I am pretty much in a full-time telecommuting work environment for my employer. It’s actually been a great experience for me, and I feel I am producing quality work output for my employer. All-in-all, I believe it to be a great arrangement for both myself and my employer. But all is not well i...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) , which seems totally incapable of understanding that the Internet has completely and irretrievably remade their business, has ended their campaign of suing impoverished college students for downloading mp3s. Since 2003 the RIAA has sued approxima...

The CRTC's net neutrality hearing submissions have generated several comments that link net neutrality with copyright.  As noted yesterday, CIRPA believes that content blocking of P2P sites should be considered.  Quebecor, which owns Videotron, a leading Quebec ISP, goes even further.&...

My inamorata works for a company that is, surprise surprise, experiencing economic difficulties. One area where they are hurting is web hosting. Their site is costing them about $600 a month, which is waaay out of line for their site: html with some Flash, nothing special, not even any video. It cha...

And so begins another fight over data retention. As Declan summarizes: Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep records...

Every now and then it’s interesting to ponder on how much we don’t know about things we take for granted and even more to consider how much we are really being kept in the dark. This evening my ears pricked up in the middle of the ABC television news when the head honcho of our major tel...

One man's downturn is another's business opportunity. (See, for example, Cash4Gold.com.) With everyone hit hard by the economy, Internet service provider NetZero has come up with an ingenious idea: We'll all downgrade from expensive broadband Web access and choose $9.95-a-month NetZero dial-up inste...

I can see you - well, your computer - naked. This statement is true when we are discussing the internet. Ordinary people would be amazed about much information can be retrieved from someone’s computer everytime that computer is connected to the net. The paranoids have said that this informatio...

The German government has decided to put a stop to ‘child porn’, and will start handing out blacklists to ISPs soon. The German family minister, Ursula von der Leyen said that they’re expecting technical implementation to go live this year. Though it’s easy to say that people will find a way...

In a move against child pornography, the ISPs in Germany will be asked by the officials to filter out the websites which are considered offensive. The officials are already working with the search engine giant Google along with other search engines. Last month Wikipedia was banned in the UK for disp...