The Federal Communications Commission may have a problem: it may not have legislatively-mandated authority to regulate the specific methods Internet service providers employ to manage congestion on their networks.

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United States v. Beatty, 2009 WL 5220643 This is a child porn prosecution. Using Phex P2P software, an undercover investigator accessed the Gnutella network and conducted searches using search terms known to be used by child pornographers.

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Skype , a big proponent of open networks and net neutrality, in a filing today with the Federal Communications Commission argued that net neutrality was “about growing the broadband ecosystem and preserving a borderless, open Internet” and it would “promote investment, jobs and innovation.” The company said that it “welcomes the Commission’s focus …

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Student’s at St Paul’s and other colleges cannot be disciplined by Sydney University.

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More than a decade after the launch of Napster, the recording industry’s complicated legal relationship with Web-savvy music fans seems no closer to resolution.

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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should avoid adopting strict net neutrality rules that would limit broadband providers’ flexibly to “address” illegal online file sharing, the Recording Industry Association of America said in comments filed with the FCC on Thursday.

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Published: Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 5:55 p.m. A former longtime youth and recreational program director for the Venice YMCA has been arrested in Tennessee on charges of distributing child pornography.

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2. Prevent viruses and spyware: Install and use anti-virus / anti-spyware software.

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We began our Mobile Web Meets Internet of Things series yesterday with a look at barcode scanning .

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Between piracy and the Internet, Hollywood executives are anxiously pondering whether their industry is going the way of the music business.

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Prosper Marketplace, Lending Club and other peer-to-peer lending companies received encouraging news from a new Gartner study this week indicating that the peer-to-peer lending industry would grow to $5 billion worldwide during the next three years.

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APconnections, a leading supplier of plug-and-play bandwidth shaping products and the creator of the NetEqualizer, today announced they will be hosting a complimentary NetEqualizer Tech Seminar at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington.

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DRM:- Trust Microsoft to try to make money out of an oxymoron. Because that’s what putting DRM in the same sentence as P2P amounts to.

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Comcast has had its day in court over the issue of “network management.” News accounts suggest that the three-judge panel from the DC Court of Appeals was plenty skeptical that the FCC had the proper authority to sanction Comcast’s BitTorrent blocking in 2008 .

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A federal appeals court gave notice Friday it likely would reject the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to sanction Comcast for throttling peer-to-peer applications.

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