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• Etc: No safe harbors for YouTube in Germany—a Hamburg court rules that the company must monitor and prevent uploads of Sarah Brightman (!) videos.

  <!--body--> No safe harbors for YouTube in Germany—a Hamburg court rules that the company must monitor and prevent uploads of Sarah Brightman (!) videos. Read More: AP Read the comments on this post

  September 3, 2010, 12:38 pm| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• Frustrated Nexus One owner sues Google over "sporadic" 3G speed

  

  <!--body--> Imagine that your name is Nathan Nabors and that you live in the sunny climes of Orlando, Florida. Imagine further that, back when Google announced its own Android phone and called it the Nexus One, you realized that your Orlando-based life would only be complete with the purchase of...

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  September 3, 2010, 9:27 am| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• We're trudging down the long road to universal 4Mbps broadband

  

  <!--body--> Judging by the Federal Communications Commission's latest survey, we're still pretty far away from the FCC's National Broadband Plan goal of 4Mbps Internet download speeds for everyone. The agency's newest statistics indicate that out of 71 million wireline household connections, less than half (44 percent) matched or exceeded that...

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  September 3, 2010, 6:15 am| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• White space broadband to be finalized (at last) this month

  

  <!--body--> "White spaces" broadband has been in hibernation—the rules governing unlicensed use in empty TV channels have never been finalized, and therefore no devices have yet appeared. This despite the fact that the idea was approved under previous FCC Chairman Kevin Martin in 2008. That's about to change at last....

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  September 2, 2010, 2:21 pm| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• Scammers using fake copyright infringement notices for profit

  

  <!--body--> HADOPI, meet the internautes. The French "high authority" that oversees the country's three strikes anti-P2P file-sharing campaign is now being used by spammers and scammers who attempt to trick people out of their cash by accusing them of copyright violations. The e-mails have appeared in recent days, purporting to...

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  September 2, 2010, 9:03 am| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• Etc: A juror was punished this week for posting updates about a court case to Facebook before the case was over. Pro tip: don't do that.

  <!--body--> A juror was punished this week for posting updates about a court case to Facebook before the case was over. Pro tip: don't do that. Read More: Associated Press Read the comments on this post

  September 2, 2010, 7:15 am| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• An ISP that knows nothing of "data hogs"

  

  <!--body--> Pop quiz—which US Internet service provider made the following statement about a network upgrade? During the construction of this network we have given a lot of thought... to the business model in the US, and how we could do things in a different and more interesting way. The natural...

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  September 2, 2010, 4:50 am| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• Feature: Thomas Edison's plot to hijack the movie industry

  

  <!--body--> It was a dark and stormy night on December 18, 1908. Okay—maybe it wasn't so dark and stormy. But it should have been, because that was the night Thomas Edison tried to hijack the motion picture industry. "With his beetle brows, long wispy hair, and beatific look, Edison might have...

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  September 1, 2010, 9:30 pm| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• Plan for nationwide free wireless broadband finally shot down

  

  <!--body--> For four years the Federal Communications Commission tossed the idea around like a beach ball: a coast-to-coast free wireless service across the low end of the 2GHz "AWS-3" band. The service would pay for itself via advertisements and by selling commercial access to various portions of the license area....

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  September 1, 2010, 6:10 pm| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

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