Robert A. Uhl

Disney destroys net neutrality

A fundamental principle of the Internet is that all hosts are peers, that is, there is nothing fundamentally different about your laptop or Time magazine’s web serving computers: each is a computer; each can run the same software and communicate in the same way; neither is privileged over the other. Net neutrality is an important implication of this principle. Basically, all hosts on the Internet have the same access to resources as any other host. Read more →

Disney destroys net neutrality

A fundamental principle of the Internet is that all hosts are peers, that is, there is nothing fundamentally different about your laptop or Time magazine’s web serving computers: each is a computer; each can run the same software and communicate in the same way; neither is privileged over the other. Net neutrality is an important implication of this principle. Basically, all hosts on the Internet have the same access to resources as any other host. Read more →

How one man became a music ‘pirate’

Read on to learn how the music industry’s insanity turned a man with upwards of $20,000 in records and CDs into a music ‘pirate.’ Make a quality product at a reasonable price, and people will buy it. Make a rotten product at an insane price, and they won’t. Is that so hard to understand? Read more →

How one man became a music ‘pirate’

Read on to learn how the music industry’s insanity turned a man with upwards of $20,000 in records and CDs into a music ‘pirate.’ Make a quality product at a reasonable price, and people will buy it. Make a rotten product at an insane price, and they won’t. Is that so hard to understand? Read more →

A World of Ends

Doc Searls and David Weinberger have written a great document called A World of Ends, explaining why the Internet is what it is, and why we seem to keep on making the same mistakes about it. Read more →

A World of Ends

Doc Searls and David Weinberger have written a great document called A World of Ends, explaining why the Internet is what it is, and why we seem to keep on making the same mistakes about it. Read more →