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dinsdag 13 januari 2015
donderdag 1 mei 2014
FCC denies plans to kill net neutrality
first emerged on Wednesday evening this week indicating that a draft FCC document includes new rules that would allow Internet Service Providers, or ISPs, to give preferential treatment to content producers willing to pay more money for better access to consumers.The chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission is attempting to refute recent reports that suggest that the FCC is on track to terminate the basic principle of net neutrality.
If true, the rule would go against the fundamentals of net neutrality and reportedly open the door for major ISPs like Verizon and Comcast to give bandwidth-hogging business, such as Skype or Netflix, better access to customers at a higher price.
Tom Wheeler, a former cable industry lobbyist-turned-FCC chairman, wrote on the agency’s officialblog on Thursday that those latest reports are brimming with “a great deal of misinformation” that will be clarified later in the day when the draft Open Internet Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in question is officially circulated among the commission.
Wheeler gave no indication of when the FCC will release those proposed rules to the public, however, but in his latest blog post he claims that the earlier reports were highly inaccurate.
According to Wheeler, the notice will mandate that all ISPs “not act in a commercially unreasonable manner to harm the internet, including favoring the traffic from an affiliated entity.”
“To be very direct, the proposal would establish that behavior harmful to consumers or competition by limiting the openness of the Internet will not be permitted,” he wrote.
Wheeler’s latest remarks echo statements he made late Wednesday in which he insisted there would be “no ‘turnaround in policy’” and that “[t]he same rules will apply to all internet content.”
But within minutes of Thursday’s blog going live, Wheeler was already being called out by critics, including reporter Chris Welch at The Verge website.
“Despite his best efforts, Wheeler's words won't do much to calm the storm,” Welch wrote. If the FCC agrees to let ISPs provide a “fast lane” to high-paying content producers as long as the fee is a "commercially reasonable" one, as reported, then the matter of what is considered reasonable still needs to be weighed.
According to The Verge’s Welch, that could be a problem. On Thursday, he wrote, a spokesperson for the FCC that was asked that very question said the agency doesn’t quite know yet.
"We want to have a broad public debate. We want to know how people are affected in their daily life. We want to know how businesses are being affected. We want to know if innovation is being affected,” Welch heard from the FCC spokesperson.
“Based on that statement, the FCC seems aware that this ‘pay for access’ aspect could bring on some trouble,” Welch reported. “But the FCC won't eliminate the idea entirely.”
Wheeler hopes to have the text of the draft Open Internet Notice of Proposed Rulemaking adopted by the end of the year, he wrote.
Source: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1010340/pg1
donderdag 15 augustus 2013
Pirate Bay Launches Anti-Censorship Browser
The launch comes as TPB celebrates 10 years of harboring ‘pirated’ and other online content.
Rather than being standalone software, PirateBrowser is a combination – or a ‘bundle’ – of a portable version of the Firefox internet browser and a popular client of the anonymous Tor network, Vidalia. The package is said to have the FoxyProxy add-on and “some custom configs” built in, while assuring that none of the programs had been modified, and that it does not contain any adware, trojans, or toolbars.
“It’s a simple one-click browser that circumvents censorship and blockades and makes the site instantly available and accessible. No bundled ad-ware, toolbars or other crap, just a pre-configured Firefox browser,” a TPB administrator nicknamed Winston said in a release message.
He also urged people to recommend PirateBrowser to anyone, who “can’t access TPB or other torrents-sites because they are blocked.”
According to information posted on piratebrowser.com, countries that have blocked access to the Pirate Bay include Iran, North Korea, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Italy and Ireland.
While enabling the internet users in those countries “to remove limits on accessing websites your government doesn’t want you to know about,” PirateBrowser does not guarantee web anonymity. To ensure complete anonymity, its compilers recommend using VPN (Virtual Private Network) services.
The pre-configured browser’s release is the latest effort by the Pirate Bay to disregard the growing number of legal actions mounted against it and other file-sharing websites, as well as against the distribution of copyright-infringing materials on the web in general.
Most recently, corporate giants EMI, Sony, Warner Music and Universal won a lawsuit against TPB in Ireland. A local court on June 12 ruled that all major Irish ISPs must block access to The Pirate Bay in 30 days’ time.
Similar court decisions were taken in the UK and the Netherlands last year. Moreover, after a complaint by Dutch entertainment industry’s anti-piracy association BREIN, a court in The Hague ordered the Pirate Party of the Netherlands to stop publicizing ways to circumvent the block. The party claimed it was legally banned even from giving a website link to the well-known Tor project.
Facebook and Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger have also been blocking all messages containing links to the Pirate Bay. While Facebook claimed it has the right to use blocks on links where there is a“demonstrated disregard for intellectual property rights” based on their terms of service, Microsoft simply started flagging such links as “unsafe.”
The efficiency of all such limitations have been questioned by internet experts, as the use of proxy servers have continued to grant an easy access to the blocked websites for those craving for free media file content. The new TPB tool could thus mark a further success of free internet activists in their fight against the corporate rights-holders, as it brings the same practice to a wider audience of less experienced users.
According to information posted on piratebrowser.com, countries that have blocked access to the Pirate Bay include Iran, North Korea, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Italy and Ireland.
While enabling the internet users in those countries “to remove limits on accessing websites your government doesn’t want you to know about,” PirateBrowser does not guarantee web anonymity. To ensure complete anonymity, its compilers recommend using VPN (Virtual Private Network) services.
The pre-configured browser’s release is the latest effort by the Pirate Bay to disregard the growing number of legal actions mounted against it and other file-sharing websites, as well as against the distribution of copyright-infringing materials on the web in general.
Most recently, corporate giants EMI, Sony, Warner Music and Universal won a lawsuit against TPB in Ireland. A local court on June 12 ruled that all major Irish ISPs must block access to The Pirate Bay in 30 days’ time.
Similar court decisions were taken in the UK and the Netherlands last year. Moreover, after a complaint by Dutch entertainment industry’s anti-piracy association BREIN, a court in The Hague ordered the Pirate Party of the Netherlands to stop publicizing ways to circumvent the block. The party claimed it was legally banned even from giving a website link to the well-known Tor project.
Facebook and Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger have also been blocking all messages containing links to the Pirate Bay. While Facebook claimed it has the right to use blocks on links where there is a“demonstrated disregard for intellectual property rights” based on their terms of service, Microsoft simply started flagging such links as “unsafe.”
The efficiency of all such limitations have been questioned by internet experts, as the use of proxy servers have continued to grant an easy access to the blocked websites for those craving for free media file content. The new TPB tool could thus mark a further success of free internet activists in their fight against the corporate rights-holders, as it brings the same practice to a wider audience of less experienced users.
woensdag 15 mei 2013
We Are Legion
Documentaire over hacktivisme, activisme dat zich grotendeels digitaal afspeelt, en dan met name enkele significante operaties die onder de naam Anonymous werden uitgevoerd. Anonymous is geen groep met een leider, maar is een idee. Afhankelijk van het doel en de middelen van een operatie verschilt de groep activisten van grootte en samenstelling, maar er zijn wereldwijd potentieel miljoenen gebruikers die voor een vrij internet en een vrije wereld opkomen.
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