Internet Access: Where Law, Economy, Culture and Technology Meet

Abstract

Internet growth has allowed unprecedented widespread access to cultural creation including music and lms, to knowledge, and to a wide range of consumer information. At the same time, it has become a huge source of business opportunities. Along with great benets that this access to the Internet provides, the open and free access to the Internet has encountered large opposition based on political, economical and ethical reasons. An ongoing battle over the control on Internet access has been escalating on all these fronts. In this paper we describe rst some of the ideological roots of free access to the Internet along with its main opponents. We then focus on the problem of Internet piracy and analyze the eciency of eorts to reduce the availability of copyrighted creations that are available for non-authorized free download.

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Net Neutrality and Quality of Service

“…In their judgement, it recognized that the Internet is an instrument for exercising the freedom of speech. Similar relations between the Internet and the American constitution (and amendments) have also been made in the USA, see [3] for more details.…”

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“…A complex research into political content is based on network approach which is premised on the belief that socio-political processes and their participants are global social graphs. The notion of a social graph is based on the conception that the world is comprised of networks rather than groups; thus, the nature of the participants of network interaction is determined by the intersection of these networks (Naybet, 2009;Wong, 2011).…”