An article in today’s Journal paints a bleak outlook for net neutrality.
Separately, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have withdrawn quietly from a coalition formed two years ago to protect network neutrality. Each company has forged partnerships with the phone and cable companies. In addition, prominent Internet scholars, some of whom have advised President-elect Barack Obama [...]

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I noticed on Lifehacker today that Netflix is now streaming to TiVo, and while I wasn’t watching, they also added Watch It Now for Macs (the option was only available to PC users for a long while). From their website:
Instantly watch movies (some new releases) & TV episodes (including current season) from over 12,000 choices [...]

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I’m happy that this discussion (“The Sky is Falling” for independent film, which began in June at the LA Film Festival) is still going on many months later. The more we hash out all of the complicated intricacies of how the production and distribution of film is changing, the more we all benefit from greater [...]

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The FCC ruled last month that Comcast is unlawfully interfering with its customers web traffic, specifically peer-to-peer file sharing. Electronic Frontier Foundation and The Associated Press did file sharing tests and noticed that they were being reset; the internet provider was in effect, blocking the file sharing, which violates the FCC’s 2005 policy statement to “enforce an open ‘Net, [...]

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Free Press has a great news wrap-up email to give the headlines if you are interested in staying up on this kind of news. I’m not finding media artists who are fired up about these net neutrality issues, and I can’t understand why. It will absolutely will mean that people won’t be able to watch [...]

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Back in December, Parul Desai of Media Access Project, wrote a great primer on the concept of net neutrality and why independent media artists should want to support a “free” internet. I’ve posted some news items here over the past year, though as companies like AT&T and Google face off, it feels a bit like [...]

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There was a lot of news last week, so here is a quick round-up to direct you to some important articles you may have missed:
Via CNET, Gonzales: It’s time to punish ‘attempted’ piracy, “Urging the necessity of keeping the nation’s copyright laws ‘up to date,’ he pointed specifically to the Intellectual Property Protection Act of [...]

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More and more, the issue of “network neutrality” has come to the public’s attention. “Net neutrality” is really about discrimination by the phone and cable companies. That is, discrimination among internet users and content providers, but for our purposes, I’ll use independent artists and independent media as an example.
The Internet has become an [...]

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I posted this a while back, but I think it’s time to see it again. Do you know what the term net neutrality refers to, or why you should care? Watch this short video by Arin Crumley, co-creator of Four Eyed Monsters, on the issue.

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