Larry Lessig Explains Network Neutrality, now with slides

Stanford law Prof. Larry Lessig apparently recorded his own testimony at the FCC hearing last week, and sync’d it up with his PowerPoint/Keynote slides into a nice little video that he’s posted to his blog.

I tuned in too late to catch his presentation last Thursday, and the hearing wasn’t even over by the time I needed to have last week’s radioshow finished, so I unfortunately wasn’t able to include any of it in last week’s show. I’m glad that I went back to hear/watch it because it’s a very succinct, yet penetrating summary of the issues at hand. I don’t have time to play the entire thing on this week’s show, but I will be sure to include an excerpt.

You can watch all 25 minutes–with not a minute wasted–after the jump.

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Free Press Live Blogging from Stanford FCC Hearing

Free Press is keeping a live blog of the FCC Hearing on Net Neutrality at Stanford University. Looks like at least 300 people have showed up to be in the audience so far.

I got too hung up with work to tune in right at 2 PM and the FCC’s RealAudio feeds are all full and I unfortunately missed Larry Lessig’s testimony (anyone able to record it?). Luckily there were still streams available at VON TV.

I just heard the rep from the Christian Coalition testify that the King James Bible–I believe that’s in the public domain, no?–is being shared over BitTorrent, therefore also blocked by Comcast. Interesting.