Wireless associations and consumer advocates requested exemptions to allow for the circumvention of technological protection measures (TPMs) beyond mobile devices under Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, in filings for the Copyright Office’s triennial rulemaking process Monday. The debate over DMCA Section 1201 has pitted some tech industry officials, who argue that TPMs help thwart piracy, against those who believe that Section 1201 inhibits consumer innovation (see 1409180021). The former group includes the Association for Competitive Technology and Entertainment Software Association; the latter, Public Knowledge and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The filings, which weren't available on the Copyright Office's website, were advanced to us.
Network congestion on the Internet “does not appear to be widespread” and is mostly confined to “recognized business issues” like Netflix’s complaints of streaming latency, a “preliminary” study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) said Wednesday. Congestion that does exist “can come and go essentially overnight” due to provider-initiated network reconfigurations and changes in content routing, the study said (http://bit.ly/1oGQoJG). The results are “very early” findings in a project that will eventually become an “atlas” of congestion on the Internet, said David Clark, senior research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, at a Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee event marking the study’s release.
Network congestion on the Internet “does not appear to be widespread” and is mostly confined to “recognized business issues” like Netflix’s complaints of streaming latency, a “preliminary” study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) said Wednesday. Congestion that does exist “can come and go essentially overnight” due to provider-initiated network reconfigurations and changes in content routing, the study said (http://bit.ly/1oGQoJG). The results are “very early” findings in a project that will eventually become an “atlas” of congestion on the Internet, said David Clark, senior research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, at a Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee event marking the study’s release.
Lawmakers grilled Google over the company’s opposition to HR-3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday. Google’s opposition to the bill stems from what it calls an overly broad definition of illegally infringing sites that could unfairly target legitimate sites, said Katherine Oyama, Google’s copyright counsel. But U.S. Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante told committee members that without a congressional response to the threat of online piracy, “the U.S. copyright system will ultimately fail."
Broadcom started sampling a single decoder/processor chip capable of decoding two separate 3D 1080p streams simultaneously (CED Sept 9 p1) as it chases a market for 3D-capable video gateway set-top boxes, company officials said at a conference in California.
LOS ANGELES -- There are some promising 3D game trends though the technology’s entry into the living room is still in its early stages, THQ Creative Director Luis Gigliotti told us at E3 last week. THQ is “excited about 3D in general,” said Gigliotti. For the technology to become fully accepted by gamers, two things need to happen and they seem to be happening already, he said: The 3D TV installed base needs to grow and the technology needs to start being used for more than just an “aesthetic” effect in games.
PORTLAND, Ore. State telecom regulators at their summer meeting adopted a controversial resolution urging policymakers to continue states’ active role in overseeing interconnection and resolving interconnection disputes, no matter what new telecom technologies for voice service see use. But at our deadline they had not decided on another touchy resolution that would call for state-enforced national wireless consumer protection standards.
Public-private partnerships and finding new revenue sources can make municipal Wi-Fi services successful, despite the recent trend to abandon such projects, analysts said. Some recent examples have shown this, they said. Some of municipal Wi-Fi services have flourished with the right business model. For example, after Philadelphia’s free municipal network seemingly failed when EarthLink backed out, local investors announced plans to take over the project.
Public-private partnerships and finding new revenue sources can make municipal Wi-Fi services successful, despite the recent trend to abandon such projects, analysts said. Some recent examples have shown this, they said. Some of municipal Wi-Fi services have flourished with the right business model. For example, after Philadelphia’s free municipal network seemingly failed when EarthLink backed out, local investors announced plans to take over the project.
On May 16, 2006, the Department of Transportation (DOT) issued its "National Strategy to Reduce Congestion on America's Transportation Network" which provides a blueprint for federal, state and local officials to follow as it works to tackle this growing problem.