Yes, RoadMAP knows that you need to register to view pieces from the Financial Times’ website, but it’s free and, in this case, highly appropriate.  As one of the few journalism sites which has successfully employed a paywall, the FT has a very interesting report on the impact of a new paywall on the viewership of the Times [...]

France has adopted a draconian anti-piracy law.  According to this report in the New York Times, so far it has not lived up to its promise.  A lot of us in the public interest community have expected this, but it is too early to draw final conclusions.
France’s Three-Strikes Law for Internet Piracy Hasn’t Brought Any [...]

‘Friends With Benefits,’ others poised to raise risque quotient
By Elizabeth Guider, Hollywood Reporter
There was a particularly unbridled episode of Fox’s “American Dad” in January in which Stan, well, gave “full release” to a racehorse. That shenanigan was duly hit with an FCC fine. But five years ago, it wouldn’t even have aired.
Fade whatever is left [...]

By Lora Bentley, IT Business Edge
Thursday was the last day to submit comments on the Federal Communication’s Commission’s proposed “third way” compromise for broadband regulation, an approach in which the agency suggests identifying “wired broadband Internet service as a telecommunications service,” but only applying the parts of Title II of the Communications Act that are necessary to [...]

WASHINGTON — Media Access Project (MAP) filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission today on behalf of the Media Action Grassroots Network (“MAG-Net”). MAP and MAG-Net urged the Commission to make access to broadband and mobile services more affordable for low-income individuals, while maintaining support for basic voice services subsidized via the Lifeline and Link-Up [...]

WASHINGTON – Media Access Project (MAP) filed two sets of comments with the Federal Communications Commission today urging the agency to classify wireline and wireless broadband as telecommunications services. This classification will provide sound authority for the Commission to bring affordable broadband to communities across the country and to protect Internet users. In the filings, [...]

Notwithstanding the new iPhone’s reception problems, the iPhone is still clearly consumers’ preferred device in terms of design and functionality.  Even so, the Android family of smartphones is gaining rapidly in the market.  This article describes some of the reasons for this, most notably AT&T’s inferior network, but it gives short shrift to another factor [...]

This piece in from the Financial Times has caused something of a stir in the tech world because it quotes a Google executive as saying that Google uses human judgments as part of its supersecret search algorhythm.  However, the reason RoadMAP recommends it is because this article contains a terrific explanation of the operation and significance of [...]

By Eliza Krigman, Congress Daily
Most panelists expressed serious concern, if not outright objection, to the proposed $30 billion merger of Comcast and NBC Universal at a public hearing the FCC held in Chicago Tuesday.
“Broadband and the Internet must not become the province of gatekeepers and toll booth collectors,” Democratic Commissioner Michael Copps said in his [...]

MVPD-impact panel features mostly critics of deal
John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable
Small cable operators, an independent programmer, and a former FCC commissioner led the afternoon prodding of the Comcast/NBCU merger at the FCC’s Chicago forum Tuesday.
Like the first panel of the day–on online access issues–the participants were weighted toward those with criticisms [...]