Copyright Office Critiques Set-Top Box Order
Copyright Office sets the FCC straight on the nature of copyright law and fair use; piracy lobby objects loudly but wrongly.
What Makes AI Work?
Pokémon GO hit peak optimism today as Nintendo stock dropped 17% on the realization that the company doesn’t actually control the game. Nintendo has a share: about 32% of the Pokémon…
Clinton and Trump Campaign Technologies
Since the Republican National Convention is underway as I write this – compelling entertainment – it’s appropriate to take a look at the ways the candidates will use technology in…
Net Neutrality Heats up in Europe
The net neutrality debate isn’t quite over in the US, as we learned today from the pushback from true believers against T-Mobile’s offer of uncapped data for a year to Pokémon GO…
Akamai State of the Internet: Q1 2016
Every quarter, Akamai releases an update to its State of the Internet report that tends to show the continuation of several established trends: Average Internet speeds go up about 10%…
Live Streaming the House Sit-in
The Democratic Party sit-in at the House yesterday had an interesting technology component: the emergence of smartphone live streaming as a political instrument. The 60s-style demonstration took place after the…
My Privacy Taxonomy
The FCC’s Privacy NPRM would gain a lot of clarity by discarding its scattershot approach in favor of a framework defined by meaningful technical distinctions. For purposes of consistency, we can…
Fact-Checking Commissioner Statements on Privacy NPRM
In the process of writing comments for the FCC’s privacy NPRM (Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services, WC Docket No. 16-106) I made the mistake…
Privacy and the Internet: What the FCC Doesn’t Get
If you want to get totally confused about the nature of the Internet, you can’t do any better than to listen to and believe FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s remarks in…
What’s Happening with the Technology Business?
Comcast is putting itself in the spotlight again with some dramatic moves in three areas: broadband subscriptions, wireless networks, and creative content. It’s worthwhile to look at these things because…