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Final Draft Of ACTA Watered Down, TPP Still Dangerous On IP Rules

January 28, 2012Erik Kain

So it turns out that many of the worst provisions in ACTA, once they saw the light of day, were scaled way back. Nate of Ars Technica writes: US Trade Representative Ron Kirk, whose office negotiated the US side of the deal, issued astatement this morning about the “tremendous progress in the fight against counterfeiting […]

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ACTA Moves Forward In Europe Despite Protests – What It Means For Our Freedom Online

January 27, 2012Erik Kain

Updated below. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) was signed yesterday by the European Commission, leading to protests across Europe but especially in Poland where thousands of citizens took to the streets over concerns of online censorship. See Also: Final Draft of ACTA watered down; TPP still dangerous on IP. Some EU leaders are unhappy as well. […]

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Sonic.Net CEO Dane Jasper On Super-Fast Internet And Why It’s Still A Niche Product In The United States

January 13, 2012Erik Kain

If you’re one of seven-hundred lucky households in Sebastopol, California your internet is about to become much faster. Telecom start-up Sonic.net is rolling out fiber lines to a small group of California residents in its initial foray into 1Gbps internet. That’s fast. In 2010, the median internet speed in the United States was a paltry 3 […]

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America Needs 1Gbps Internet in Every Home

November 22, 2011Erik Kain

You can pay $40 a month for 1.5Mbps “high-speed” internet from a provider like or, if you’re lucky, you can be part of Sonic.net’s 700-home roll-out of fiber lines that pump internet into your home 600 times that fast for less than twice the cost. At $69.99 the plan is less than a third of […]

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