The book Piracy of Digital Content is a thorough review of digital content, the infringement of copyrighted content, and the difficulties that are produced to copyright owners and policy makers in combating piracy.
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A study spanning four Scandinavian countries with a population of 16 million people found no increase in brain cancer rates resulting from the use in cell phones. The results were published at the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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The FCC’s Chief Technologist Jon Peha says that the FCC doesn’t know how the NPRM should be defined and they are seeking answers. Digital Society is happy to oblige and we have put forth some very specific questions and answers and we welcome an open and meaningful debate.
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In the current make up of the content provider/ISP/end-user trio, there are still questions pertaining to how and who payment should be coming from for the delivery of Internet content and services.
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Sam Diaz made some great points in his blog posting “Bill aims to limit wireless early termination fees; Do we need this?” Senator Amy Klobucher (D-Minn) has put forth a bill that aims to limit the size of Early Termination Fees (ETF), but why?
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Google just launched a new free DNS service that promises to be faster and more reliable than your ISP’s DNS service.
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In Drs. Katz and Suter’s research paper on the Broadband Stimulus Plan, he investigates the potential jobs that could be produced using funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The paper does take in consideration jobs generated by grant monies and jobs created by network deployment.
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Is piracy through analog audio/video ports a serious threat or an unproven myth? Digital Society has conducted research that shows that the threat is real.
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We’ve had our turn knocking down the Berkman broadband study and even responded to Yochai Benkler’s response, but Mark Goldberg has done a great job of summarizing the latest brutal critiques.
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Wireless networks are vastly different from wired networks in terms of the underlying technology and economics that support these networks. Wireless networks have always been regulated differently, so why is that being changed now?
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