Well, here we are. The reason CISPA was getting all the attention was allegedly that it was coming to a vote first. Well, now Lieberman-Collins is next to a vote , as Democrats scramble to find a way to make cloture. Where’s the outrage? I’ll tell you where it is: non-existent, because CISPA opposition was solely designed to give cover for Lieberman-Collins. We do need the private sector to have more information, though. Internet attacks aren’t going away . Wireless data and innovation are threats and great drivers of competition . We need less regulation if we want competition. Smaller government. Telecommuncations Act, not Obama FCC. And so naturally we have Al Franken wanting Comcast to be targeted and the Germans wanting Verizon to be targeted . They just don’t get liberty. That’s why the radicals passed Net Neutrality, whose insanity is so well summed up like so: “Meaning the hospital downloading a dying patient’s MRI gets no more broadband speed than the guy next door downloading the panda sneezes video on YouTube.” The EU seems likely to block ACTA , in a victory for copyright infringers abroad. Speaking of infringers, Android was built on copyright infringement in the form of Google stomping all over Oracle’s Java copyrights. Yes, Android’s VM is the issue here. That’s why Oracle wants a billion dollars. This is a big deal.
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Tech at Night: Oracle wins Java infringement suit against Google, ACTA fails in the EU, CISPA opponents silent on Lieberman-Collins UNEXPECTEDLY!
So, LightSquared. It’s a funny turn this whole thing has taken. Way back at the start, when I was excited for LightSquared’s potential as a 4G competitor, I was told that they were the next Solyndra. Then, when the Obama administration and LightSquared both reacted badly to requests for oversight, I was convinced. Now, though, defenders on the right are cropping up again for LightSquared . I’ll say this: transparency in the FCC is worth fighting for, but a solution that leads LightSquared build a terrestrial 4G network is also worth finding. See if you can spot the problem: As AT&T warns that FCC meddling is raising prices , the FCC is off expanding wireless subsidies . Since 1992 when the modern, commercial Internet began , and 1996 when the bipartisan Telecommunications Act effectively deregulated the Internet, much has changed. Some think it’s in spite of that hands off law, apparently, so I’m skeptical of calls to rewrite the law , even if they are competition-minded. This call for a law that recognizes the competitive marketplace is reasonable in itself, but I fear that any re-opening of the Telecommunications act could go wrong where the original idea went so right. Also, new laws won’t matter if the FCC will just ignore them. The FCC’s jerking around Verizon, after all . The firm is having to speak up for itself since they’re changing deadlines, dragging it out, doing the bidding of the George Soros extremists. Note: all this regulatory nonsense has a cost: It’s harming our way forward in modern, innovative, high-speed communications. We need a functioning spectrum market. Retransmission: While the broadcaster outrage has been loud against Jim DeMint’s Senate effort to level the playing field between local broadcasters and cable companies, I have to give Joe Barton credit for picking up the issue in the House . I’ve been critical, but he doesn’t have a bad idea here, and I need to give credit. Cookie privacy’s the hot thing. So even as FCC gave Google only a slap on the wrist over the Street View scandal,
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Tech at Night: LightSquared debates, FCC subsidizing and raising prices, Seven figure fine for Google?
Having abandoned the seemingly-endless series of patent lawsuits in the new America Invents Act era, Tech at Night will be quick tonight. Google allegedly knew about the Wi-Spy Street View snooping for two years before ending it. Oops. No wonder FCC claims Google obstructed government investigations into the program. Gotta love the Media Marxists: FCC ventures into campaign finance chilling effects regulation , and they claim it doesn’t go too far enough! Further, when Net Neutrality regulations force Hulu to adopt new business models , they also flip out. Never mind it’s their fault Hulu can’t simply make deals with firms like Comcast. And finally, the Barack Obama/George Soros-led attempts to use CISPA as a distraction from Lieberman-Collins are not entirely successful, as some like Microsoft refuse to be bullied from their pro-CISPA positions .
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Tech at Night: Damaging new claim about Google Wi-Spy, Media Marxists in full outrage mode
CISPA is still a harmless bill devoid of new mandates of power grabs, but I’m actually short of new things to say about it this week. Lieberman-Collins is the real threat. Watch the other hand. Let’s start with some spectrum instead. Verizon is under fire for trying to buy spectrum from Comcast and other cable companies, even as it tries to sell other spectrum . Note though that observers are saying T-Mobile, recently held up as a competitor who must be propped up by government action, stands to benefit in the marketplace by Verizon’s actions. Sprint, however, is put under pressure to to continued mismanagement and lack of funds to invest in its network. Why would Verizon buy and sell its spectrum is all over the place , and consolidation allows for less demanding hardware requirements for its phones, which benefits Verizon’s customers. That’s good thinking, and that kind of market innovation should be rewarded, not regulated out of existence. Look: it’s well and good to try to find a treasure trove of unused spectrum as Mark Warner wants, but hope is not a substitute for making more efficient use of what we already know about. Though while Warner is optimistic, the NAB is insane . I mean, seriously? Did they miss where Verizon is also buying spectrum, so that it’ll have a net gain? Or that Verizon needs to look to the future, unlike various American broadcasters, who are doing the same old thing, and gradually losing out to new technologies? Jealous much of the Internet, NAB? Speaking of Sprint, New York is accusing the firm of seven years of tax fraud . If true, it just makes the firm’s failure to compete even more baffling, and FCC’s desperate measures to prop them up even dumber. Don’t copy that floppy! BSA to focus on “anti-piracy” . I imagine lots of lobbying will be involved, though. Perhaps even of Obama’s copyright chief . Anontards butthurt that their cheating did not go unpunished by Time . Let’s not pretend they didn’t try to rig it first, before Time un-rigged it. That’s what they do. The have a history of this at Anonymous. As FCC gradually gives in to Chuck Grassley on transparency and LightSquared, it turns out that some people want him to give up . Just what are they worried he’s going to find if he keeps up the pressure? PATENT WARS: HTC denies Apple’s accusations , even as Samsung continues to fight back, hard . I guess part of being on top is being in court: Apple under fire for a ‘no poaching’ antitrust accusation , along with Google and more.
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Tech at Night: Verizon innovates in Spectrum, Sprint accused of tax fraud, Chuck Grassley pressured to give up on transparency
How harmless is CISPA? Despite irrational attacks by association , because we’re apparently supposed to think Republican bills bad, even though the Democrats in the Senate had kept PROTECT IP alive months before Lamar Smith brought SOPA to committee, CISPA has already has been modified to remove mention of copyright infringement. And yet the rage continues. I figured it out, though. The reason CISPA, a previously unknown bill, is under attack is to give cover for the Lieberman-Collins cybersecurity bill, the one that had the Internet Kill Switch in it. If the leftys are all a-twitter about Republicans, then nobody but us conservatives will pay attention to the power grab in the Democrat-controlled Senate being pushed by the Obama administration including DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano. CISPA is not a threat. It looks like CISPA is a red herring. This is a personal message from me to Netflix: If you’re going to whine about Net Neutrality , then you need to be neutral yourself and not used proprietary technologies like Silverlight. As long as you do that, you have no moral authority to speak. So take a hike. Signed, an ex-Netflix user and current Comcast user who wants you to leave me alone. Google accuses Facebook of threatening freedom . The pot calls the kettle very, very black. Because this is the same Google that impeded investigation of the Streetview snooping scandal , and is being fined $25,000 by the FCC.
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Tech at Night: CISPA is a distraction from Lieberman-Collins
