The Electronic Freedom Foundation points out that the proposed FCC net neutrality policy allows the same thing they stopped two years ago -- namely, the lawful use of downloading services. They're asking us to sign a petition:

Remember what put the debate over net neutrality into high gear? In 2007, EFF and the Associated Press confirmed suspicions that Comcast was clandestinely blocking BitTorrent traffic. It was one of the first clear demonstrations that ISPs are technologically capable of interfering with your Internet connection, and that they may not even tell you about it. After receiving numerous complaints, the FCC in 2008 stepped in and threw the book at Comcast, requiring them to stop blocking BitTorrent. The Comcast-BitTorrent experience put net neutrality at the top of the FCC agenda.

Yet now that the FCC has formally issued draft net neutrality regulations, they have a huge copyright loophole in them — a loophole that would theoretically permit Comcast to block BitTorrent just like it did in 2007 — simply by claiming that it was "reasonable network management" intended to "prevent the unlawful transfer of content."

You heard that right — under these conditions, the new proposed net neutrality regulations would allow the same practices that net neutrality was first invoked to prevent, even if these ISP practices end up inflicting collateral damage on perfectly lawful content and activities.

When we saw the loophole, we had to ask ourselves, "Is this real net neutrality?" And the answer was simply, "No." The entertainment industry is already pressuring ISPs to become copyright cops. Carving a copyright loophole in net neutrality would leave your lawful activities at the mercy of overbroad copyright filtering schemes, and we already have plenty of experience with copyright enforcers targeting legitimate users by mistake, carelessness, or design.

If net neutrality regulations are to be taken seriously at all, then the loophole must be closed. Sign the petition to demand real net neutrality from the FCC.

Lou Dobbs: Judy's Knight in Shinning Armor

Judy gave an interview to Lou and was he ever angry at Fitzgerald.

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Dobbs: I will not forgive Fitzgerald for what he did to you. I think it is an onerous, disgusting abuse of government power, and that of Judge Hogan, straightforwardly.

Judy on Prison: ...the most soulless place I had ever been....It was demeaning. It was degrading. It was very lonely."

Atrios says: Who knows how lives could've been improved if Judy had spent her time covering prison conditions rather than pushing phantom threats."

Jeralyn wrote a huge review on Judy's spot: Judith Miller Talks to Lou Dobbs

I have five of them pumping so please be patient if it takes a little longer than normal to access a video.

(Please no Bittorrent responses.)

Techs are looking into it. Everything was working fine. Some are working and some aren't. The incredible traffic that has been generated the last week has caused more problems then we had hoped. We jumped from 70,000 hits a day to over 200,000. I'll keep you posted... I'm getting more servers online soon, (we have six right now) and I'm looking into Bittorrent and all the other alternatives. Please be patient.

(Update)-The videos seem to be coming up now. They are taking time to load so let it sit there for a bit and then you'll see the download come up.

I don't know a lot about Bittorent, but here's some information that emailer Doug sent:

BitTorrent clients: BitTorrent http://www.bittorrent.com/

Azureus http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

Video players: VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

(Justgoing off some of the comments--there seems to be some confusion fromsome of the users and this might help...) Please feel free to add othertips... http://www.bitcomet.com/

Barack Obama was a guest on This Week, andhe was very candid in his feeling about the differences and perceptionsregarding race in America and the response to Katrina.

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(Rough transcript-anyone want to write one up?)

Barack: I think it points to one of the bigproblems in this administration. They have excellent responses when itcomes to PR, more detachment and less effectiveness when it comes togoverning. I think that's been true in Iraq, it's been true across theboard. A good example of this-We had a cabinet meeting this week, thesenators had eight cabinet members, Donald Rumsfeld, Michael Chertoff.What was striking was even if people were reading the statistics of allthe evacuations that had taken place-were telling us of all thewonderful things that have been done. There was no sense of reflection,no sense that ahhh things didn't go the way they were supposed to andthat we needed to take away....There was a terrific spin operation, butnot the kind of soul searching that I 'd think you'd want to see...fromany administration..."

He points out the widening divide in America between the rich and the poor.

Roberts Hearing Video Highlights

Countdown put together a little montage of the proceedings today.

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Keith Olbermann always does a great job putting up a highlight reel for us to see.

That rightie Jeff Goldstein has his own take on Chuck Schumer.

Howard Dean on Hannity and Colmes

Howard Dean made a surprise appearance on H&C 9/13. Alan Colmes did a one on one interview and Dean came out firing against the administration.

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He answered many of Alan's questions without giving them the Ken "Talking Points action figure" Mehlman treatment.

Booman Tribune has a diary up: "The video of Howard Dean's appearance on Hannity & Colmes last night is the second most-watched video at the entire Fox News site." There's much of the transcript there.

Condi and the Latte Defense

Condi Rice was on The Factor last night and had this little repartee with Bill O'Reilly:

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O’Reilly: The truth of the matter is our correspondents at Fox News can’t go out for a cup of coffee in Baghdad....

Rice: Bill, that’s tough. It’s tough. But what — would they have wanted to have gone out for a cup of coffee when Saddam Hussein was in power?

Bill: No, no-but after three years you expect a little security in the country...

Condi: ...there is security...

Bill: They can't get coffee...

"FEMA is a shell of its' former self."

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(Hat tip David) Is the Bittorrent working out ok?