Add Sen. John Kerry to the list of people irritated with Comcast for its antics this week at an FCC hearing in Cambridge. Blogging in the Huffington Post, Kerry criticized Comcast for packing the audience with supporters by paying line-standers to reserve seats in the room for Comcast employees.

Despite its disastrous debut last month, Qtrax's CEO Allan Klepfisz is continuing to tout the company's upcoming music download service as if nothing is amiss....

A federal district court's broad order shutting down Wikileaks.org has been widely -- and justifiably -- criticized for violating the First Amendment. Now, a host of civil rights groups and news organizations are getting involved in the case, arguing that the order violates the free speech rights of people who post to the site as well as people who read it.

Net neutrality advocates are cheering remarks Federal Communications Commission members made Monday at a hearing at Harvard Law School.

Congressman Ed Markey today urged the Federal Communications Commission to be very wary of companies' statements that they slow traffic to peer-to-peer sites in order to manage traffic on their network. "We want to look back years from now and look back and be able to celebrate that this is no country for old bandwidths," he said, adding that the FCC shouldn't stand by while there's a "transformation of Bit Torrent into Bit Trickle."

A U.K. lawmaker this week threatened to introduce a bill requiring Internet service providers to crack down on piracy unless the companies voluntarily take steps to stop it. That move follows a new "three strikes" law in France that requires Internet access companies to cut off users who engage in piracy three times. These kinds of laws might sound good to record labels or movie studios, but implementing them is another matter.

Google today unveiled a pilot program that enables people to store and share information about their medical conditions online.

Video ad network VideoEgg said it will implement a new pricing system that charges marketers only when users initiate an ad and watch it for a brief time. Previously, the company sold ads on a cost-per-thousand impression basis.

In a case that has free speech advocates fuming, a federal district court judge in San Francisco issued an order directing the site Wikileaks, which hosts "secret" documents submitted by whistleblowers, to remove all information relating to the Swiss bank Julius Baer.

News Corp. is in talks with the major labels to start distributing music for free, paidContent reports.