February 28th, 2008 
Richard Bennett Check The Register for my write-up of the FCC hearing.
Testifying as an expert witness on bandwidth management at the FCC’s field hearing in snowy Cambridge this Monday was a heady experience. The hearing took place in a cramped corner of the Harvard Law School, a building that was already decorated with pickets, banners, and reporters [...]
February 26th, 2008 Richard Bennett Larry Lessig’s decision not to run for Congress against Jackie Speier proves one thing, at least: the man is not a total fool. I applaud him for not wasting the public’s time with a quixotic campaign. Speier will make a fine representative for the 12th dsitrict, stirring things up quite a bit in her own [...]
February 20th, 2008 Richard Bennett The Larry Lessig for Congress movement is gathering steam, and the Professor himself is showing all the signs of running:
Former colleague John Palfrey, of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, launched a “Draft Lessig for Congress” Facebook group, attracting more than 2,000 social networking Larry lovers, and others soon sprung for their own DraftLessig.org” [...]
February 20th, 2008 Richard Bennett Here’s your announcement on the FCC hearing in Boston this Monday.
11:00 a.m. Welcome/Opening Remarks
11:45 a.m. Technology Demonstration – Gilles BianRosa, Chief Executive Officer, Vuze, Inc.
12:00 p.m. Panel Discussion 1: Policy Perspectives
* Marvin Ammori, General Counsel, Free Press
* Yochai Benkler, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School [...]
February 19th, 2008 Richard Bennett Just for the fun of it, I’ve uploaded a copy of the King James Version of the Holy Bible to my Comcast web page, the one that you get for free with every Comcast Internet account. It’s for Robb Topolski and all the good people at the EFF.
PS: Actually should have been for the AP, [...]
February 19th, 2008 Richard Bennett Now here’s an earthshaking event:
MEXICO CITY — Fidel Castro stepped down Tuesday morning as the president of Cuba after a long illness, ending one of the longest tenures as one of the most all-powerful communist heads of state in the world, according to Granma, the official publication of the Cuban Communist Party.
This can’t bode well [...]
February 15th, 2008 Richard Bennett The infamous “Ernesto” announces new countermeasures to grab even more of Comcast’s residential network:
BitTorrent throttling is not a new phenomenon, ISPs have been doing it for years. When the first ISPs started to throttle BitTorrent traffic most BitTorrent clients introduced a countermeasure, namely, protocol header encryption. This was the beginning of an ongoing cat and [...]
February 14th, 2008 Richard Bennett Here are some of the jewels among the comments submitted to the FCC on Save the Internet’s hilariously silly petition opposing sensible network management practices.
Brett Glass, the operator of a wireless ISP in Wyoming, points out that Saving the Internet would put him out of business and his customers off the net.
Rob Atkinson of the [...]
February 12th, 2008 Richard Bennett My official comments on the FCC Comcast petitions are right here
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February 11th, 2008 Richard Bennett Peter Svensson, the AP reporter last seen carrying water for the EFF, has a new piece out on the bandwidth shortage:
Internet service providers and consumer advocates agree that some form of network management, also called “traffic shaping,” can be good for everybody. Not all Internet traffic has the same level of urgency. It makes sense [...]
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