Verizon and Time Warner unveiled their latest anti-piracy plans at a panel discussion hosted by the Internet Society in New York on Thursday.

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Outside of Yangon, the pace of Burmese society slows to a timeless pace -- as do Internet connections.

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So great is the perceived threat of T2 that it has driven Travelocity into the arms of the American Society of Travel Agents, the very fuddy-duddies the Internet was supposed to make obsolete.

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Because that means we will use Internet-based information for many more purposes, which will have a bigger role in society.

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The award follows criticism from the new president of the 360-year-old society, Sir Robert May, that the organisation had overlooked the internet inventor.

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Otherwise, society incurs significant transaction costs for individual users trying to determine their rights to interact with Internet-connected chattel, and overly protective legal doctrines create border cases where users engaged in socially beneficially conduct nevertheless unintentionally commit legal violations.

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In short, the non-proprietary feature of the standards, maintained by volunteer groups of engineers under the mantle of The Internet Society, is what accounts for their phenomenal trajectory and velocity over the last fifteen years.

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