“I guarantee you there is not one person, not one voter of any political stripe anywhere in America who asked for this. No one in America stood up in a town hall and said, ‘Sir, I demand you let somebody…
In light of a recent FCC proposal to abrogate the exclusivity rules which prevent a cable provider from reproducing a program where a broadcaster has obtained exclusive rights, this post will discuss the history and justification of these rules. A.…
Since the inception of the Internet, users have demanded faster download and upload speeds in order to quickly access and share webpages, news, photos, and videos. During the 1990s, most Internet users accessed the web through “dial-up” modems, where access…
Author: Melissa Rachel Heller, J.D Candidate, Class of 2014, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Tennis Channel and Comcast have been engaged in a bitter dispute over the provider’s refusal to carry Tennis Channel since July 2010. Tennis Channel claimed…
Author: Eric Null, Senior Articles Editor, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal The debate about network neutrality—the idea that packets of information traversing the pipes that connect us to the Internet should be treated equally and on a best-efforts basis—is…