Service Disclose Traffic Management (Friday 08th of February 2008 08:30:02 PM)
Cremou brings us word that Comcast has changed its Terms of Service to include policies on
traffic management. This comes after the FCC's recent decision to investigate Comcast's P2P
throttling. The language in the updated Terms of Service, by the book ...
(more)EFF claims that Comcast is still meddling with data (Sunday 02nd of December 2007 06:36:00 AM)
Filed under: NetworkingAccording to a report released by the online banking Frontier
understructure (EFF), Comcast has yet to relinquish its data discriminating habits, and users
attempting to share content via P2P could still face slowdowns and unexpected ...
(more)Comcast Continues to Block Peer to Peer Traffic (Saturday 01st of December 2007 06:30:04 PM)
Narramissic writes "A report released ascension day by the ebanking Frontier bottom line* (EFF)
finds that Comcast continues to use hacker-like techniques to slow down customers' connections
to some P-to-P (peer-to-peer) applications. The EFF said that ...
(more)Comcast to NFL Network: stop coaxing customers away... or else (Wednesday 21st of November 2007 05:27:00 PM)
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
It's no secret that Comcast and the NFL Network don't
have the rosiest of relationships, and now that Comcast won a ruling (that's being appealed, to
no one's shock) over what tier the channel was being placed on, ...
(more)Comcast May Face Lawsuits Over BitTorrent Filtering (Wednesday 24th of October 2007 03:45:06 AM)
An anonymous reader writes "It's been widely reported that Comcast is engaged in a sneaky form
of Internet filtering. The company is terminating its customers' BitTorrent sessions by sending
disingenuous data onto the network. The end result is that instead ...
(more)Comcast engaging in data discrimination, claims AP (Friday 19th of October 2007 08:51:00 PM)
Filed under: NetworkingISPs throttling or downright banning access is certainly not unheard of
outside of America, but for Comcast customers fully expecting an unadulterated portal to the
intarwebs, the AP's latest findings may cause some serious kvetching. ...
(more)Comcast Confirmed as Discriminating Against FileSharing Traffic (Saturday 20th of October 2007 12:00:06 AM)
An anonymous reader writes "Comcast has been singled out as discriminating against filesharing
traffic in quantitative tests conducted by the registered representative Press. MSNBC's
coverage of the discovery is quite even-handed. The site notes that ...
(more)Inside Comcast's Surveillance Policies (Tuesday 16th of October 2007 08:30:04 PM)
Monk writes "The Federation of american stars and stripes Scientists has obtained a lately
disclosed Comcast Handbook for Law Enforcement which details its policies for divulging its
customers' personal information. (Here's the handbook itself in PDF ...
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