There’s an easier way. The content owner (Lollapalooza in this case) attaches a contract rider covering delivery of content & prohibition of editting/censoring.

AT&T, as just another conduit, has very little leverage. Agree or we’ll find another conduit.

Why get into a spitting match when you can just pull the whole rug out from under them?

Why would they need to do that? I can’t imagine a contract with AT&T that says ‘We will carry whatever data we want.’. Yes, AT&T probably has exceptions in there for loss of data by accident, but deliberately censoring parts of something are not accidental losses.

Lollapalooza is not stupid, and did not write a contract that allowed AT&T to carry as little of the the concert as they felt like. AT&T is already in breech of the contract, or Lollapalooza was in on the censorship from the start.

The fact that AT&T has become a tool for the Bush Regime is disgusting.

The … is pissed at BP, and so is Pearl Jam. British Petroleum is often looked at as one of the “better” oil companies…one that actually has the environment on their mind.

The BP Whiting Refinery in Indiana …

BP has written their own statement to say that the ammonia levels are still at 50% of the federal standards, and that the change in their output is due to having to process a totally different, and heavier, crude oil.

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Why a different crude? Where’s it coming from?

Another Progressive Congressman falls in line…

Rep. Brian Baird, WA took the trip to Iraq for the horse and pony show and now supports the surge continuing. He’s my rep, so it makes me sad. I need help getting through to him.

http://www.theolympian.com/news/story/192500.html

Skip it and let’s move on to other Republicans to beat. It’s a better bet we’ll get all-around better average government that way.

Yeah yeah, I know. We gotta end the war. But, we’ve still got a lot of other issues such as the ones discussed on this blog, and your guy would probably vote better on those than a Republican.

Told about the market collapse and the drying up of credit and liquidity in all markets- the President exclaimed–”Watch this drive”!

while standing on the back of a boat with a fishin’ pole in his hands…no doubt

Boy- what the landscape of America would look like if Poppy had been sterile.

it’s not too late.

compare & contrast institutional investors in the US using their financial clout to bring about the end of apartheid in SA with student protests in the UC school system objecting to TIAA-CREF and UC endowment investment in Israeli companies to bring about the end of oppression against Palestinians.

Though there are certainly important issues at stake as we seek to expand our broadband networks, Democrats would be well advised not to mimic the Bush administration’s impetuous push for preemptive strikes in the digital world.

What happened to the 11th commandment, eh Mr. Gooper?

neokneme @ 95

Goopers talk the talk…
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Talk about hypothetical…

And we’re, what, 12th in the industrial world for broadband? S Korea gets 30Mb access everywhere for a fraction of the price.

First rule of contracting — Address the client’s weaknesses…