Monday, December 6, 2010

YouPorn sued for sniffing browser history | Deep Tech - CNET News

Given the technical requirements of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, I suspect that this case will be dismissed in fairly short order. Still, I wonder how widespread the practice of "history sniffing" really is....

YouPorn sued for sniffing browser history | Deep Tech - CNET News

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Will Netflix Kill the Internet? - BusinessWeek

An interesting article, although I must think that if folks as smart as Cisco are already predicting such an explosion in traffic, that the busy Internet infrastructure bees are hard at work increasing capacity to properly monetize all of this added usage (assuming that they have the access to capital to do so). What I would like to see, however, is an increased focus on educational applications--I have nothing against entertainment, but empowerment is not a bad goal either, don't you think?

Will Netflix Kill the Internet? - BusinessWeek