Swedish court overturns landmark file sharing ruling.
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20091013/tc_afp/swedeninternettrialfilesharing
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FCC chairman warns of "looming spectrum crisis" for wireless devices.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i16vlm3iDn2BQOr_qHdxxk4Q_qTAD9B6LPNG2
Well, Thomas Malthus warned more than 200 years ago of a food crisis as the industrial revolution expanded populations, and that did not happen either. So don't bet against technology. Incresed efficiency in wireless data protocols trumps spectrum capacity all the time.Comcast and NBC Universal: antitrust apocalypse?
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/10/01/comcast-and-nbc-universal-antitrust-apocalypse/
"It's virtually guaranteed that FCC [Federal Communications Commission] regulators would review this deal," Glenn Manishin, a former antitrust counsel and trial attorney at the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, toldDailyFinance. "This could be a signature case for Chairman [Julius] Genachowski to demonstrate the principles he enunciated when he was confirmed." Manishin predicted any deal would also face review by the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department.
Don't Bail Out Newspapers—Let Them Die and Get Out of the Way
From Newsweek's "Techtonic Shifts" bog.
Gore-backed electric car company gets $529M US govt. loan.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125383160812639013.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLTopStories
Why a tiny car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore and his new Kleiner Perkins venture partners merit a $529 million taxpayer-funded loan to build a hybrid sports car -- in Finland of all places -- that will sell for about $89,000 is simply beyond me. This is not about stimulus, investment or energy efficiency in the slightest.
Do Americans really want “Net neutrality” regulation?
http://techliberation.com/2009/09/24/do-americans-really-want-net-neutrality-regulation/
In fact, “Net Neutrality” regulation is a niche cause trumpeted incessantly by the blogosphere with about the same level of broad popular interest online as “housing rights”—a topic about which most of us probably don’t often fall into conversation (unless we happen to live in Bakuninist Berkeley or the Bolivarian Caliphate of Cambridge, MA, ground-zero of American Chavismo). “Net neutrality” currently seems to attract about the same level of interest as the term “end the Fed,” the title of Rep. Ron Paul’s call for abolishing America’s central bank—something I’ve been ranting about for years but which, until recently, most people found about as bizarre and irrelevant as my (sincere) insistence that President Jefferson should have obtained a constitutional amendment rather than simply assuming the power to execute the Louisiana Purchase.
EU releases evidence in Intel antitrust case.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125352664532127359.html
In emails, PC makers feared retaliation by chip giant; "Best Friend Money Can Buy"
Net neutrality, broadband top FCC oversight hearing agenda.
http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/09/net-neutrality-broadband-top-fcc-hearing-agenda.html
Telecom lawyer Glenn Manishin, a partner at Duane Morris who is following the issue closely, said he has observed “momentum from a policy standpoint from the new administration and its Congressional allies to codify and perhaps expand the FCC’s net neutrality principles. But in absence of clear legislation, there are some very significant legal issues regarding the FCC’s power to impose those regulations on otherwise unregulated Internet service providers.”
Outed Skanks blogger wants $15 Million from Google.
http://www.crn.com/security/219401151;jsessionid=YEIXGMNAJY0ZFQE1GHRSKHWATMY32JVN
