Verizon Rejects Hollywood’s Call to Aid Piracy Fight

Unlike AT&T, Verizon won’t monitor its network to block unauthorized copying. That would violate customer privacy, it says, and would be expensive too.

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Verizon offers 20/20 symmetrical FiOS service

In a huge win for both medical imaging and BitTorrent, 20Mbps symmetrical connections are now available over Verizon’s fiber optic FiOS network. The new $64.95 service may put additional heat on cable companies to offer faster upload speeds.

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Verizon is dropping a lot of DNS requests

Verizon drops 3.14% of all DSL subscribers DNS requests! CNET just rehashed a report that Nominum commissioned to look at the speed and reliability of ISP DNS servers. The verdict won’t shock any of you: ISPs are pretty bad at providing DNS!

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