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Does Bell Really Have a P2P Bandwidth Problem?

From: NetNeutrality.ca

Primus Jumps Into CAIP-Bell Throttling Case

From: NetNeutrality.ca

Comcast to spearhead creation of P2P Bill of Rights

by: Nate Anderson

Europe rejects anti-piracy plans

by: BBC News

European politicians have voted down calls to throw suspected file-sharers off the net.

The idea to cut off persistent pirates formed part of a wide-ranging report on creative industries written for the European parliament.

But in a narrow vote MEPs backed an amendment to the report which said net bans conflicted with "civil liberties and human rights".

It puts MEPS at odds with governments planning tough action against pirates.

Piracy police

Third party Internet providers are up in arms because of a new Bell high-speed Internet policy that slows service to some of their customers. Do you think ISPs that sell bandwidth to third parties have the right to "shape" that bandwidth?

Harper government sides with big telecom companies

Industry Minister Jim Prentice refuses to step into controversy over Internet 'traffic shaping'

by: NUPGE

Ottawa (3 April 2008): The Harper government has apparently decided to let big Canadian telecommunications companies manipulate Internet traffic by 'shaping' the flow of data as they see fit.

Industry Minister Jim Prentice refused Wednesday in the House of Commons to take any stand on the issue, promising only to monitor the issue.