Reposted from Read Write Web.
The Federal Communications Commission ruled this morning by a 3 to 2 vote that Comcast’s arbitrary throttling of customers’ use of BitTorrent was illegal. Hours before the ruling, the Electronic Frontier Foundation released software that anyone can use to see if their Internet Service Provider (ISP) is engaging in the same [...]

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Article here, quoted below:
Espresso, Extra Bitter
Man’s Tiff With Barista Spills Onto Internet
By Joe Heim
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 17, 2008; B01

Who knew a cup of coffee could create such a tempest in a teapot?
Not Jeff Simmermon, whose request for a triple shot of espresso over ice at Murky Coffee in Arlington County turned into a [...]

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I posted at length about this story yesterday. It was first posted on BoingBoing & Metafilter. Now the Consumerist picks it up. Other notable Washington DC area blogs, DCist and The DCeiver are also covering it. It’s a hot topic on Twitter. Also, a commenter on DCist had found this old post about how the [...]

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Update: After further reading I’ve learned that Murky Coffee used to own a store on Capital Hill in Washington DC as well but had to close down in March because they owed the District hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes & their landlord for rent dating back 2 years.
Jeff Simmermon recounts his recent [...]

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The Associated Press has promised to meet with some organization I’ve never heard of called “The Media Bloggers Association” to work out the details of its frankly insane proposal to sell licenses to quote five or more words from AP stories.
Who are the Media Bloggers Association? Turns out it’s mostly one guy, some right-wing attack-blogger [...]

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The popular Internet television network Revision3 suffered from a severe DDoS attack, launched by the infamous anti-piracy organization MediaDefender. After targeting The Pirate Bay’s trackers, MediaDefender apparently thought it was a good idea to spread their fake torrents through Revision3.

The CEO of Revision3 - Jim Louderback - was quite surprised when he found out that [...]

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A fellow DC Twitterer and social media guru who works for National Public Radio (NPR) by the name of Andy Carvin took a new gigapan camera to Union Station here in Washington DC yesterday to test if out. NPR is thinking of using it for a story soon and they need to test it more [...]

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Friday may mark a significant milestone in the RIAA’s legal campaign against file-sharing, as it is the deadline for exonerated RIAA defendant Tanya Andersen to refile her malicious prosecution lawsuit against the record labels. Soon afterwards, discovery will begin, and all sorts of unsavory details about the RIAA’s legal campaign against suspected file-sharers are likely [...]

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RateMyCop.com — a site where the general public can comment on police officers — has been shut down by its hosting company, GoDaddy. The company claims his site had been engaged in “suspicious activity.” Various police departments and organizations have spoken out against RateMyCop, arguing that it would reveal the identities of undercovers (undercovers are [...]

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