Is Your Internet Provider Net Neutral ?

Does your internet provider throttle traffic to and from legitimate sites because of favoritism ? Are they trying to steer you to specific sites by slowing down connections to and from those other sites ?

Internet providers are supposed to be neutral. But of course how does someone find out when they aren’t ? They certainly wont admit to doing it and no technology exists to analyze their transfers. Right ?

Well, researcher Dan Kaminsky has been working on a program called N00ter to do this.

Basically it times transfers to and from sites using different methods and compares the resulting information to find throttling.

Additional information on this new program can be found on Forbes.

August 6th, 2011 Comments Off on Is Your Internet Provider Net Neutral ? Canadian Law, Consumer Information, Music Technology Rob McIntyre

4G Deals Near The Border ?

AllthingsD reported that the Canadian and American government has struck a deal to share the 700 MHz band along the border. This may result in 4G wireless broadband service deals for communities along the border after the implementation of digital television in Canada on September 1st.

August 5th, 2011 Comments Off on 4G Deals Near The Border ? Canadian Law, Consumer Information, Music Technology Rob McIntyre

August 4th, 2011 Comments Off on Canadian Gov. Publishes Anti-Spam Site Canadian Law, Consumer Information Rob McIntyre

United Kingdom To Introduce Private Copying

According to this document, it appears that the United Kingdom will introduce private copying legislation shortly, without the levies we’ve had here in Canada since the late 90’s.

Details on what they’re considering can be found on pages 7 and 8.

August 3rd, 2011 Comments Off on United Kingdom To Introduce Private Copying Consumer Information, Music Industry, Music Technology Rob McIntyre

Walmart’s Online Movie Rental Service

Walmart has decided to offer online movie rentals in the states, via the Vudu service they had purchased in March 2010.

There is no news in regards to a Canadian service yet.

July 26th, 2011 Comments Off on Walmart’s Online Movie Rental Service Consumer Information, Music Technology Rob McIntyre

Shaw Discusses Video Service

It appears that Shaw customer will not be able to rent films online from this company’s Movie Club service without it counting against their monthly allotment of data unless they rent this content via their set top box.

The video on demand service, which is currently available in Standard Definition, costs $12 per month and a high definition service will be made available shortly, for $5 more per month according to this press release.

Netflix users have been complaining that the cable companies are imposing limitations on this popular service, giving their own movie rental services a competitive advantage by removing or reducing their own service’s impact to their customer’s allocated monthly transfers.

July 16th, 2011 Comments Off on Shaw Discusses Video Service Consumer Information, Music Technology Rob McIntyre