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Virtual Freedom: Net Neutrality and Free Speech in the Internet Age (Stanford Law Books)
Average Rating: 5.0
Price: $17.90
Author: Dawn Nunziato
Manufacturer: Stanford Law Books
ISBN13: 9780804763851
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Communications giants like Google, Comcast, and AT&T enjoy increasingly unchecked control over speech. As providers of broadband access and Internet search engines, they can control online expression. Their online content restrictions—from obstructing e-mail to censoring cablecasts—are considered legal because of recent changes in free speech law.
In this book, Dawn Nunziato criticizes recent changes in free speech law in which only the government need refrain from censoring speech, while companies are permitted to self-regulate. By enabling Internet providers to exercise control over content, the Supreme Court and the FCC have failed to protect the public's right to access a broad diversity of content. Nunziato argues that regulation is necessary to ensure the free flow of information and to render the First Amendment meaningful in the twenty-first century. This book offers an urgent call to action, recommending immediate steps to preserve our free speech rights online.
Rock The Net: Musicians For Network Neutrality
Price: $16.98
Artist: Various Artists
Manufacturer: Thirsty Ear
UPC: 700435718425
"Net Neutrality" is the principle that preserves an open internet. It's all about choice, freedom of expression and access to information. It's also how many of us discover new music. But if big telecommunications and cable companies have their way, you may only be able to hear what they want you to hear.
That's why net neutrality is so important to musicians, fans and the independent sector. Many of today's most talented artists are demonstrating their support of an open Internet where all users can access the lawful content of their choice without corporate interference. Future of Music Coalition and Thirsty Ear Recordings have brought 15 top-notch acts together for the "Rock The Net: Musicians for Net Neutrality" CD.
Wilco, Bright Eyes, They Might Be Giants, Portastatic, Aimee Mann, Guster, Matthew Shipp, Palomar, The Wrens, DJ Spooky, BC Camplight, David Bazan, David Miller, Free Form Funky Freqs The Classic Brown and blink.have all donated an original track to the compilation.
FMC's Rock The Net campaign was established to increase musicians awareness about the importance of net neutrality. Certain Telecommunications and Cable Companies would like to charge content providers higher fees for the faster loading of their sites, which could alter the way we access the web. The result would be an internet where those who couldn't afford to- or didn't want to- pay a toll would be stuck in the slow lane. This would be a tremendous blow to musicians, who depend on open internet for freedom of choice.
Net Neutrality or Net Neutering: Should Broadband Internet Services Be Regulated
Average Rating: 4.0
Price: $64.47
Manufacturer: Springer
The subject of this book – whether or not to extend traditional telecommunications regulation to high-speed or "broadband" access to the Internet – is perhaps the most important issue now facing the Federal Communications Commission. The issue is also very contentious, with influential economic interests as well as academics on both sides of the question. Content providers – Microsoft and Amazon, for instance – argue that broadband providers should be treated as common carriers, required to transmit all content in a nondiscriminatory way. The broadband providers – the telephone and cable companies – argue that no bottleneck monopoly exists to justify such regulation and that, if imposed, it would stifle development of the Internet.
This volume consists of recently updated papers that were originally presented at a June 2003 conference held by the Progress & Freedom Foundation. The authors are among the top researchers in the field of telecommunications research.
Thomas M. Lenard is Vice President for Research and Senior Fellow at the Progress & Freedom Foundation. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books and articles on electricity, antitrust, privacy, and other regulatory issues. Lenard received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin and his Ph.D. from Brown University.
Randolph J. May is Senior Fellow and Director of Communications Policy Studies at the Progress & Freedom Foundation. In addition to writing a regular column for Legal Times, he has published more than fifty articles and essays on a wide variety of topics ranging from communications to law to constitutional theory. May received his A.B. from Duke University and his J.D. from Duke Law School.
Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-Regulatory Solution
Price: $95.00
Author: Christopher T. Marsden
Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA
Net Neutrality is a very heated and contested policy principle regarding access for content providers to the Internet end-user, and potential discrimination in that access where the end-user’s ISP (or another ISP) blocks that access in part or whole. The suggestion has been that the problem can be resolved by either introducing greater competition, or closely policing conditions for vertically integrated service, such as VOIP. However, that is not the whole story, and ISPs, as a whole, have incentives to discriminate between content for matters such as network management of spam, to secure and maintain customer experience at current levels, and for economic benefit from new Quality of Service standards. This includes offering a ‘priority lane’ on the network for premium content types such as video and voice service. The author considers market developments and policy responses in Europe and the United States, draws conclusions and proposes regulatory recommendations.
Christopher T. Marsden is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Essex and the Director the University’s LLM in Information Technology, Media and E-commerce. He was the founding co-editor of the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy.
Net Neutrality is a very heated and contested policy principle regarding access for content providers to the Internet end-user, and potential discrimination in that access where the end-user’s ISP (or another ISP) blocks that access in part or whole. The suggestion has been that the problem can be resolved by either introducing greater competition, or closely policing conditions for vertically integrated service, such as VOIP. However, that is not the whole story, and ISPs, as a whole, have incentives to discriminate between content for matters such as network management of spam, to secure and maintain customer experience at current levels, and for economic benefit from new Quality of Service standards. This includes offering a ‘priority lane’ on the network for premium content types such as video and voice service. The author considers market developments and policy responses in Europe and the United States, draws conclusions and proposes regulatory recommendations.
The author considers market developments and policy responses in Europe and the United States, draws conclusions and proposes regulatory recommendations.
"Chris Marsden maneuvers through the hype articulated by Network Neutrality advocates and opponents. He offers a clear-headed analysis of the high stakes in this debate about the Internet's future, and fearlessly refutes the misinformation and misconceptions."—Professor Rob Freiden, Penn State University
Packet Sniffing: Deep Packet Inspection and Net Neutrality
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Author: Eve Griliches
Manufacturer: IDC
The greedy nature of many Internet-based applications and the over-subscription model of the Internet poses challenges to network operators and regulators as they strive to maintain Internet freedoms that subscribers have come to expect. At the heart of the contentious issues of Internet bandwidth traffic management and net neutrality is the technology of deep packet inspection (DPI).
"DPI will become more important to ISPs to manage online broadcasting and digital rights," states Lawrence Surtees, study co-author and vice president of communications research at IDC Canada Ltd. "At the same time, ISPs must use this technology judiciously and recognize that their role should not be to serve as content police."
Technical, Commercial and Regulatory Challenges of QoS: An Internet Service Model Perspective (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)
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Price: $56.97
Author: XiPeng Xiao
Manufacturer: Morgan Kaufmann
This book provides a comprehensive examination of Internet QoS theory, standards, vendor implementation and network deployment from the practitioner's point of view, including extensive discussion of related economic and regulatory issues. Written in a technology-light way so that a variety of professionals and researchers in the information and networking industries can easily grasp the material. Includes case studies based on real-world experiences from industry.
The author starts by discussing the economic, regulatory and technical challenges of the existing QoS model. Key coverage includes defining a clear business model for selling and buying QoS in relation to current and future direction of government regulation and QoS interoperability (or lack thereof) between carriers and networking devices. The author then demonstrates how to improve the current QoS model to create a clear selling point, less regulation uncertainty, and higher chance of deployment success. This includes discussion of QoS re-packaging to end-users; economic and regulatory benefits of the re-packaging; and the overall benefits of an improved technical approach. Finally, the author discusses the future evolution of QoS from an Internet philosophy perspective and lets the reader draw the conclusions.
This book is the first QoS book to provide in depth coverage on the commercial and regulatory aspects of QoS, in addition to the technical aspect. From that, readers can grasp the commercial and regulatory issues of QoS and their implications on the overall QoS business model. This book is also the first QoS book to provide case studies of real world QoS deployments, contributed by the people who did the actual deployments. From that, readers can grasp the practical issues of QoS in real world. This book is also the first QoS book to cover both wireline QoS and wireless QoS. Readers can grasp the QoS issues in the wireless world. The book was reviewed and endorsed by a long list of prominent industrial and academic figures.
* The only book to discuss QoS technology in relation to economic and regulatory issues
* Includes case studies based on real-world examples from industry practitioners.
* Provides unique insight into how to improve the current QoS model to create a clear selling point, less regulatory uncertainty, and higher chance of deployment success.
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