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The Telecom Digest for July 2, 2014
Volume 33 : Issue 117 : "text" Format
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:46:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: In Aereo's wake, Fox targets Dish's TV streaming service
Message-ID: <dd6339fa-67f5-4ed7-a9ab-863cc8194646@googlegroups.com>
On Sunday, June 29, 2014 6:47:56 PM UTC-5, Monty Solomon wrote:
> In Aereo's wake, Fox targets Dish's TV streaming service.
> Broadcaster says Supreme Court ruling killing Aereo also
> dismantles Dish Hopper.
Here's FierceCable's version of the same story:
http://www.fiercecable.com/story/so-it-begins-fox-using-aereo-precedent-battle-against-dish/2014-06-30?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
-or-
http://tinyurl.com/nfgdsc7
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:54:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Aereo temporarily halts operations
Message-ID: <22a089b2-1f40-44ca-afb2-a08a5214efa4@googlegroups.com>
By Samantha Bookman, FierceOnlineVideo, June 28, 2014
Over-the-air streaming provider Aereo halted its operations
Saturday morning in a move that founder and CEO Chet Kanojia said
is only temporary.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled against Aereo in a case
brought by several broadcasters, including ABC. The high court
cited the 1976 Copyright Act in determining that Aereo violated
broadcast copyrights by streaming signals from its antenna-DVR
cloud facilities to subscribers who rent the equipment for $8 to
$12 per month.
"As a result of that decision, our case has been returned to the
lower Court. We have decided to pause our operations temporarily
as we consult with the court and map out our next steps," Kanojia
said in a letter emailed to its subscribers Saturday morning and
posted on the provider's website. "You will be able to access
your cloud-based antenna and DVR only until 11:30 a.m. ET today.
All of our users will be refunded their last paid month."
Continued:
http://www.fierceonlinevideo.com/story/aereo-temporarily-halts-operations/2014-06-28
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http://tinyurl.com/qewqfhg
Neal McLain
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 13:04:12 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Massachusetts high court orders suspect to decrypt his computers
Message-ID: <loupmd$d8k$1@dont-email.me>
On 6/29/2014 7:47 PM, Monty Solomon wrote:
>
> Massachusetts' top court ruled, in a 5-2 decision on Wednesday, that
> a criminal suspect can be ordered to decrypt his seized computer.
Cryptography, like all technologies that provide a competitive advantage
during wars - "shooting" or economic - is an arms race. Up until
now, the NSA has managed to bypass those few algorithms they are unable
to break, either by Gerrymandering the standards or making deals
with crypto providers to betray their customers.
However, now we come to the end-point of the arms race; the
nuclear artillery of the government's arsenal. After Snowden, those
with serious secrets to hide, either on behalf of "the good guys" or
for less politically-correct purposes, are on notice that
"Security by obscurity", closed-source encryption is useless.
Ergo, those with important secrets to safeguard - be they the
stationmasters on the underground railroads whom protect refugees
fleeing the CIA's wars, or the wretched voyeurs trying
desperately to reclaim a shred of the innocence lost during their
youth - have upped the ante by obtaining and using robust crypto.
As a result, the ruling class of a once-proud country is now
flying a trial balloon that is able to destroy our rights with a
mere shadow: the threat of "Rubber Hose Cryptography" being used
by the government to obtain access to incriminating data.
This is the "weapons of mass destruction" phase of the arms race -
a case obviously hand-picked to appeal to the lowest common
denominator of public fear while cloaking the nanny state with a
few threads of respectability. It's a threat so massive as to make
ordinarily sensible men look the other way, even though in
doing so, they overlook Franklin's warning about the
fundamental liberties that they are sacrificing "to purchase
a little temporary safety".
The saddest part of this farce is that the Massachusetts
Supremes probably expect to be reversed, but have passed
the buck over to Number One First St. N.W. in Washington, D.C.
(an address no doubt chosen to deliver an important message),
in order to make it clear that those on Beacon Hill consider
privacy inconvenient in an age of "tea party" spin-doctor politics.
There's no subtlety here, and no reason to debate the value of
encryption as a force for "good" vs. "evil". As Washington so
aptly pointed out over two-hundred years ago, "Government is force":
and the worst politicians money can buy are now sending a harsh
message to those whom question the Ghod-given right of the
ruling classes to know everything that they want to about
anyone that might threaten their Ghod-given right to laugh
at and ignore the rules that yoke common men.
Bill
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And though the past has it's share of injustice
Kind was the spirit in many a way
But it's protectors and friends have been sleeping
Now it's a monster and will not obey
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:43:12 -0600
From: "Fred Atkinson" <fatkinson.remove-this@and-this-too.mishmash.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Yup, 1-800-COLLECT is still in business-and charging massive fees
Message-ID: <a818ecbb43a70e991dac43906bd9ca10.squirrel@webmail.mishmash.com>
On Sun, June 29, 2014 5:46 pm, Monty Solomon wrote:
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> Yup, 1-800-COLLECT is still in business-and charging massive fees
> $42.55 for a 6-minute collect call? It happened to one Ars reader.
>
>
> by Nate Anderson June 28 2014
> Ars Technica
>
>
>
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/yup-1-800-collect-is-still-in-
>
> business-and-charging-massive-fees/
I remember getting a call from (800) COLLECT one evening back in the
late nineties. They said that the person calling was from a social
networking site that I was on now and then and asked me to accept
the charges.
I told them I wouldn't accept the charges. It sounded like a scam
to me. I figured that if it was important enough, they'd pay to
call me. They didn't. So it obviously wasn't.
I don't accept collect calls from strangers and I never have. And
with the low rates of today, there is no reason to call anyone
collect anyway.
If I remember right, that was the last time someone called me
collect. It has never happened to me since then.
From what you are telling me now, it was a good thing I didn't.
Fred
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