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TELECOM Digest Tue, 4 Oct 2005 22:33:00 EDT Volume 24 : Issue 452 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Movie Industry to Move Online to Beat Pirates (Adam Pasick) Business Leaders Seek Anti-Piracy Action (Jane Wardell) Online Lawsuits Fuel Debate in France (Laurence Frost) Cellular-News for Tuesday 4th October 2005 (Cellular-News) European M&A Action Heats Up (USTelecom dailyLead) Re: United States Says No! Internet is Ours! (Thor Lancelot Simon) Re: On Bluefrog (Tim@Backhome.org) Re: Help Needed with DHCP on Remote Laptop (Gary Breuckman) Re: Visitors Risk Being Shot in Florida (Mark Crispin) Re: Visitors Risk Being Shot in Florida (David B. Horvath, CCP) Re: Visitors Risk Being Shot in Florida (Steve Sobol) Employment Opportunity: Samsung Hiring Engineers in San Jose (G. Gibson) Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the Internet. All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are included in the fair use quote. By using -any name or email address- included herein for -any- reason other than responding to an article herein, you agree to pay a hundred dollars to the recipients of the email. =========================== Addresses herein are not to be added to any mailing list, nor to be sold or given away without explicit written consent. Chain letters, viruses, porn, spam, and miscellaneous junk are definitely unwelcome. We must fight spam for the same reason we fight crime: not because we are naive enough to believe that we will ever stamp it out, but because we do not want the kind of world that results when no one stands against crime. Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Adam Pasick <reuters@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Movie Industry to Move Online to Beat Pirates Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 16:33:15 -0500 By Adam Pasick The film industry is working to launch online movie download services to avoid the same fate as the piracy-ridden music industry, NBC Universal Chairman and Chief Executive Bob Wright said on Tuesday. "It's something we have to do, but it has to be done well," Wright said "These movies are so expensive we have to be careful ... We're pretty close. Hopefully by the end of this year we'll be able to do that." Wright was speaking at the launch of an anti-piracy and counterfeiting initiative with senior executives from media, software, pharmaceutical and food industries known as "Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy" (BASCAP). Other participants included Microsoft's Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, Nestle's Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Vivendi Universal's Jean-Rene Fourtou and EMI Group's Eric Nicoli. "The problems are spreading and no one is immune," Wright said. "In my business we're just looking over the shoulder of the music industry, which has gone through a very difficult time." The global music industry has been decimated by physical piracy and online file-trading networks. It has stemmed some of the losses by aggressively targeting illicit file-sharers with lawsuits while also offering legal online alternatives like Apple's iTunes Music Store. Movies are increasingly vulnerable to online piracy due to the spread of high-speed Internet connections and file-sharing technologies like BitTorrent. Eight people were charged last week for stealing a copy of "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith" and posting it online before the movie appeared in theatres. There are already at least two fledgling online movie stores: Movielink, which is a venture of five major Hollywood studios, and CinemaNow, which is jointly owned by Lions Gate Entertainment, Microsoft, Blockbuster and several private equity firms. Wright also spoke about the battle over next-generation DVD technology. Universal Studios, a unit of NBC Universal, and Warner Bros Studios have endorsed the HD DVD format, while Paramount, Sony Pictures, Walt Disney Co. and Twentieth Century Fox have backed the rival Blu-ray format. "You'd always rather have one standard -- that's going to happen eventually," he said. "Hopefully this won't go as far as (the) Betamax-VHS (video tape format battle)." Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. ------------------------------ From: Jane Wardell <ap@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Business Leaders Seek Anti-Piracy Action Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 16:34:44 -0500 By JANE WARDELL, AP Business Writer Business leaders representing industries ranging from pharmaceutical to software agreed at a meeting here Tuesday to form a coalition to lobby governments around the world to step up the fight against international piracy and counterfeiting. Executives including Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steven Ballmer, EMI Group PLC Chairman Eric Nicoli and NBC Universal Chief Executive Officer Bob Wright said many governments had not done enough to legislate against -- or enforce existing legislation against -- the theft of intellectual property. NBC Universal is , a unit of General Electric Co. "We need an adequate legal framework and enforcement capacity," said Vivendi Universal Chairman Jean-Rene Fourtou after the meeting. "We are very far from that even in the U.S., and Europe is quite worse." Nicoli warned governments that the companies forming the coalition under the banner "Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy" were worth around $1,000 billion, with a work force of 1 million and served more than a billion people. "These aren't statistics, we respectfully suggest, that governments can afford to ignore," he said. Nicoli declined to name countries that were dragging their heels on the fight against piracy, but said that the coalition would draw up a series of indices and publish them within the year. He said the executives had decided to tackle the problem in the same way the pirates operate, by forming a coalition across industries and companies. Nicoli on Tuesday dismissed suggestions by Apple Computer Inc. that a single price for songs sold over the Internet would help prevent piracy in the music industry. "I'm not persuaded by the argument that a single price deters piracy," Nicoli said at a news conference in London to promote a new coalition of countries involved. Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs last month called music companies greedy for seeking higher prices for music downloaded from the Internet, saying such moves would increase piracy. While the music industry has so far borne the brunt of copyright theft, with its easily reproducible and distributable products, the executives pointed out that almost every other industry is vulnerable. Ballmer told the conference that the software industry is losing up to $32 billion annually to piracy. In the pharmaceuticals sector, up to 10 percent of products worldwide are counterfeit, rising to as much as 50 percent to 60 percent in the developing world. "Nobody is immune," said Wright. "There are elements that are very bad and the reputations of countries and citizens are at stake." Nicoli said there would be no "overnight success" in tackling piracy and counterfeiting but pointed to improvements in the music industry, which has waged a campaign against digital piracy over the past few years. The multi-pronged approach by the music industry has included a public education campaign and a series of lawsuits against individual file-sharers around the world. "We are seeing progress and we are at least containing piracy," Nicoli said of the music industry. The executives agreed to combine their current efforts to fight piracy and create the first global cross-sector stock-take of the size of the problem. They will also lobby other businesses to join the coalition. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. For more news headlines and stories from Associated Press or to listen to AP News Radio, go to http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/AP.html ------------------------------ From: Laurence Frost <ap@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Onlne Lawsuits Fuel Debate in France Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 16:37:14 -0500 By LAURENCE FROST, AP Business Writer Attorney Jean-Marc Goldnadel knew he was going to make waves when he launched classaction.fr -- a French Web site that lets users sign up to lawsuits online for as little as 12 euros ($14.50). Sure enough, the site has ruffled France's traditionalist establishment and raised the temperature of a debate on government plans to let plaintiffs file U.S.-style class actions in French courts. But Maitre Goldnadel underestimated the backlash, and even several consumer groups are trying to shut him down. A verdict is due next month on their court challenge, the second against the site, and the Paris Bar Council is scouring its pages for ethics breaches. Opponents of the government's plans have also seized on classaction.fr as evidence that a class action law would encourage the kind of "excesses" that the United States is now trying to curb: ambulance- chasing lawyers, ruinous damages awards and spurious lawsuits used to blackmail companies into settlements. "This is grist for our mill," said Joelle Simon, head of legal affairs at France's main employers' organization, Medef. "This is exactly what we don't want -- we have no desire to see this kind of practice become widespread." President Jacques Chirac announced the introduction of class actions earlier this year, but Simon, who represents Medef on a government advisory panel, cautions that France would do well to avoid the U.S. model. "It's an incitement to blackmail," she said. "We know what the American system costs their economy, and that is one import we can really do without." Just as class action lawsuits arrive in Europe -- Britain and Sweden have recently opened their courts to limited forms of class actions and Italy is considering them -- Washington has been taking steps to rein them in. U.S. President George W. Bush signed a law in February making it harder to file "junk lawsuits" that stand little chance of winning in court, but sometimes scare companies into settling anyway. Such suits drove overall U.S. legal costs to $240 billion last year, Bush said. But French consumer groups say class actions are the only way to obtain justice when, for instance, a company overbills thousands of customers by a few hundred euros (dollars) each -- hardly worth suing for individually. Whereas a single U.S. consumer can file a class action covering all those who have suffered the same prejudice, French attorneys need a signed mandate from each litigant. Rules barring them from advertising or approaching prospective clients make it almost impossible to gather plaintiffs. Goldnadel and his associates work around the restrictions by getting the clients to come to them. Close to 1,000 plaintiffs have signed up online for two pending lawsuits. The first accuses movie distributors of breaching consumer rights by copy-protecting DVDs; the second seeks damages for misleading financial information allegedly given to Vivendi Universal SA shareholders. But French consumer organization UFC-Que Choisir and four smaller groups are accusing classaction.fr of unlawfully recruiting clients and requiring plaintiffs to cede control of settlement decisions. The site tells visitors who have bought DVDs that "you have suffered the following prejudices, for which we are demanding damages in court." It goes on to outline the case, inviting users to click on a flashing red button to sign up and enter credit card details. Fees start at 12 euros up front, plus 40 percent of any damages won. Goldnadel is confident that he is operating within the law. "There is nothing outrageous about telling people they've suffered a prejudice in a certain way," he said in an interview. "It is an attorney's job to do that -- it's not ambulance-chasing." Despite its case against the site, UFC-Que Choisir is pushing for a U.S.-style class action procedure in France that automatically covers all potential victims unless they opt out. French employers would rather see a more limited "opt-in" system obliging attorneys to collect mandates from every plaintiff -- as classaction.fr currently does. "If a company's involved in a court case, it should know who it is up against," said Medef's Simon. Others argue that the more powerful class action procedure would actually help corporations contain litigation risk. "It is in companies' interests to have an opt-out system," said Paris-based attorney Ron Soffer, who is also qualified at the New York bar. An opt-out suit usually covers the "vast majority" of possible plaintiffs, Soffer said. "Once it settles with the class, the company has basically settled the entire case and will probably never hear of it again." But such a major step could require changes to existing French laws as well as to the constitution. While the government is keeping quiet before the working group makes its recommendations, expected this month, comments by ministers suggest their approach will be gentler. Finance Minister Thierry Breton has said the government is keen to avoid the "abuse" of class actions seen in the United States. Their introduction will go ahead "in a French context and in a more controlled way," he told reporters recently. "It is a wonderful business for the lawyers, but not always for the consumer." Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. ------------------------------ Subject: Cellular-News for Tuesday 4th October 2005 Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 09:11:47 -0500 From: Cellular-News <dailydigest@cellular-news.com> Cellular-News - http://www.cellular-news.com PrePay Registration Commences in Malaysia http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14271.php Following a decree from the Malaysian government requiring all PrePay phone users to register their handsets, prepaid mobile users in Penang and Malacca became the first in the country to be registered. The campaign was ... HSDPA Due in South Korea Next Year http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14272.php South Korea's SK Telecom has selected LG Electronics (LGE) and Nortel to deploy HSDPA and WCDMA platforms in the country. Nortel will provide the HSDPA infrastructure, while LGE will provide the UMTS core network.... Flash Memory in Casio Cellphones http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14273.php Spansion, the Flash memory venture of AMD and Fujitsu has announced that Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications has developed two new cellular handsets with 512 Mb NOR Flash memory, which uses stacked versions of Spansion's... Tap into Tech-Savvy Female Market for Mobile Content http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14274.php The tech-savvy female market offers a source of new revenue opportunities for mobile operators worldwide, according to independent research commissioned by LogicaCMG. The survey shows that the percentage of female mobile... Improving Customer Care for Vodafone Hungary http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14275.php Vodafobe Hungary has migrated its entire customer base onto an Amdocs Billing platform. In addition, the company has selected Amdocs Self Service, which is part of Amdocs CRM. Amdocs was the systems integrator for the bi... Location Aware 3G Service from Vodafone http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14276.php Vodafone Japan has launched? location-based information services for Vodafone K.K. 3G handsets. Using location information from base stations, the service automatically displays the customer's current location area on Vo... Telefonica: Hasn't Approached KPN Over Possible Bid http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14269.php Telefonica spokesman Miguel Angel Garzon said the company hasn't had any contact with KPN's management. ... Nokia: T-Mobile Uses Nokia Mobile Solution In Hungary http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14270.php Finland's Nokia Oyj (NOK) Monday said German operator T-Mobile International AG (TMO.YY) has commercially launched a push to talk service in Hungary using a Nokia solution. ... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 13:06:29 EDT From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com> Subject: European M&A Action Heats Up USTelecom dailyLead October 4, 2005 http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/vekIatagCqzXqFIVXT TODAY'S HEADLINES NEWS OF THE DAY * European M&A action heats up BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH * Report: Verizon Wireless to roll out live TV in 2006 * Telefonica, KPN in merger talks * Philadelphia chooses EarthLink for Wi-Fi * More big companies consider own fiber networks * MCI to pay $331M in back taxes USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT * Deloitte Mergers & Acquisitions Conference @ TELECOM 05 TECHNOLOGY TRENDS * Triple-play provider announces FTTH solution REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE * Some business travelers hope cell phone ban remains * Oregon woman sues RIAA * Editorial: Keep U.S. control of ICANN Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others. http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/vekIatagCqzXqFIVXT ------------------------------ From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) Subject: Re: United States Says No! Internet is Ours! Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 05:41:11 UTC Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Reply-To: tls@rek.tjls.com In article <telecom24.450.9@telecom-digest.org>, Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> wrote: > In article <telecom24.449.10@telecom-digest.org>, PAT wrote: >> Since the 'root servers' are by and large in the United States, or >> under the supervision of the United States > The quoted statement above is essentially false. The root servers > *your* DNS requests happen to terminate on may be in the United > States, but that's just an artifact of particularly clever and > effective use of DHCP. The root servers are distributed around the The mind thought "BGP". The fingers typed "DHCP". Oops. Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com "The inconsistency is startling, though admittedly, if consistency is to be abandoned or transcended, there is no problem." - Noam Chomsky ------------------------------ From: Tim@Backhome.org Subject: Re: On Bluefrog Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 11:36:33 GMT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Chuck Wassall wrote: > You are quite right in your exceptions to Bluefrog, and have > reservations as I do. Let me explain. I live in a remote location that > can only receive a 28.8K input. While I understand broadband has > spread widely, most of the world still operates at that speed. When I > get a hundred spams, some of them over 50K, it takes 4 hours to > download and my email service has been rendered useless. I think it is > up to the individual ISP's to filter their services, rather than > choose to ignore the complaints of their customers as they do now. I have broadband 11 months of the year and dial-up the remaining month. When on s-l-o-w dial-up I have found using my ISP's webmail to clean out spam before I do a POP3 download works quite fine as a workaound to avoid downloading reams of spam. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I do the same thing here. Although I am always on broadband, one of the 'mail stops' my computer makes each time I check for mail is with cableone.net. Cable One takes those items it _percieves_ to be spam (it can be trained by watching your work the first few days you have it) and it batches them all in a single file called 'spam and viruses' then sends me a single cover letter asking me to 'call at the post office' (an http link is provided) to examine, claim or destroy those items. Naturally I get between 75-100 viruses most days, and about the same number of spams at my cableone.net account. Little check boxes allow for deliver, destroy, destroy all, etc and often times just a glance tells me all I care to know about some of the items, and they can get junked on the spot. Then I can back out of the post office, return to my Outlook Express and deal with the _real_ email. It makes it much easier using POP to go to the server and trash a few hundred of the nasty things then and there rather then sit and wait while POP delivers them all to me, especially since some of them are so _huge_ and nasty. PAT] ------------------------------ From: Gary Breuckman <puma@catbox.com> Subject: Re: Help Needed with DHCP on Remote Laptop Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 20:52:10 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Reply-To: puma@catbox.com ptownson wrote: > Help wanted: I have a laptop computer here running Win NT from 1997. > I have a NetGear Wireless card in a slot. It seems to be correctly > installed; that is, the drivers are there, the little green light on > the 'television icon' is present, it _says_ it has a very good link, > and should be working fine. But the laptop reports "The DHCP client > could not obtain an IP address". Furthermore, no one else on the > network can see the laptop. The laptop cannot connect to the internet > nor see anyone else on tne network either. Yet it claims the link > is present and very strong. Can anyone tell me what is wrong? Why > is it unable to obtain an IP address via DHCP? Thanks for the help. > PAT I would try setting the connection up manually. - address - netmask (255.255.255.0) - gateway - DNS entries (any working DNS) and see if it works. -- Gary Breuckman ------------------------------ From: Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU> Subject: Re: Visitors Risk Being Shot in Florida Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 21:34:10 -0700 Organization: University of Washington The new Florida law does nothing more than say that if you are the victim of an unprovoked attack, you do not have a duty to run away from the attacker. The key word is "unprovoked". You're not allowed to bait someone at a bar into a rage, and then pull a gun as your trump card. This brings Florida law back into line with the laws of most other states. When the Brady bunch says "no other state has ever passed a law like this one", what they really mean is that Florida is the first state that had a New York City style "you're not allowed to defend yourself" law and subsequently repealed it. Then again, truth has never been a strong point for the anti-gunners. -- Mark -- http://panda.com/mrc Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 08:20:22 -0400 Subject: Re: Visitors Risk Being Shot in Florida From: David B. Horvath, CCP <dhorvath@notchur.biz> PAT -- please mung my email address, leaving my real name is just fine. On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 14:41:38 -0500, AFP News Wire <afp@telecom- digest.org> wrote: > Attention: Visitors Risk Being Shot in Florida > Welcome to Florida, but avoid arguments or thanks to a new law you run > the risk of getting shot, according to an ad campaign launched by a > gun-control group. It is important to note that "visitors" risk being shot in any state (and country) since firearms are easy to get just about anywhere (even where heavily regulated or illegal like Washington DC or London England). Beyond that, the Florida law change isn't just about gun owners, it is about the use of "deadly force". A senior citizen using their walker to fend off a mugger is using deadly force ... Florida isn't the first state to have a law like this; I know that the law in Pennsylvania declares that deadly force may be used in situations where a reasonable person would fear for their life, serious bodily injury, or the same for another (i.e., someone is threatening a spouse with a baseball bat). BTW: Who is AFP News Wire and why are they using a telecom-digest address (and not their own domain)? Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. - David [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: AFP is 'Agence France Presse' and it is the 'French equivilent' of our United Press International or Reuters or Associated Press. It is one of the news wires I receive here each day. The main reason I show their address as '@telecom-digest.org' is because of the terrible spam problem. As with the writers from Reuters and/or Associated Press, they do have email addresses with their organization (which will often times be found camoufloged in the news item at the bottom of the article, etc.) But because all of the news writers/reporters get absolutely eaten alive with spam each day -- same as myself -- one thing I offer all of them is a bogus address at the old honey-pot itself, telecom-digest.org. Its the same as I offer you readers who cannot deal any longer with spam; if you tell me you do not want your address made public -- and assuming I do not screw up as I did with one the other day, I 'assign' you a mailbox in my other favorite domain, '@notchur.biz'. Any of the crapola which comes to somename@telecom- digest.org I just pitch out unread usually. Stuff that winds up at somename@notchur.biz goes to whoever runs 'notchur.biz' and they get to deal with it, I suppose. I invite any of you to use 'notchur.biz' for unsolicited mail. PAT] ------------------------------ From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> Subject: Re: Visitors Risk Being Shot in Florida Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 21:31:16 -0700 Organization: Glorb Internet Services, http://www.glorb.com AFP News Wire wrote: > Florida tourist authorities are hardly amused by the campaign. Then they should have taken an active stance against the law. If this article is to be believed, Florida legislators are apparently *really* stupid. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638 PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Company website: http://JustThe.net/ Personal blog, resume, portfolio: http://SteveSobol.com/ E: sjsobol@JustThe.net Snail: 22674 Motnocab Road, Apple Valley, CA 92307 [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well no one I know ever accused Florida legislators of being classmates in competition with Albert Einstein. Yes, that is a new law in Florida. You may also recall that a few years ago, there was an instance of some tourists from Germany getting their rental car in Florida car-jacked, then they, themselves got shot dead. There was a big stink about that case also, and the German newspapers played it up. Probably the French newspapers (AFP) wanted make French people aware of this new law in Florida also. PAT] ------------------------------ From: gg_samsung <ggibson@sta.samsung.com> Subject: Employment Opportunity: Samsung is Hiring in San Jose!!! Date: 4 Oct 2005 14:56:31 -0700 Samsung Telecommunications of America Position: Software Engineer Group: Mobile Communications Lab Location: San Jose, CA Job Summary As a software engineer, you serve as a vital team member of a newly created R&D group for Samsung Telecommunications America (STA) in San Jose, CA. 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