http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings by Derek Slater Mon, 18 May 2009 05:28:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In Bucharest, neighborhoods formed their own networks in order to bypass incumbents and meet their own needs. Later, these networks transformed into small businesses. My understanding is that the state of affairs is a bit different now, but these networks were quite normal 5 years ago. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2009/05/17/homes-with-very-messy-tails/ Not quite the same as what Tim Wu and I proposed. But this is  a neat demonstration of why ownership is attractive to consumers, and could be attractive to carriers. "In addition to entering an area with tremendous support already lined up, Lyse also does something innovative: it allows prospective customers ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2009/05/17/homes-with-incredibly-short-tails/ I'll be speaking on Homes with Tails, or Measurement Lab, or something else. In any case, I'll be there, and you should too. F2C: Who, What, When, Where, Why http://www.freedom-to-connect.net WHO: F2C is a meeting of people engaged with Internet connectivity and all that it enables, including     * vendors,     * customers,     * regulators,    ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2009/02/24/freedom-to-connect-2009-the-emerging-internet-economy/ (Cross-posted from Official Google Blog) Posted by Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, and Stephen Stuart, Principal Engineer When an Internet application doesn't work as expected or your connection seems flaky, how can you tell whether there is a problem caused by your broadband ISP, the application, your PC, or something else? It ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2009/01/28/introducing-measurement-lab/ Download the full paper here. Homes With Tails: What if You Could Own Your Internet Connection? by Derek Slater and Tim Wu America’s communications infrastructure is stuck at a copper wall. For the vast majority of homes, copper wires remain the principal means of getting broadband services. The deployment of fiber optic connections to ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2008/11/20/homes-with-tails-the-paper/ Tim Wu and I are going to be presenting our forthcoming paper about customer-owned last-mile broadband connections --  "Homes With Tails" -- next Friday at the New America Foundation. For more on the concept, see my previous post. We'll post the v1.0 of the paper early next week. If you'd like to come ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2008/11/12/homes-with-tails-the-presentation-next-friday/ Just not here so much. More here. Here's the latest: What if you could own your internet connection? It may sound strange, and it's certainly not what we're used to. Today we have a "carrier-centered" model; phone and cable companies spend billions to build, operate, ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2008/07/23/blogging-again/ This is a huge turning point. Jim Griffin has been telling everyone to "monetize the anarchy" for essentially the entire decade. This solution was on the table dating back to Napster. The idea has long percolated within the entertainment & tech community (read: the pholist). Many, many others contributed to its ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2008/03/27/warner-music-hires-jim-griffin/ December 2007: Copyright for Canadians Feb. 13, 2008, Google Public Policy blog: "Here in Canada, where there is an ongoing debate about how to best implement the WIPO Copyright Treaty, Google has joined with a number of other Canadian and international companies who have a shared vision of balanced copyright. The ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2008/02/14/the-copyfightca/ Today, Rep. Ed Markey and Chip Pickering introduced bipartisan legislation to help preserve Internet freedom and explicitly make "net neutrality" a guiding principle of U.S. broadband policy. The bill would affirm that the Internet should remain an open platform for innovation, competition, and social discourse, free from unreasonable discriminatory practices ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2008/02/13/rep-markeys-new-net-neutrality-legislation/ (Extended cross-post from Google Public Policy Blog) Broadband deployment in the U.S. is at best disappointing and at worst a crisis. The United States lags behind other countries in broadband uptake per capita, ranked 15th in the latest Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD) data. While consumers in Sweden and ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2008/01/30/towards-a-bigger-better-broadband-future/ If code is law and architecture is policy, then a Summer of Policy is a natural complement to Google's Summer of Code. That's exactly what Google announced yesterday -- a new Policy Fellowship program offering $7,000 stipends for undergraduate and graduate students to dive deep into the tech policy ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2007/11/13/google-policy-fellowships-a-dream-come-true/ If you haven't already read Sonia Katyal's "Privacy v. Piracy" and "The New Surveillance," you should. The articles have proven quite prescient -- with the Sony DRM rootkit and AT&T's announcement about forthcoming ISP-level filtering, the notion of "piracy surveillance" has become increasingly relevant. She recently sent me a new article, ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2007/11/11/katyals-semiotic-disobedience/ For those still tuning in, writing is likely to stay sporadic for a bit as I'm changing jobs. I'm starting a new gig as a Policy Analyst on Google's public policy team, which means you may see me here from time to time. Google is at the center of the ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2007/09/22/a-programming-note/ Tired of paying several dollars to buy ringtone versions of music you already own? When it comes to songs ripped from your CD collection or downloaded MP3s, widely-available software tools allow you to roll your own ringtones instead and put them on a variety of phones. But what the world ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2007/09/10/itunes-ringtones-making-you-pay-again-for-music-you-already-own/