Date: 24 Aug 2000 06:15:22 -0400 Message-ID: <20000824101522.14960.qmail@xuxa.iecc.com> From: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org (Telecom Digest) To: telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Subject: Telecom Digest V2000 #31 Reply-To: editor@telecom-digest.org Sender: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Errors-To: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Precedence: bulk X-UIDL: 3647776a221eb6c908482a3e8f0105dc Status: RO X-Status: Telecom Digest Thursday, August 24 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 031 In this issue: Re: bad mobile service (was So now I'm a Telus customer again) Re: Music to My Ears But Not EMI's AT&Ts contribution to network radio 800 Number portability Acceptable international DS3 error rates Re: Passionate reactions online to the DVD decision Is anyone using 3Com NBX 100 or NBX 25? Re: Passionate reactions online to the DVD decision Statement by the Press Secretary on Verio Acquisition Akamai caught in Net filtering cross fire CYBERsitter responds to Akamai backdoor New law gives genetic privacy protection Re: CMA cancels show, fires staff 8/23/00 ICBTollFree.Com HEADS UP HEADLINES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 23 Aug 2000 08:20:57 -0400 From: Joseph Singer Subject: Re: bad mobile service (was So now I'm a Telus customer again) 22 Aug 2000 09:33:57 -0400 "Joey Lindstrom" wrote: >And now I discover this morning that, thanks to a $6.6 billion >takeover, my Clearnet cellphone service is now brought to me by the >friendly (HAH!) folks at Telus. Instead of four cell alternatives, I >suddenly have only three. And worse yet: Telus now owns both of the >providers that use the superior CDMA technology, so if I switch to >either Rogers or Fido, I've gotta change to one of those crappy TDMA >phones. Before you start bashing mobile standards such as TDMA for the perceived "bestness" of CDMA which others have differing opinion consider that Fido a/k/a Microcell uses the GSM standard for mobile telephony. If you'll check what mobile standard is the *most* used in the world you'll probably find that besides analog AMPS that the most widely deployed mobile telephone standard is in fact GSM. If we're going to totally look at it the GSM standard is a variation on TDMA technology. That said, I don't think mobile telephony companies such as Sprint or AT&T would deploy a technology that was inferior. They wouldn't have any customers. The truth about wireless technlogies is that for certain situations one might work better than others. Many factors influence how well a certain type of phone will act in certain situations. A blanket statement that a certain service is crap is not at all a fair assessment. Joseph - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Singer Seattle, Washington USA [ICQ pgr] +1 206 405 2052 [voice mail] +1 206 493 0706 [FAX] - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 23 Aug 2000 09:04:58 -0400 From: "Joey Lindstrom" Subject: Re: Music to My Ears But Not EMI's Apologies up front for drifting slightly off-topic - this is in regards to the copyright issues involved with distributing distinctive-ring music to Nokia cellphones. Feel free to skip. On 23 Aug 2000 06:15:11 -0400, Dan wrote: >> Music to My Ears S But Not EMI's >> >> The music publishing company sues the brilliantly annoying provider of >> tuneful cell-phone rings. > >Quoting the article: "Because YourMobile.com clips are not sound >recordings, but eight- to 12-second excerpts in computer MIDI format, >the company does not have to license the songs from the record labels. >It requires only a license from music publishers, which ultimately >will funnel money to the original songwriters of the works." > >This is tangential to the telecom issues of the matter, but is a >snippet of only 8-12 seconds long enough to fall outside the realm >of fair use? 8-12 seconds of a 3:05 pop song is not a significant >amount on a percentage basis. It's not even long enough for a >single verse or chorus on most songs. I'm guessing the ring-tone >folks are just MIDIfying the most recognizible riff or progression >or whatever. If they're actually trying to establish licensing >deals with the publishers, I'd say that's exceptionally nice of >them, and even if they're not, I don't think there's much grounds >for a lawsuit. But my knowledge of copyright is much sharper in >the printed-word area, so if someone here's a music copyright whiz, >please feel free to correct me. I'm no lawyer either but I have some experience in radio commercial production, and here's what I learned along the way. Your mileage may vary. If you're using a piece of an actual recording (note the distinction, the same one you make in your first paragraph), then copyright obtains no matter how short or how long a piece you use. Fair use? No, I can't see this as fair use - one company is SELLING this service to consumers. That said, in the radio biz (at least in Canada), the rule of thumb for using a piece of a recording (say, in commercials) is "eight seconds". Don't go over 8 seconds and the copyright police won't bother you. Go over it, and expect your own station manager to demand you re-do the commercial. I did one 30-second spot for a local advertiser that wanted some music in his commercial that would bring back memories of the 1988 Olympics in Calgary, so we used exactly 8 seconds worth of David Foster's "Winter Games" (the theme music for those Games), but then faded into some production music (which we had a licence for). Any more than that, and it could be construed that the product was being "endorsed" by Foster: a definite no-no. In fact, the whole thing is illegal but generally speaking this is the agreement that the music labels have, unofficially, with the radio stations. 8 seconds. Don't break that barrier, say the labels, and we won't mess with you. Still illegal, but they won't touch you as long as you respect the limits. (These limits do not apply if you are creating a commercial FOR the music you are using... for example, if I'm doing a spot for a record store and they're promoting the latest Foo Fighters album, and say so in the commercial, I can use as much of the Foo Fighters music as I want, as that IS the product being promoted). This isn't "fair use" per se (which is why it's still technically illegal), but the record companies realize that there's a distinction between using their music to evoke a mood (which enhances both the commercial *AND* the original recording, and it can be demonstrated that this can increase sales of the original music) and using it to "endorse" a product. The former they like, the latter they don't, and they've arbitrarily chosen eight seconds as the dividing line between the two. But as for these MIDI (or whatever format) files, you are absolutely right. The copyright in question when dealing with these files is with the original music publisher. In SOME cases, that's also the label. But the music label's copyright generally covers only the PERFORMANCE (ie: that specific recording). For example, I'm a fan (see my email address) of a musician named Gary Numan, who has changed labels a few times over the years. His big hit (in the US anyways) was a song called "Cars", released in 1980. The rights to that "performance" are owned by his first record label, Beggars Banquet. However, he personally owns the rights (by being his own publisher) to the music and lyrics, so on subsequent albums (ie: live albums) on DIFFERENT LABELS he is able to include new performances of this song (and indeed he's done so), without requiring the permission of Beggars Banquet or anybody else. (The Artist Formerly Known As) Prince ran into some copyright troubles some time ago: he wanted to rerelease an old album of his but his old record label (with whom he'd had major falling outs with) wouldn't play ball. So he RERECORDED the entire thing and released it himself, without their permission. And to quote RAH, "no huhu". Now, if *YOU* want to record your own version of "Cars" and release it, you have to obtain permission. And to do that, you have to talk to Gary Numan and/or his agent, and *NOT* Beggars Banquet. The same would hold true if you're making distinctive rings for Nokia cellphones and wanted to include "Cars" (I think one company has already done this, actually). But beware: there are seperate copyrights involved for the music and the lyrics, and sometimes one publisher only has the rights to one or the other. If you're making distinctive-ring music for Nokia cellphones, make sure you've secured the rights from the publisher of the MUSIC and not just the LYRICS. / From the messy desktop of Joey Lindstrom / Visit The NuServer! http://www.GaryNumanFan.NU / Visit The Webb! http://webb.GaryNumanFan.NU / / All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs / synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats. The lady across the hall tried to / rob a department store... With a pricing gun... She said, "Give me all / of the money in the vault, or I'm marking down everything in the store." / --Steven Wright ** Tag(s) inserted by Bandit Tagger98 - http://www.gbar.dtu.dk/~c918704 - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 23 Aug 2000 09:24:16 -0400 From: Frank Messere Subject: AT&Ts contribution to network radio Hi: I'm researching AT&T's contribution to network radio after it sold WEAF to RCA. I'm particularly interesting in any interesting stories about heroic efforts by AT&T to help out radio broadcasters, little know facts, etc. I'm writing a peice for the Encyclopedia of Radio and I'd appreciate any help you could give me. thanks, Fritz Messere Fritz Messere http://www.oswego.edu/~messere Chair, Comm Studies mailto:messere@oswego.edu 315 341 2357 - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 23 Aug 2000 10:49:53 -0400 From: RegrettableError@netscape.net Subject: 800 Number portability If you're trying to repoint the 800 number, you can get a new resporg to carry the traffic for you: the per-minute cost variance is unlikely to be more than the cost of backhauling PRI's. Am I missing something? Bill W. Jim Jordan wrote: In article <1r7uos0ln2phb2er6a5khtf5fa8i65060m@4ax.com>, W.D. \"Bill\" Garfield wrote: >Resporg is QWEST and they have been contacted and trouble tickets >opened. The 800 service still does not work. >A satellite office of mine in Oklahoma (also with Qwest as their >carrier) also cannot reach any of the ported numbers. >Sounds like a conspiracy to me. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. They may not be out to get you, just incompetent enough to not give you what you contracted for. >However, the burned child fears the fire. Lesson learned. I'm getting >ready to move an entire trading floor later this year or early next. >from the experience gained here it would appear that we should forget >number porting and in lieu thereof simply have the new PRI trunks >backhauled into the present host CO. Hang the cost, those numbers >simply must work. Yep. If you want it done well, it will cost you. But if you can't afford the cost of it failing, the extra cost will eventually wind up being just noise. - ---------- Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail/ - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 23 Aug 2000 11:20:49 -0400 From: "Wineburgh, Joseph \(Exchange\)" Subject: Acceptable international DS3 error rates We are in the process of testing an international DS3 (clear channel, electrical coax interface) between NY USA & London UK and are getting the following error rates; > 50 frame losses over 3 days > 2000 bit errors over 24 hr period. > I was wondering if anyone knew (or know of resources that show) acceptable levels of error for this type of connection. Please respond to my local email jwineburgh@bear.com as well as the group. Thanks in advance. #JOE *********************************************************************** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. *********************************************************************** - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 23 Aug 2000 12:13:55 -0400 From: tbetz@panix.com (Tom Betz) Subject: Re: Passionate reactions online to the DVD decision Quoth Monty Solomon in : |Passionate reactions online to the DVD-copying decision | |(IDG) -- Online reaction has been voluminous and passionate since a |federal court ruling last week that bars a hacker Web site from |posting or linking De-Content Scrambling System (DeCSS) software, |which decrypts DVDs (digital video discs). | |http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/08/22/decss.reactions.idg/index.html The big problem is with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act itself. The law permits DVD manufacturers to, for example, require you to watch all the commercials at the beginning of a DVD before you can watch the movie (as is the case with the "The Sixth Sense" -- you have to watch six minutes' worth of commercials with skip and fast-forward disabled) -- setting ridiculous terms for something YOU HAVE ALREADY PAID FOR. It leads to the kind of corporate arrogance expressed by Steve Heckler of Sony in the story at . '"Sony is going to take aggressive steps to stop this," Heckler told the Summer Forty-Niner. "We will develop technology that transcends the individual user. We will firewall Napster at source -- we will block it at your cable company, we will block it at your phone company, we will block it at your [Internet-service provider]. We will firewall it at your PC."' Or, as in the case of DeCSS, "We will NOT permit you to watch your DVD on a Linux-based PC." - -- |I always wanted to be someone,| Tom Betz, Generalist | |but now I think I should have | Want to send me email? FIRST, READ THIS PAGE: | |been a wee bit more specific. | | | | YO! MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS HEAVILY SPAM-ARMORED! | - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 23 Aug 2000 12:13:54 -0400 From: tbetz@panix.com (Tom Betz) Subject: Is anyone using 3Com NBX 100 or NBX 25? I'm interested in general impressions, sound quality, reliability; I'm particularly interested in the "plug a phone into any router and you are connected from anywhere on the Internet" feature. Are they doing some sort of VPN thing to do this? Thanks. - -- |I always wanted to be someone,| Tom Betz, Generalist | |but now I think I should have | Want to send me email? FIRST, READ THIS PAGE: | |been a wee bit more specific. | | | | YO! MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS HEAVILY SPAM-ARMORED! | - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 23 Aug 2000 14:36:57 -0400 From: Joel B Levin Subject: Re: Passionate reactions online to the DVD decision In <8o0st0$36h$1@news.panix.com>, tbetz@panix.com (Tom Betz) wrote: }The big problem is with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act itself. The }law permits DVD manufacturers to, for example, require you to watch all }the commercials at the beginning of a DVD before you can watch the movie }(as is the case with the "The Sixth Sense" -- you have to watch six minutes' }worth of commercials with skip and fast-forward disabled) -- setting ridiculous }terms for something YOU HAVE ALREADY PAID FOR. Hmmm. I don't recall ever being forced to watch the ads, not that I've rented or bought that many movies with ads. I have rented THE SIXTH SENSE. I have always been able to skip (i.e. chapter forward) through the ads. The legal notices and what we used to call "the FBI warning" are another story, though. Even the stop button is disabled :-(. /JBL - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 23 Aug 2000 15:40:54 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Statement by the Press Secretary on Verio Acquisition http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/2000/8/23/5.text.1 THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary (South Brunswick, New Jersey) ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release August 23, 2000 STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY President Clinton has decided against intervening in the proposed acquisition of Verio, Inc. (Verio), an Englewood, Colorado Internet Service Provider (ISP), by NTT Communications Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT). NTT is a Japanese corporation, majority owned and controlled by the Government of Japan. The President based his decision on the results of the investigation of this transaction by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), an 11-agency group chaired by Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. CFIUS conducted a thorough investigation of various national security issues related to the transaction. As a result of the investigation and negotiations with NTT Communications and Verio, any national security issues that may have been presented by this transaction have been resolved. The Verio/NTT investigation was the first one involving the foreign acquisition of a U.S. ISP conducted under the Exon-Florio provision of the Defense Production Act of 1950. This provision, which became law in 1988, authorizes the President to investigate and, if necessary, to suspend or prohibit a proposed foreign acquisition of a U.S. company engaged in U.S. interstate commerce. The provision provides certain criteria the President must meet to suspend or prohibit a transaction. He must find: -- there is credible evidence that leads the President to believe that the foreign interest exercising control might take action that threatens to impair national security, and -- provisions of law, other than the Exon-Florio provision and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, do not in the President's judgment provide adequate and appropriate authority for the President to protect the national security in the present matter. 30-30-30 - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 23 Aug 2000 16:23:56 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Akamai caught in Net filtering cross fire Akamai caught in Net filtering cross fire By Paul Festa Staff Writer, CNET News.com August 22, 2000, 6:00 p.m. PT update Networking firm Akamai has been dragged into the censorware debate, thanks to a hole affecting Web site blocking software that exploits the company's data delivery system. Many consumers and businesses use filters to prevent children and employees from accessing certain sites, such as those with sexual content. But under the workaround, such sites are accessible by tacking the location onto the end of another address. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2586200.html - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 23 Aug 2000 16:42:38 -0400 From: Bennett Haselton Subject: CYBERsitter responds to Akamai backdoor [sent to journalists on Peacefire's press contacts list] CYBERsitter has issued a press release at http://peacefire.org/censorware/CYBERsitter/pr-akamai.8-23-2000.txt denying that the Peacefire Akamai workaround, described at: http://www.peacefire.org/bypass/Proxy/akamai.html allows a user to disable CYBERsitter. Since CYBERsitter relies mainly on keyword filtering, a quick check revealed that they do block most sites that go through Akamai, but it's a moot point since you can easily disable CYBERsitter by changing the registry value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\ Control\SecurityProviders\Net98\E00 from "1" to "0". This trick has been on our Web site since 1999; CYBERsitter is actually the easiest of all the blocking programs to disable. Their press release says that with the Akamai trick, "Virtually all of the major Internet filtering products including Cyber Patrol, Surfwatch, Net Nanny and N2H2/Bess can be rendered virtually useless". People who live in glass houses... CYBERsitter originally gained notoriety in the "censorware" market, even among advocates of blocking software, for their right-wing philosophy, blocking sites such as NOW.org and GLAAD.org as pornography. The pro-censorware site FilteringFacts.org once complained that the censorware industry had gotten a bad rep in some circles because of the actions of this "one company". (Of course, a private company can block whatever they want, but the question is, can you make the local library put CYBERsitter on their computers, if you just put it on your home machine and you don't want "alternatives" to be available?) The company's later actions included blocking Time Magazine after Time criticized their blocking policies: http://www.time.com/time/digital/daily/0,2822,12392,00.html and email-bombing one lady who wrote to them with a complaint about their blocking practices: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,10170,00.html Focus on the Family used to re-sell their product, but reportedly severed ties with CYBERsitter after their behavior started to get embarrassing. -Bennett bennett@peacefire.org http://www.peacefire.org (425) 649 9024 - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 23 Aug 2000 17:34:36 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: New law gives genetic privacy protection New law gives genetic privacy protection By Raja Mishra, Globe Staff, 8/23/2000 Lieutenant Governor Jane Swift yesterday signed into law a sweeping set of genetic privacy protections, placing the human genetic code alongside race, religion, and ethnicity in the canon of civil rights. The new law prohibits the use of genetic tests to discriminate against anyone trying to get health insurance, apply for a job, obtain a loan, or any other activity already protected by traditional antidiscrimination laws. http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/236/metro/New_law_gives_genetic_privacy_protection+.shtml - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 23 Aug 2000 18:22:21 -0400 From: Alan Boritz Subject: Re: CMA cancels show, fires staff On 13 Aug 2000 21:18:23 -0400, adamg@world.std.com (Adam M Gaffin) wrote: >NEW YORK - One of the nation's oldest user groups for network >professionals this week suffered a major blow as it was forced to cancel >its annual convention. > >The move by the Communications Managers Association, a 52-year-old >group that represents corporate users in the Northeast, is the latest in a >string of recent problems affecting traditional telecom user groups with a >voice communications heritage. > >http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2000/0811cma.html There's more. In an 8/7/00 letter, CMA president Charles Murray also explained that the CMA did not have the cash to immediately repay funds collected for booth space. The low booth sales, to which Murray attributed the cash crunch, wasn't unexpected, considering the CMA's steadily dwindling interest in stimulating vendor interest. I remember when the show was big at the Nassau Coliseum, and big enough to fill all exhibition floors at the NY Hilton. Last year's show barely filled one floor, and what was there wasn't real interesting. - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. 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