Roadshow happy to strike more ISP content deals – ITnews

Dealing with piracy in an NBN world. Roadshow – one of the plaintiffs in the copyright case against iiNet – was more than happy to strike content deals with ISPs as long as they were negotiated “within a copyright framework”. The entertainment

ISP prepares for new prison, direct supervision – Fort Madison Daily Democrat
With the groundbreaking of the new Iowa State Penitentiary set for April, administrators of the prison are brushing up on some policies and procedures this week, along with learning how the new prison will operate. ISP employees met in the Fort

Google Doesn’t Want to Be an ISP — It Wants to Be a Rabble-rouser – CNN Money
Minnie Ingersoll : Some of this is because it’s a natural follow-on to the work we’ve done in response to the National Broadband Plan. Some of that advocacy includes saying the government should set up testbeds to set up super-fast connections

Court Rejects IFPI Appeal For ISP To Block The Pirate Bay – TorrentFreak
After the IFPI and several movie studios lost their case to force ISP Telenor to block The Pirate Bay, they appealed the decision on the basis the lower court had ruled incorrectly. In yet another blow to the entertainment indiustry in their battle

Google launching 1Gbps ISP service to select markets at ‘competitive – engadget
Google’s always tiptoed around directly providing internet access to consumers with things like free airport WiFi ands the free WiFi network it runs in Mountain View, but today the company announced that it’s getting in the game for real with the