December 4, 2003
Technology Review: The Myth of Doomed Data.
Simson Garfinkel. This ironic death of Domesday has been taken as a rallying cry for an increasingly vocal group of computer scientists and archivists who argue that we are in danger of losing our cultural heritage—or at least that part of our cultural heritage that we have been foolish enough to commit to electronic storage devices. There’s just one problem with this reasoning: it’s wrong.
News.Com: FCC seeks to overturn cable broadband ruling.
However, cable companies are considered information services and are thus not federally required to share their broadband networks with anyone else. In Thursday's filing, the FCC argued that it was correct in classifying cable as an information service, sticking to its long-held desire to keep regulation out of the cable industry.
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