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...make calls via their cable or DSL modems. Law-enforcement snoops can't tap into conversations or identify the location of callers, even with court orders authorizing surveillance. Given that the number of Internet phone users is expected to triple this year, to 2.8 million, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week responded to a petition from the FBI and other agencies by requiring most VOIP providers to install within 18 months software that allows authorized law enforcement to wiretap conversations. Industry leader Vonage, which controls a majority of the VOIP market, is on track to enable such wiretaps...
...government prosecutors. "How will sources believe that journalists can keep their word?" he asked. But others pointed out that Time Inc. had run out of venues to fight the case. "Time Inc. fought this as hard as anyone could, with great lawyers, at great expense," said Newton Minow, former FCC chairman and professor emeritus at Northwestern University School of Law. "Once that happens, you have to obey...
...Alaska Senator Ted Stevens is seeking to apply the same decency standards the FCC applies to network broadcast television to cable television. To which many erudite, knowledgeable people are responding, 'F___ that guy.' That was a quote from Socrates...
...media icon Mel Karmazin, Sirius broadcasts 65 channels of commercial-free music, sliced and diced in formats from Broadway-show tunes to '80s hair bands, along with channels dedicated to sports, news, weather and niche shows like Derek and Romaine's, which would be fined into extinction if the FCC had its way. This being satellite radio, whose subscribers pay a $12.95 monthly fee, the content cops have no say in what's beamed down from Sirius' three satellites. And Sirius is taking full advantage of its outlier status to serve up fare you would never hear over the AM/FM...
...Although FCC rules prohibit telephone solicitation before 8 a.m. and after 9 p.m., the only way to legally prevent solicitation and potential phone scams during all other hours is registration with Massachusetts’ “Do Not Call” law. The “Do Not Call” law guarantees that residents can register their phone numbers to prohibit the receipt of telephone solicitation by phone (866) 231-2255 or online at www.madonotcall.govconnect.com/welcome.asp.