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============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. Franklin D. Roosevelt Opposition Grows To 'Intercarrier Compensation Reform' - Martin's latest baby bell gift not going over wellâ¦, dslreports Nearly 75 members of Congress are urging the FCC to delay its November 4 vote on revamping both the Universal Service Fund and the intercarrier compensation system until more extensive public review can be completed. As we recently reported, the FCC's Kevin Martin is pushing a plan written by Verizon and AT&T aimed at allowing them to pay less to smaller rural carriers to connect calls. Verizon and AT&T's plan http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Opposition-Grows-To-Intercarrier-Compensation-Reform-98753 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/rcomp.htm FCC Poised To Approve White Space Broadband - McDowell: Could see a 5-0 approval...., dslreports Despite a last ditch effort by the National Association of Broadcasters, the politicians they pay to love them and Dolly Parton, it appears that the November 4 vote on white space broadband will not only move forward, it may pass overwhelmingly. FCC Commissioner Robert "what broadband problem?" McDowell tells Reuters he thinks there's a good chance the vote could be 5-0 in favor, quite a feat for a frequently http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-Poised-To-Approve-White-Space-Broadband-98767 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm#white Dolly Parton enters 'white space' debate, CNET The country music artist joins broadcasters in their fight to delay the FCC vote on whether to open up so-called white space spectrum for unlicensed use. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10077742-94.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm#white Another Broadband Tech Exec Says There's No Bandwidth Crunch, Techdirt We've pointed out in the past that whenever you hear warnings about a coming broadband crunch, it almost always comes from consultants and politicians. If it comes directly from companies, it's inevitably from the CEO or lobbyists. Yet, when you talk to execs who actually are technologists (even at telcos) they're quite willing to admit that the whole broadband crunch issue is something of a myth. All you need to do is regular upgrades to the network, and most recognize that there's no risk to a network getting http://techdirt.com/articles/20081028/0333332667.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/tiers.htm IPv6: Zeno's Paradox and Invisible Brick Walls, CircleID As we continue our ride toward the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses, Regional Internet Registries public discussion groups such as the ARIN PPML mailing list remain filled with endless discussions on how large swaths of allocated IPv4 addresses are unused, should be reclaimed or recycled one way or another, maybe be put on the free market and sold to the highest bidder or parsed out in more egalitarian controlled ways. http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081029_ipv6_zeno_invisible_brick_walls/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm Comcast raises outlook on strong quarter, Globe and Mail Video revenue rose as the cable firm added digital subscribers http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheGlobeAndMail-Technology/~3/435750290/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/comcast.htm Qwest cutting 1,200 jobs as profit drops, Globe and Mail Revenue also dropped at the Denver-based phone company http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheGlobeAndMail-Technology/~3/435750289/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/qwest.htm Iran - Government continues to harass cyber-feminists in attempt to silence them - 29.10.2008, RSF No description http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=29135 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/me.htm#iran Reflections on the 10th Anniversary of the Sonny Bono Act, PK The 10th anniversary of the DMCA is not the only infamous 10th anniversary that Public Knowledge gets to âcelebrateâ this week. Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the enactment of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998. That law extended copyright terms from 50 years after the life of an author and 70 years in the case of corporations, to 70 years beyond the life of an author and 95 years in the case of corporations. Named after Sonny Bono, the late Congressman best known for his musical and http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/436205460/1830 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm Camcording in movie theater results in 21-month sentence, Ars Technica A man who pleaded guilty to recording at least two movies in a theater with his camcorder has been sentenced to 21 months in prisonâand may be linked to more than 100 other illegal films. The sentence comes as the movie industry lobbies for tougher laws, even though the current ones apparently are working just fine. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081029-camcording-in-movie-theater-results-in-21-month-sentence.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm A decade of the DMCA: keep the Safe Harbor, ditch the rest, Ars Technica Ten years after the passage of the DMCA, and the consequences of the law have become clear: safe harbor provisions have been good, anticircumvention provisions bad, and all of it leaves companies, consumers, and even presidential candidates victims of spurious abuse http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081028-adecade-of-the-dmca-keep-the-safe-harbor-ditch-the-rest.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/dmca.htm Christian Science Monitor ends print edition, Lost Remote The Christian Science Monitor will be the first national daily newspaper to give up on print, focusing its resources on CSMonitor.com as well as starting a weekly magazine. Sure, itâs not publicly traded â nor has it generated much in print advertising â but the move from print to online will be watched carefully by the newspaper industry. http://www.lostremote.com/2008/10/28/christian-science-monitor-ends-print-edition/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm CAN-Spam-a-Friend?--Hoang v. Reunion.com, Tech & Marketing Law Hoang v. Reunion.com sidesteps an eagerly anticipated legal dispute over the legality of commercial address book scraping and 'send-to-a-friend' emails,... http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2008/10/canspamafriend.htm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/ Guy Who Insists E-Voting Machines Work Fine... Demonstrates They Don't, Techdirt If someone pitched a movie based on e-voting machines that work as bad as the ones being used in the current election, the story would be dumped as being unrealistic. But truth is, indeed, often stranger than fiction. You may recall on Friday that we had a post about problems with e-voting machines in West Virginia selecting the wrong candidate when voters touched the screen. Various officials rushed to insist that there was absolutely nothing wrong. One, the local county clerk, Jeff Waybright insisted that the http://techdirt.com/articles/20081029/0131342676.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/vote/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc To [un]subscribe to Cybertelecom-l send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the command [un]SUBSCRIBE CYBERTELECOM-L. 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