I’ve spent much time debunking the notion that all applications should be treated equally by the network. I’ve also published data showing the harmful effects of BitTorrent which was supposedly “network friendly”, but I haven’t talked about the harmful effects of video streaming from popular services like Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu up until now.

Two important judicial decisions on property rights came down last week, and both were bad news for property owners and creators.

Update – Our own data confirms this. If you hold the edge frame of the iPhone 4 with your bare hands, reception is dramatically slashed. The image below shows this effect in full effect.

Congress has told the FCC no on reclassification and the courts have told the FCC that they cannot exceed their congressional authority, but the current FCC seems determined to shatter the congressional tether based on a manufactured crisis.

Earlier this week I wrote that “Mobile networks aren’t for Video on Demand” which was read by many visitors. The fundamental problem with mobile VoD is that each video user can ask for more network capacity than all of the other phone and web users combined. But this isn’t the end of the road for video on mobile networks and the problems can be overcome with IP multicasting.

It was ironic that the same groups like Free Press that were clamoring for usage based Internet service instead of network management became the same groups that demanded a ban on usage based pricing services. So it came as no surprise to me that the same groups now also oppose AT&T’s new data plans of 200 MB and 2000 MB usage caps.

Economist/columnist/blogger/ex-TreasuryGuy Bruce Bartlett has started Bartlett’s Notations, a new horse in the Fiscal Times stable. He makes the point that it was once difficult to find solid information, but that those who did get it were able to capitalize on it in some fashion, precisely because of its scarcity.

After examining the iPhone 4 advertisements, it appears that Apple is showing 3 to 5 times the Pixels Per Inch (PPI) in their ads when they should only be showing 2 times the PPI.

Every sports fan now knows of an event that will become tagged as THE CALL, the greatest umpiring mistake ever made. The FCC has blown the call on Net Neutrality, and any fool can see it. Persisting in their present course will cause its members to spend their lives being pointed to on the street as the people who ruined the Internet.

Free Press has long claimed that Net Neutrality is crucial in protecting free speech, but now they have signed a petition asking the FCC to start monitoring “hate speech” over the Internet. The hypocrisy isn’t very surprising given that Free Press’ definition of free speech is far from what the definition in the Constitutional since they believe that free speech must be “free as in free beer”, but not free from government control.