gHacks technology news » net-neutrality http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 And so the Pirates win the day http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/21/and-so-the-pirates-win-the-day/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/21/and-so-the-pirates-win-the-day/#comments Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:14:12 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/21/and-so-the-pirates-win-the-day/ It began with the ban of the Russian website allofmp3 by the internet provider Perspektiv. The Piratebay decided to ban users of the provider from accessing their website as a response of the ban against allofmp3. Guess what, Perspektiv announced today that they lifted the ban of the Russian website and the Piratebay in turn decided to lift their ban as well.

According to the Pro Piracy Lobby website the provider experienced some heavy fire from disgruntled customers and privacy & free speech groups. It seems that the pressure on the provider was this intense that they decided to retract their decision and apologize to their customers.

Together with our new chairman of the board, the management agrees that limiting Internet access is not within the framework of our business, says Fredrik Winbladh, President of Perspektiv Bredband.

It is of great importance the we as a telecom and Internet operator, a so called common carrier, focus on delivering information. We can’t risk our position being questioned given the previous statement. The management and the company learned a lot from the debate that took place and we will use this experience to keep developing according to our vision of becoming the prime broadband choice of the Öresund region (Southern Sweden), says new Chairman Mikael Paulsson.

Two interesting statements. It seems that this episode clearly shows that companies will listen to their customers if only enough raise their voice.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/21/and-so-the-pirates-win-the-day/feed/ 1 Death of Net Neutrality the clear number 1 fear http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/21/death-of-net-neutrality-the-clear-number-1-fear/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/21/death-of-net-neutrality-the-clear-number-1-fear/#comments Fri, 21 Jul 2006 05:53:58 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/21/death-of-net-neutrality-the-clear-number-1-fear/ This poll results did not came unexpected: 41% of all voters stated that they feared the death of net neutrality the most, followed by trojans and virii (17%), spyware, hackers and nothing (10% each), phishing (5%), spam (4%) and finally Worms with 3%.

This is an overwhelming result and I thought I explain the net(work) neutrality concept for the ones who do not know what it is. Internet providers do one thing, they provide access to the internet and make sure that you receive all the data that you request. It does not matter if you surf to the website of a big company like eBay (amazon, Microsoft) or to my blog (hehe, or even smaller websites). All data get the same treatment, none is preferred over the other.

The providers (Verizon, AT&T, Time Warner, Comcast, and others) want to change the way the internet works. They want to decide which sites get a fast data transfer, which sites get a slow one and which get none. What this means is clear, the more you pay the faster you go. This also means that they cold favor their own services over the ones of their competition.

Take a look at this funny video of the daily show.

Take a look at the save the internet website if you are living in the USA and want to help fight this.

The new poll wants to know about your main activity on the internet: Communicating (like icq, chats, forums), Content (creating websites, animations), downloading (Linux distributions, freeware), Gaming (online gaming, casinos, poker), Research (university, work, school) or Shopping.

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