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Friday, April 18, 2008

Shape your own hole

Bell admitted this week to "data shaping" not only of data sent over its own networks, but also the data going over the networks that buy bandwidth from them to sell to their own customers. What does that mean for you? It means the battle is escalating on the Canadian front between supporters of net neutrality and internet service providers who want to be able to (and have already started to) prioritize certain content that goes over their networks over others. If you haven't been introduced, you should meet your new friend Michael Geist.

Enjoy downloading the hottest sonatas and episodes of How I Met Your Mother over P2P networks? (Uh...) Itchy in your flannel internet suit at the thought of "premium content" controls by ISPs and *ahem* shapely bandwidth? So are Leslie Hall and some her friends on the interweb at wearetheweb.org.

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posted by Christopher at 1:24 p.m.

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