Outlines feat. RZA - Now That I’m Free
August 27th, 2008 by Niels Christian
Tags: Music, Outlines
Netregulering - netneutrality
August 25th, 2008 by Niels Christian
It- og telestyrelsen finder det nu relevant at få diskuteret netneutralitet eller netregulering. De afholder konference den 30 september. Det er stadig muligt at tilmelde sig dags dato.
Berlingske Bussiness’ Mads Allingstrup skriver om fænomenet, hvor han også indhenter kommentarer fra DR og TV 2.
Prismodellen, hvor kapitalstærke vil kunne købe sig til sikker distribution til forbrugeren, vil sikkert ikke gavne forbrugerne:
- de skal vælge mellem internetadgangsprodukter, der giver bedre adgang til visse dele af internettet. Hvem vil forbrugeren vælge som internetudbyder?
- man skaber differentierede produkter og mindsker dermed konkurrencen på markedet for internetadgang.
- vil et kapitalinternet fremfor et demokratisk internet skade innovationsevnen på internettjenester?
Mediemagasinet SAMS har skrevet om netneutralitetsdebatten i USA (undertegnede er forfatteren), se også referencer til netneutralitet her på siden.
Tags: internet, it- og telestyrelsen, netneutralitet, netneutrality, netregulering, SAMS
Open or dead: NRKbeta and the use of Bittorrent and CC
August 16th, 2008 by Niels Christian
User responses:
“Heia NRK!”
“Lasta ner på 4 minutter! og superkvalitet! Tak NRK - detta er kult”
“Note to BBC: This is how it should be done”
NRK, Norways PSB, on how to use the web (in norwegian):
Tags: Bittorrent, CC, Creative Commons, NRK, web2.0
Assessment of the theoretical limits of copper in the last mile
August 16th, 2008 by Niels Christian
Ofcom has made the theoretical assessment: 50 MB/s.
(just stumbled upon)
Tags: copper, digital divide, fiber, last mile, Ofcom
Open Source and CC in legal victory
August 16th, 2008 by Niels Christian
A US appeal court acknowledges the copyrigths of open source’s: ’some rights reserved’.
BBC has the story Legal milestone for open source:
“Open source licensing has become a widely used method of creative collaboration that serves to advance the arts and sciences in a manner and at a pace few could have imagined just a few decades ago,” Judge White said. (…)
The ruling has implications for the Creative Commons licence which offers ways for work to go into the public domain and still be protected. (…)
“This opinion demonstrates a strong understanding of a basic economic principle of the internet; that even though money doesn’t change hands, attribution is a valuable economic right in the information economy.”
Creative Commons on wikipedia.
Creative Commons applicability
In 2005 Intrallect and the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in IP and IT Law conducted a study into how Creative Commons licences, or their equivalent, might be deployed at project, service or institutional level by organisations within the Common Information Environment. Excerpt:
“The study examined Creative Commons licences in detail but also surveyed alternative licences in use in the UK and around the world to consider the basis for their conditions of use. Among the licences considered were Click-Use (used by some public sector organisations), Creative Archive (produced by the BBC, Channel 4, The Open University and the British Film Institute), AEShareNET (used by the education sector in Australia), BC Commons (used by the education sector in British Columbia), and GNU (used by the Free Software Foundation).
There are many advantages to using Creative Commons including: ease of use; widespread adoption leading to familiarity; choices offering flexibility; human-readable, machine-readable and symbolic representations of the licences; sharing a common licence with many others; a direct link between the resource and its licence.”
Tags: CC, Creative Commons, licence, open source
www.mypage.anything
June 26th, 2008 by Niels Christian
To ask a question without answering is my business.
cnn.com writes that on Thursday is to be decided if any word can preced the webpage url, so instead of niels.com I can get an url like niels.christ. cnn.com writes that this has people foreseeing a huge auction frenzy, and not only on the adress .sex
Has this kind of controlling the internet spurred a motivation to deal and develope the internet to what it has become today? If at all: How, and with what influence?
Tags: ., cnn, domain, td, url
Firefox 3 out!
June 24th, 2008 by Niels Christian
Firefox 3 now as organic software!
Firefox 3 er udkommet, Anders fortalte mig om det, og desvaerre var jeg ikke med paa ‘downloadingsdagen’ :) , men downloader den nye version snarest.
Pt er FDIM-statistikken af Firefox 3 paa 0,243 procent, ikke vaesentlig meget, men sikkert paa vej op.
Yes, back in DK
June 14th, 2008 by Niels Christian
After ten months in the new world it is back to the old: stinkende roed spegepoelse, varme hunde med remoulade, leverpostej, lakrids (especially piratos). Og solskin, fedt!
Currently I’m at Aarhus University, Teaching Assistent Webcommunication, and making plans for my thesis, which is to be done this fall.
Subject:
Internet and Public Service. In need of a new ps-definition for a better society.
Very much in the initial phase…
Tags: what im doing right now
Pandora and Internet Radio
May 14th, 2008 by Niels Christian
According to the mail that is floating the internet these days from Pandora founder Tim Westergren Internet Radio is on the edge of dying. In the mail he recommend “support[ing] the Brownback Internet Radio Equality amendment that will be considered in the Judiciary Committee this Thursday [tomorrow?].
This amendment sets webcasting royalties at the same level as those paid by satellite radio, which would compensate musicians fairly and allow web radio to survive. For more info on the bill, please visit: www.savenetradio.org
Today the situation is another in the American legal system:
“FACT: The smallest medium – Internet radio – pays the most royalties; and under the new CRB royalty scheme the smallest webcasters will pay the highest relative royalties in amounts shockingly disproportionate to their revenue.
- Broadcast radio, an industry with $20 billion in annual revenue, is exempt and pays no performance royalties to record companies or recording artists.
- Satellite radio, which has approximately $2 billion in annual revenue pays between 3 and 7% of revenue in sound recording performance royalties.
- The six largest Internet-only radio services anticipate combined revenue of only $37.5 million in 2006, but will pay a whopping 47% (or $17.6 million) in sound recording performance royalties under the new CRB ruling. In 2008 combined revenues will total only $73.6 million, but royalties will be 58% or $42.4 million.
- Small Internet radio services are essentially bankrupted by the CRB ruling, with most anticipating royalty obligations equaling or exceeding total revenue.”
Tags: internet, media law, pandora, radio
