p2pnet roundup: July 11, 2007
p2pnet news | Last of the day
… the iPhone only works if you are an AT&T customer. If your mobile phone service is with any other provider – T-Mobile, Verizon, or Sprint – you’re out of luck. You can’t have it. To get one, you’ll have to break your contract with your service and change to AT&T. That will cost you a few hundred dollars in early termination fees. And if you are on a family plan, you may have to pay a separate fee to terminate all of your family’s phones. Only then will you have the privilege of dropping $600 on an iPhone and signing up for a two-year contract with AT&T. Oh, and if you live in one of more than a dozen states where AT&T doesn’t offer close to full coverage? Too bad. No iPhone for you.
TiVo goes live with Amazon Unbox partnership
TiVo subscribers now have direct access to the Amazon.com’s Unbox movie and TV download service on their digital video recorders, the companies said Wednesday.
UK computer history gets new home
Plans are taking shape to set up a museum that celebrates Britain’s role in the origins of the digital age. The National Museum of Computing will be based at Bletchley Park where World War II code breakers built the first recognisably modern computers.
Accuser Says Web Site for Teenagers Has X-Rated Link
Parents and child safety experts concerned about the online activities of teenagers have been particularly nervous about a Web site called Stickam, which allows its 600,000 registered users, age 14 and older, to participate in unfiltered live video chats using their Web cameras. But those Internet safety advocates might be even more anxious if they knew of Stickam’s close ties to a large online pornography business.
ISPs stand firm after P2P ruling
The Internet Service Providers’ Association has repeated its assertion that ISPs should not be responsible for any illegal file sharing that takes place over their networks. Speaking on Wednesday in the wake of a controversial ruling in a Belgian court and comments made by the Conservative leader David Cameron, a spokesperson for ISPA maintained that ISPs should not be “set up to play judge and jury” over alleged copyright infringement.
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