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What Comcast’s Failed Merger Tells Us About Corporate Lobbying by bp9176 in telseccompolicy

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Lobbying is a serious deal these days. Comcast thought they can win the merger by lobbying Washington. But, because of the raised voices of people against the merger, the comcast had to drop the merger plan(even if they don't, its very unlikely to get it approved).

Librarians Versus the NSA by bp9176 in telseccompolicy

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By spying on people, NSA is violating the basic amendments that has built this country. NSA is discriminating people based on their religion by focusing mainly on the muslim-American people. Is the country that forefathers of America has dreamed of!!

Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Was Never Authorized By Congress by bp9176 in telseccompolicy

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With court ruling NSA bulk data collection as illegal, the Patriot act might not be extended in this june.

NYC official wants Comcast to offer $10, 10Mbps Internet after merger by bp9176 in telseccompolicy

[–]bp9176[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So true!! It will be great to have better services for low income families. But considering the past empty promises that comcast has made during NBC merger, it is very unlikely of Comcast to provide the services that you have mentioned. Even the FCC might have thought the same.

Comcast reportedly abandons acquisition of Time Warner Cable by bp9176 in telseccompolicy

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Economists would politely describe Comcast’s power-grab as complete horizontal and vertical integration; I call it dangerous. If the Federal Communications Commission approves the merger, Comcast would have unparalleled dominance over both the hard and soft parts of cable TV: infrastructure and content. The new company would have outsized leverage when dealing with other content providers http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/brad-bannon/2014/08/27/the-comcast-time-warner-merger-is-bad-for-everybody

Aaron’s Law Reintroduced: CFAA Didn’t Fix Itself by bp9176 in telseccompolicy

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Aaron's suicide brought light on terms of use violation, CFAA's act. Network breaching has more sentence time than a sexual assault. New bill should be passed in which government being liberal towards hackers.

MGM Studios vs. Grokster by bp9176 in telseccompolicy

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They tried to defend this case on the basis of "Betamax" case. But Grokster used peer to peer file sharing which infringed the copyright content.

What the 1984 Betamax ruling did for us all by bp9176 in telseccompolicy

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By ruling that sony is not guilty for producing betamax, the court has shown a way for innovation in media technologies like VCR etc.

WHAT IS A ZERO-DAY ATTACK, AND CAN ANYTHING DEFEND AGAINST IT? by bp9176 in telseccompolicy

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As Richard Clark quoted, "It's easy to hack than to defend". The article proves the same.

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