Essentially because the FCC Net Neutrality proposal is surprisingly fair and seems to stem from compromise from both sides of the debate FreePress has decided the FCC is adopting ‘fake Net Neutrality”.

The FCC has posted a nice HD copy of a video of Chairman Genachowskis presentation from December 1st. The speech goes over the proposal for the rules expected for preserving the “open Internet”.

Mr. Genachowski’s proposal is likely the near-term ceiling on regulation. Policy might get better than today’s proposal, but it’s not likely to get any worse. From what I see today, that’s a win for the Internet, and for the U.S. economy.

Last Monday, the Supreme Court declined to review Tiffany v. eBay, in which the issue, as stated in the legalese of certiorari petitions, was: Whether, under the doctrine of contributory trademark infringement, a defendant can be held liable for operating a marketplace that it knows is used to sell substantial quantities of goods that infringe [...]

Wax and Schanz have thrown together a nice video explaining peering and paid-peering. If you are concerned about the Comcast – Level 3 dispute, this is a good video to get a footing as to what is actually being discussed in the dispute.

It seems like every time there is a problem between business relationships in the telecom world these days, one side screams “Net Neutrality” and the blogosphere, twitterverse and news media go bananas. It’s like screaming fire in a movie theater, or yelling bomb in an airport, or even playing the race card in some hotly debated political issue.

Level 3 won its bid on Netflix content delivery because it intends to break its contractual obligations on peering with Comcast and essentially resell stolen bandwidth to Netflix. Now it makes perfect sense how Level 3 managed to outbid Akamai since no CDN provider operating legally could outbid hot goods.

Dr. Peter Raad is the Executive Director of the Guildhall at Southern Methodist University. It is a graduate level game design program where students are taught through a multidisciplinary approach. Raad and Glassman discuss the ramifications of video games in American culture.

On Thursday, Dec. 2 — the 2010 Phoenix Center Annual U.S. Telecoms Symposium will be held here in DC, 8:30 a.m., to 12:30 p.m. at the University Club. It looks like an interesting morning. Blair Levin, who directed the FCC National Broadband Plan effort will keynote. Other participants are FCC Commissioner Meredith Baker; an Economists [...]

Comcast Internet services had a major Domain Name Service (DNS) outage yesterday across the Eastern states which essentially broke Internet service for most Comcast customers. This brought back some bad memories of a really bad week for Comcast in April of 2005 when Comcast suffered two DNS outages in the same week.