dcinput daily for Sat 18th March, 2006
More chatter of net neutrality as the topic makes the shortlist of memeorandum. The original group of companies backing the idea included Amazon.com, the American Association of Libraries, EarthLink, eBay, Google, Match.com, Microsoft, Skype, TiVo and Yahoo. New to join are American Association of Retired Persons Adobe Systems, BT America, the Digital Media Association, Sony Electronics and the Business Software Alliance.
Anne Broach: “Executives at Verizon Communications, BellSouth and the now-merged AT&T and SBC Communications have recently talked about the desirability of such a two-tiered Internet in which they could choose to favor some services–especially video–over others.”
I haven’t seen any big film distribution companies comment on net netrality yet. That would be interesting. If digital cinema is to happen, getting the films onto the millions of digital screens around the world is going to take a serious amount of bandwidth whether its over the internet or via satellite. They are going to need very fast pipes that are highly secure and 100% reliable. Having to delay the release of the next big block buster because it hasn’t downloaded to some of the cinemas really won’t cut the mustard. Sohonet is another company I’d like to hear a comment from.
More net neutrality articles on IP Democracy, TechDirt and by Mark Evans.
I’m off to find out how unfit I am by playing in a charity football match. Oh boy.