Category Archives: Internet
Thoughts: Ownership of Public Clouds
I’ve recently been chewing through BlueMountainLab’s podcasts on Cloud Computing. I’ll be honest – I’m a skeptic when it comes to cloud computing, but I’m developing a better understanding of it after listening to ‘casts on this topic for about … Continue reading
Thoughts: Deep Packet Inspection and Copyright Protection
In Lessig’s most recent book, Remix, he avoids directly endorsing any particular method of alleviating the issues with copyright infringement. Rather, he notes that there are models that have been proposed to alter how monies are collected for copyright holders. … Continue reading
Comment: Virgin Takes Aim At BitTorrent
In the US, Comcast is presently using what is referred to as ‘protocol agnostic’ filtering‘ – effectively, if you use the full amount of bandwidth that you are paying for for more than a few minutes, they decrease your available … Continue reading
Internet: Drowning in the Bits of UDP
Over the past few months I’ve been watching news that is emerging from think tanks, independent researchers, and news analysts about the ‘dramatic’ increases in bandwidth usage in North America. In this post I’d like to pull together a host … Continue reading
