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Paul McGuinness, manager of U2, used his talk at the Music Matters conference in Hong Kong to call on ISPs to “embrace the future.” That future apparently includes handing revenues over to the music business, but leaves out ad-supported music.

But even as he wants to see more payment for artists, McGuiness rejected one model that has worked on the Internet—ad-supported content—because he feels it is beneath musicians. He's quoted as saying he does not…

As the House Committee on Energy and Commerce considers the Internet Freedom Preservation Act, testimony from the interested parties reveals that opinions on ‘Net neutrality may tell us more about those doing the testifying than what a neutral ‘Net entails. For the ISPs, at least, it appears that neutrality is a threat to their ability to innovate

Telcos, not surprisingly, beg to differ. Kyle McSlarrow, president of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, was one of the witnesses testifying, and his past testimony regarding a similar Senate bill reveal that he's…

Details are beginning to emerge of a controversial plan to charge internet users an extra fee through their ISPs to freely download music on P2P networks.

Obviously, fees that are collected from businesses tend to get passed on to consumers. Thanks to Bourget, everyone who spends money at a restaurant or a store has to pay for the background music, like it or not. Most people never notice the bite….

The Big Four record labels - EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner have started legal proceedings to force an ISP to end piracy on its network. The action, brought against Irish ISP, Eircom, is the first of its kind.

Maybe just maybe, this could be a good thing!!Once the other countries see for themselves that it is indeed legally futile to try and censor the internet then every ISP will stop trying. And this wanker is talking about bandwidth hogging. If the…

Internet filtering suffers from a fatal flaw: it can’t filter what it can’t understand. If P2P protocols adopt encryption, filtering will lose much of its effectiveness, and the RIAA boss knows it. His solution? Move the filter onto your PC.

What's most incredible about all of this is that the RIAA and some ISPs (namely AT&T) are seriously moving ahead with a filtering regime despite their own admissions that it won't work. Filters might work, they…

U2, the world famous rock band, wants to turn all ISPs in to copyright police and have them stop all that darned piracy!

So, even if an ISP would opt to start doing inspections, and sorting out which packets were illegal, they would then run up against net neutrality violations. Net neutrality is a concept that ISPs must treat all packets of information equally no…