The whole net neutrality issue has been looming for so long that you've probably started to tune it out, especially because it seems like there's probably a Venn diagram overlap with Edward Snowden cosplayers. But it is a Big Deal and probably something you should be caring about and all that, even though it is all you can do to get through the day without a drink or a nap. Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit
This was an excellent piece. I now understand that I will either have to shell out globs of cash or ditch Netflix,You-tube, online games etc. So the free market wins again, right ? Right ? This is good news for Blockbuster. Oh wait.
I think that it is quite likely that now that the decision has been handed down, the FCC will act quickly to remedy the situation and reassert control over internet service. One positive outcome of this decision is that it raises awareness of and really dramatizes the need for net neutrality. This is something that until now has been little more than a vague, nebulous concept in most people's minds. I don't think that anyone really wants to see broadband internet service devolve into a cable TV-style model, in which your ISP offers customers a "basic package" of websites when they sign up for basic, plain vanilla broadband access, and then offers several higher-priced tiers of service that allow the subscriber to connect to "premium web sites" like, say, Netflix or Pandora.
The bill from Hades will be even higher if it interferes with people's ability to 3D-print custom versions of certain, um, adult novelty items.
We're fucked- this will get lost amongst the lobbyists and we'll be paying per MB and we'll have our speeds throttled for youtube and netflix any every other bandwidth hungry service unless we bend over and pay a King's ransom to the carriers
Trying to stockpile cat videos is like trying to stockpile potato chips - no matter how many you have, you know at some point you'll break down and go through them all, and then what?
Penis pump story thataway ---->
This was an excellent piece. I now understand that I will either have to shell out globs of cash or ditch Netflix,You-tube, online games etc. So the free market wins again, right ? Right ? This is good news for Blockbuster. Oh wait.
I think that it is quite likely that now that the decision has been handed down, the FCC will act quickly to remedy the situation and reassert control over internet service. One positive outcome of this decision is that it raises awareness of and really dramatizes the need for net neutrality. This is something that until now has been little more than a vague, nebulous concept in most people's minds. I don't think that anyone really wants to see broadband internet service devolve into a cable TV-style model, in which your ISP offers customers a "basic package" of websites when they sign up for basic, plain vanilla broadband access, and then offers several higher-priced tiers of service that allow the subscriber to connect to "premium web sites" like, say, Netflix or Pandora.
The bill from Hades will be even higher if it interferes with people's ability to 3D-print custom versions of certain, um, adult novelty items.
One that will, say, give you a call the following day? One that, in contrast to Big Red, allows you to keep at least a few tiny shreds of dignity?
Oh, they've always known about it. In fact they invented it. Now they will be able to get away with using it.
not that it's very hard for them right now...
400GB? He'd have to download the entire internet...
I bet the fuck weasels at Time Warner are already having celebration drinks over this.
We're fucked- this will get lost amongst the lobbyists and we'll be paying per MB and we'll have our speeds throttled for youtube and netflix any every other bandwidth hungry service unless we bend over and pay a King's ransom to the carriers
Technically speaking, isn't the internet made up of cats and porn? I mean what else is there?
Trying to stockpile cat videos is like trying to stockpile potato chips - no matter how many you have, you know at some point you'll break down and go through them all, and then what?