Here's Fran Nevrkla, Chairman and CEO of Phonographic Performance Ltd, a UK music industry association, addressing the group's AGM.

The FCC has given Hollywood permission to activate the "Selective Output Control" technologies in your set-top box.

WASHINGTON – In the wake of a recent Supreme Court ruling, which gives special interests, corporations – and potentially foreign nationals – the power to spend unlimited money to influence the outcome of elections, President Barack Obama called on Congress to enact reforms to limit this power and protect the integrity of our democracy.  With these reforms, campaign committees will have to reveal who is funding them, and their leaders or financers will have to claim responsibility for their ads.  Also, the reforms will restrict foreign corporations and foreign nationals from spending money i

As the FCC gets closer to crafting network neutrality rules (assuming they even have the authority to do so), AT&T lobbyists have worked overtime to push the idea that creating such rules would automatically result in job losses.

It has been kind of entertaining (some would say frightening) watching the Australian government's futile efforts to clean the Internet of its naughty bits. As part of their filtering plans, the government conducted trials with a handful of ISPs, many of whom have been very vocal in their beliefs that the filters won't technically work.