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Universities Listening To Talks Of Blanket Music Licensing At The ISP Level

Warner Music Group's Jim Griffen, who has been a vocal proponent of blanket music licensing at the ISP level, is out pitching the idea to some of America's top universities.

Legal P2P Might Be Coming To The UK

 The UK may have legal music via P2P licensed at the broadband ISP level by the end of the year, according to the Register. The British government apparently pushed for talks between ISP's and the music industry as a preferred solution to legislation.

Controversial Ad Network Caught Editing Wikipedia

Phorm has been beset by controversy for years over its business model and quietly-run trials on British Telecom's (BT) broadband service.

Australia Plans Net Filters Amid Censorship Cries

Australian government denies mandatory censorship of pornography and violence equates what China does in terms of blocking web content.

Google Frowns On Rogers Injection

Rogers Internet in Canada provides its subscribers with an advisory when they are approaching their account's bandwidth limits, by injecting that notice into a web page they are viewing.

ISP Hijacks Google Homepage

Controversy is brewing over a Canadian ISP inserting customer messages at the top Google's homepage, brought to you by Yahoo.

SAFE Act Passage Panic Overblown

The Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online Act looks scary on a privacy level at first, but is not as fearsome as it appears.

EFF Strikes Back Against ISP Interference

The Electronic Frontier Foundation stepped up its criticism of traffic shaping practices by Comcast and others with a new initiative aimed at broadband customers.

Dial-Up Users Happier Than Broadband Users

High-speed Internet service continues to attract new subscribers, but satisfaction measurement for high-speed customers indicates that service providers are not making significant progress in producing loyal customers, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2007 Internet Service Provider Residential (ISP) customer Satisfaction study out today.

Feds Can't Have ISP Records

A federal judge said no to part to the Democrat green-lighted new version of the Patriot Act yesterday. The Feds will have to get permission from the court before they can order ISPs to turn over customer records without telling the customer. I invoked him yesterday, and I'm invoking him again today, Nelson Muntz joins all of us as we point at the DOJ and the FBI and give a collective "Ha ha!"