Category Archives: Thoughts
Analyzing the Verizon-Google Net Neutrality Framework
In this post, I exclusively work through the principles suggested by Verizon-Google. In my probationary analysis, I will draw on existing American regulatory language and lessons that might be drawn from the Canadian experience surrounding network management. My overall feel of the document published by Verizon-Google is that, in many ways, it’s very conservative insofar as it adheres to dominant North American regulatory approaches. My key suggestion is that instead of rejecting the principles laid out in their entirety that we instead carefully consider each in turn. During my examination, I should identify what principles and/or their elements could be usefully taken up into a government-backed regulatory framework that recognizes the technical, social, and economic potentials of America’s broadband networks. Continue reading
Kinder DRM Still Undermines Digital Abundance
We live in an era of digital abundance, an era where we can genuinely rethink the underlying economics of information creation and dissemination as the cost of creation, storage, and dissemination infrastructures approach zero. Against fears that this … Continue reading
UK Copyright: Businesses > Citizens?
Last week Ofcom provided information about its proposed three-strike scheme for punishing those accused of copyright violation. This provision is baked into the DNA of the UK’s newly minted Digital Economy Act (DEA). Out of the information provided, … Continue reading
Forrester Needs to Rethink on Privacy
Forrester has come out with a report that, in Susana Schwartz’s summary, “suggests that more should be done to integrate data about [ISPs’] customers’ online behaviours to offline systems.” In effect, to assist ISPs monetize their networks th… Continue reading
