Broadband, everything is dependent upon broadband to move to the next level of services, content, etc via the Internet. The single use most driving the expansion of broadband right now is P2P trading. So what do European ISPs want to do now? Limit usage – could they be more retarded? …

Today is the day for Poetry Against the War, which grew out of Laura Bush’s misguided cancellation of a White House poetry event that the poets were planning to turn into an anti-war event – better to have let the poets had their say, then refuted them than to give …

Woodstock PDS (personal digital server) offers a variation on the media player/file-sharing theme: The Woodstock PDSTM is the first software combining a full-feature media player with powerful Peer-to-Peer file lending ability. Users of the Woodstock PDSTM software can easily play digital music, convert their CD’s into MP3’s, or listen to …

Congress seeks to protect Americans from TIA while TIA seeks to protect Americans from terrorists: House and Senate negotiators have agreed that a Pentagon project intended to detect terrorists by monitoring Internet e-mail and commercial databases for health, financial and travel information cannot be used against Americans. The conferees also …

AOL and Road Runner are locked in a bitter struggle for broadband customers; one catch – they are both owned by AOL Time Warner: While America Online recently recorded its first ever drop in subscribers, Herndon-based Road Runner LLC posted a double-digit percentage increase. Road Runner says it provides one-stop …

John Ray is hosting the Carnival this week: I am pleased to be the Carnival host this week. A lot of work but interesting. Bigwig can put me down for another turn any time he likes. So here goes (in order of receipt): Photomatt has some great hints on how …

Bennett Lincoff, former Director of Legal Affairs for New Media at ASCAP, has a plan for the licensing and regulation of digital music file-sharing on the Internet: Practically no one is satisfied with the rules governing online use of copyrighted musical works and sound recordings. Rights holders believe that the …

Free speech laws are very different in Europe than in the US. They seek to root out hate speech, we protect it under the belief that it is more important to protect free speech for all than to suppress the hateful speech of the few. Theoretically, hate speech can be …

Arik Hesseldahl explains in Forbes why TV broadcast flags are a waste of time: Video recording is a convenience that consumers have grown accustomed to since the introduction of the first videocassette recorders in the 1970s. Many consider it an entitlement. To a point, it is. The U.S. Supreme Court, …

New category of media player from PRISMIQ: Watch movies, listen to music, chat with friends, browse the Web – all from your TV. We bring the networked entertainment home of tomorrow to you today. Using your Internet-connected home computer, the PRISMIQ system can: • Play DVD-quality (MPEG2 and MPEG1) video …