I’m happy that this discussion (”The Sky is Falling” for independent film, which began in June at the LA Film Festival) is still going on many months later. The more we hash out all of the complicated intricacies of how the production and distribution of film is changing, the more we all benefit from greater […]

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The FCC ruled last month that Comcast is unlawfully interfering with its customers web traffic, specifically peer-to-peer file sharing. Electronic Frontier Foundation and The Associated Press did file sharing tests and noticed that they were being reset; the internet provider was in effect, blocking the file sharing, which violates the FCC’s 2005 policy statement to “enforce an open ‘Net, […]

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Free Press has a great news wrap-up email to give the headlines if you are interested in staying up on this kind of news. I’m not finding media artists who are fired up about these net neutrality issues, and I can’t understand why. It will absolutely will mean that people won’t be able to watch […]

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Back in December, Parul Desai of Media Access Project, wrote a great primer on the concept of net neutrality and why independent media artists should want to support a “free” internet. I’ve posted some news items here over the past year, though as companies like AT&T and Google face off, it feels a bit like […]

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There was a lot of news last week, so here is a quick round-up to direct you to some important articles you may have missed:
Via CNET, Gonzales: It’s time to punish ‘attempted’ piracy, “Urging the necessity of keeping the nation’s copyright laws ‘up to date,’ he pointed specifically to the Intellectual Property Protection Act of […]

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