Gigi Sohn

The Orphan Works Bill: 'Wait Til Next Year!'

Stevie Converse — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:42:09 -0700

Dragging Spectrum Policy Out of 1929

Stevie Converse — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:14:17 -0700

Targeting Ads by Tracking Web Surfing Habits

Stevie Converse — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:06:05 -0700

Comcast Seeks Reversal of FCC on Internet Management

Stevie Converse — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:42:09 -0700

Public Knowledge Response to House Republican Leader Letter to the FCC

Stevie Converse — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:38:58 -0700

Court Says FCC Should Decide Net Neutrality Issues

Stevie Converse — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:04:15 -0700

A federal judge in California has suspended proceedings in a subscriber's lawsuit against Comcast while the Federal Communications Commission completes its investigation into whether the company violated net neutrality principles by slowing traffic to peer-to-peer sites.

ISP Backs Off of Behavioral Ad Plan

Stevie Converse — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:01:38 -0700

Charter Communications, one of the largest providers of cable-based broadband service in the U.S., has backed off of a plan to insert advertisements onto Web pages based on its users' Web-surfing habits after privacy advocates called the program an "attack on users."

Internet Provider Halts Plan to Track, Sell Users' Surfing Data

Stevie Converse — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:58:02 -0700

Charter Communications, the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, announced yesterday that it has backed off a plan to monitor customers' Internet transmissions.

The company had been planning to harvest the stream of data from each Internet customer for clues to their interests and then make money from advertisers who would use the information to target online pitches.

Public Knowledge Reaction to Charter Announcement it Will Halt NebuAd Test

Stevie Converse — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:10:21 -0700

Background: Charter Communications said this afternoon it will not now move forward with a pilot project involving NebuAd, a company that provides targeted advertising for Internet Service Providers (ISPs). A technical investigation by Public Knowledge and Free Press found that consumers are having their Web browsing intercepted and Web sites are having their computer code altered by NebuAd.

Markey Tells ISPs to Wait on Online-Ad-Service Technology

Stevie Converse — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:28:31 -0700

House Telecommunications & Internet Subcommittee chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) told cable operators and other broadband providers to hold off implementing ad-service technology similar to what Charter Communications was planning to use from online-ad network NebuAd.

That came after Charter officially pulled the plug, for now, on testing that service in four markets.

Comcast-BitTorrent, Wireless Net Neutrality Issues Stir Debate at Broadband Policy Summit

Stevie Converse — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:30:04 -0700

Critics and proponents of Network Neutrality squaring off on the topic on Friday agreed that recent actions by both cable and wireless providers had had re-vivified the debate about the topic.

New Study Shows FCC Needs to Act on Comcast Blocking

Stevie Converse — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:36:52 -0700

The Max Planck Institute has released a new survey of worldwide BitTorrent traffic finding that Comcast and Cox are the chief offenders for throttling traffic, and that they block at all hours of the day and night.

The study is here:
http://broadband.mpi-sws.mpg.de/transparency/results/

The following statement is attributed to Gigi B. Sohn, president and co-founder of Public Knowledge:

Public Knowledge Pleased with Introduction of Antitrust Net Neutrality Legislation

Stevie Converse — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:20:59 -0700

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) today introduced H.R. 5994, the “Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act of 2008.”

Lawmakers Introduce New Net Neutrality Bill

Stevie Converse — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:18:59 -0700

Two Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced a bill that would subject broadband providers to antitrust violations if they block or slow Internet traffic.

Skepticism, Support Emerge over Comcast-Pando News

Stevie Converse — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:54:51 -0700

Some advocacy groups are scoffing at Comcast Corp.’s announcement that it’s working with another file-sharing provider to create a “bill of rights.”

Comcast Loves File Sharing, Honest!

Stevie Converse — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:45:07 -0700

Was it really just a few months ago that Comcast was surreptitiously interfering with BitTorrent uploads?