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Youtube on lawsuit win: “Important victory” for billions of people
by Matthew L. Schafer Just over three years after Viacom International filed a complaint against Youtube, Inc. for allegedly infringing on Viacom’s copyrighted material, Youtube was handed a victory...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation Says Illegal Download Charges Are “Predatory”
by Matthew L. Schafer (Update: 6/30/2010: According to a press release from the EFF, “Judge Collyer ordered the plaintiffs, TWC and amici to work together to draft a notice that could be sent to...
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Five Sentences from Google/Verizon that Could Change the Net Forever
by Matthew L. Schafer With the release of a policy proposal on Monday, Google and Verizon confirmed speculation and early reports by The New York Times and Bloomberg that the two companies had come to...
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How the Internet “Kill Switch” Bill Became the Bulwark of Internet Independence
by Matthew L. Schafer Last June, speculation began to build that a new cybersecurity bill floated by Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Tom Carper (D-DE) gave President Obama the...
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Our Stamp Act: AT&T Broadband Caps and Online Democracy
by Matthew L. Schafer This week, two public interest groups wrote to the Federal Communications Commission to urge an investigation of AT&T’s broadband data caps that were first announced by the...
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