Princeton Senior Sauhard Sahi (under the supervision of Princeton Professor Ed Felton) conducted a study of 1021 randomly selected files pulled from the trackerless variant of BitTorrent.  10 of the 1021 files were found to be likely non-infringing, which would mean that more than 99% of the files sampled were copyrighted content. Figure 1 – [...]

A report from the Office of Naval Research that is about 15 years too late for myself, but may be helpful for those half my age to wave in the face of their parents was released this week that highlights the benefits of video games.

CNET’s Marguerite Reardon reports that AT&T will spend $19 billion in 2010 on Wireless network upgrades, which will be $2 billion more than 2009.  The money will add 2000 more cell sites and add more fiber links to its existing cell site back haul infrastructure.  The improved back haul will prepare AT&T for the eventual [...]

ISPs shall make no policy respecting an establishment of order to network traffic, or prioritizing the VoIP, video or game traffic; or abridging the flow of P2P traffic, or the Hulu; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and illegally download copyrighted material.

It appears that McGraw Hill and Silicon Alley Insider have confirmed and leaked some information about Apple’s Tablet product being announced today at 10:00AM Pacific Standard Time.  The Apple Tablet will essentially be a jumbo sized 10 inch iPhone ARM based (rumored to be a PA Semi CPU acquired by Apple) slate device rumored to have [...]

BitTorrent continues to claim that their application is “network friendly” despite all the evidence to the contrary, yet their assertions are cited as fact by the blogosphere and public policy groups with nothing to back their claims. It turns out that BitTorrent made the conscious decision to be more selfish rather than friendly yet they oppose common sense solutions at the network level.

The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation hosted a forum today to discuss a paper by Milton Mueller: Info-Communism? Ownership and Freedom in the Digital Age.

Free Press spent a lot of words in their NPRM filing to argue that the FCC’s definition of reasonable network management practices was unreasonable. One of their kinder passages states: The Commission’s proposed definition is circular, ambiguous, and incomplete, and without further definition will create loopholes and result in future errors in policymaking. So what [...]

Inimai Chettiar and Scott Holladay from the Institute for Policy Integrity New York University School of Law want to ban advanced Internet architectures like Paid Peering, and they believe that no content provider should be permitted to purchase better connectivity. This is the type of economic and engineering nonsense that we hope to avoid.

Inimai Chettiar and Scott Holladay from the Institute for Policy Integrity New York University School of Law have responded to my critique of their report with the following rebuttal posted in its entirety. Note that Digital Society does not hold the following views, but we’re going to publish it as is and respond to it with our own rebuttal.