Intellectual Property Law

Net neutrality in Canada and the U.K.

By Susan Crawford

And they said net neutrality was an American issue. Hah.

Robert Guerra has forwarded these links re Canada:

Keeping the net neutral

Net Neutrality Canada

Michael Geist commentary

CRTC To Face Net Neutrality Issue as CAIP Demands Bell Cease and Desist Its Throttling Practices

Robert lets us know that “the Canadian Association of Internet Providers, Canada’s largest ISP association, has filed a Part VII application with the CRTC [regulator] asking it to direct Bell Canada to cease and desist from throttling its wholesale Internet service.”

And Cory Doctorow is taking on Virgin Media, his London ISP.

Neil Berkett, the new CEO of Virgin Media (my ISP at home in London, along with BT) has announced that he considers Net Neutrality to be “a load of bollocks” and he’s promised to put any website or service that won’t pay Virgin a premium to reach its customers into the “Internet bus lane.” As a Virgin customer, I’m not paying to see those services that bribe Virgin to reach me, I’m paying to reach the entire web, whichever bits I think are useful, as quickly as Virgin can deliver them.

Full post as published by Susan Crawford Blog on April 15, 2008 (boomark / email).