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What Big Content wants from net neutrality (hint: protection) By Nate Anderson | Last updated Jan 15, 2010 1:50 PM The distended FCC calendar on network neutrality is right away sealed after some-more than 10,000 comments were filed. There have been a little indeed peculiar entries in the docket, together with one by “Rosemary’s Baby” which fundamentally has to be seen to be believed (PDF). But somewhat reduction peculiar were the filings of dual complicated hitters in Washington—the MPAA and the RIAA—which weighed in on network neutrality. The fillings, which done scarcely matching points, argued which the FCC should inspire ISPs to adopt “graduated response” manners directed at shortening online copyright infringement. They additionally exhibit a content-centric perspective of the universe in which Americans will not “obtain the loyal benefits which broadband can provide” unless “copyrighted calm [is] stable opposite burglary and unapproved online distribution.” That’s right, we called it “theft” What could graduated reply presumably have to do with network neutrality

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