07-21-08
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[Ars] FCC hearing: disagreement over the "broadband of tomorrow"
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The broadband of tomorrow... and the networks of today
The hearing was designed to talk about the "broadband of tomorrow," but what was striking was the level of agreement on certain key points. Apart from AT&T's contention that building out network capacity to meet ongoing demand was not physically possible (translation: "we need to throttle like the Boston Strangler!"), most panelists seemed united in a negative assessment of closed networks (cell phones), closed set-top boxes, NebuAd (CMU professor emeritus David Farber called such systems "almost obscene"), and ISP filtering.
Take the question of ISP filtering for copyrighted works. A representative from YouTube, David Eun, gave a nice description of why filtering "copyrighted material" is hard. For one thing, nearly all created content in the US is copyrighted, even dancing-dog video clips. That means the problem to be solved is not stopping the flow of "copyrighted content" online, but finding out what rights each uploader has for each bit of content. This is a tough problem, one not easily solved by simply looking at a file as it passes across a network.
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[Ars] FCC hearing: disagreement over the "broadband of tomorrow"
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