Regulating content on the Internet: A new technological perspective
March 2008
A Report for Industry Canada
Gerri Sinclair
Julie Zilber
Ed Hargrave
Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Part I: The Changing Landscape
- Increased Internet Penetration
- Increase in Internet Traffic
- Greater Variety of Internet Connected Devices
- Canadians are Spending More Time and Doing More Online
- The Changing Nature of Internet Traffic
- Conversational & Social Media Sites
- Exponential Growth in Web Hosts and Web Sites
- Real-Time Content Generation
- Web and Email are now Only a Small Percentage of Internet Traffic
- The Internet is a Major Music Source
- Peer-to-Peer File Transfers are Consuming Significant Bandwidth
- Canadians are Accessing Video Online
- IPTV is an Emerging Service in Canada
- Internet has become a Distribution Medium for Radio Broadcasts
- VoIP Usage is growing Rapidly
- E-Commerce is worth $Billions
- Part II: Can we promote or constrain access to content on the Internet in today's world?
- A. Restricting Access to Content
- Automated Content Identification to Restrict or Promote Access
- Approach to Content Identification: Identifying by IP Address
- Approach to Content Identification: Identifying by Location
- Approach to Content Identification: Identifying by Domain Name
- Approach to Content Identification: Identifying Information in Packet Header
- Approach to Content Identification: Low Level Inspection
- After-the-Fact Analysis
- Search Engine Indexing
- How Search Engine Indexing can be used to Filter Content: Search Results Tampering
- B. Promoting Access to Content
- C. The Limits of Technology
- Conclusions
- Appendix A — Author Bios
- Appendix B — List of Interviewees
- Appendix C — IP Packets
- Appendix D — Bytes & Bits
- Appendix E — A Short List of Web Sites with Links to Proxy Servers
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