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2012, the year the Internet ends?
- Thread starter Zero
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Tits are always related
Considering the deal primarily talks about major ISPs, who knows... We might see something better than the Roadrunner we have now but better from a smaller company... I'm looking forward to this to a degree.
I highly doubt Telus and Bell just killed their reputation and did this. There's no way in hell I see this happening. Not only that, they're dead wrong about Telus restricting site access on their unlimited mobile browsing plans. They don't as far as I know.
Why would this happen? They're making enough money on the internet, so there's no reason to shut it down.
I think this presentation is rather sensationalist, but net neutrality is certainly a real issue. Has anyone here heard about Comcast secretly throttling torrent traffic? Slashdot types may know all about it, but most people signing up for internet service aren't going to be aware of that sort of thing, especially when advertisements promise an 'unlimited' connection. It's unlikely that anything like the image on that site will happen, firstly because ordinary web surfing isn't particularly bandwidth intensive and secondly because it would probably cause a huge public backlash. The second part is contigent on the fact that people actually care about net neutrality! On the other hand, I don't doubt that companies are willing to skirt of edge of neutrality when they think they can get away with it, mostly in the name of bandwidth management using 'illegal' content as a scapegoat.
Yeah, and the US government stepped in and made them cut that out.
This sounds scary. I hope it doesn't happen. :'(
I'm sure people wouldn't "go back to their real lives." Considering a lot of people's 'real lives' involve the internet.
They'll just be forced to pay more if something like this did happen.
There's no way this would work without international government cooperation. All it would take is one small, upstart company who provided the "old" internet access to put everyone else completely out of business. This is something that customers, especially tech-savvy ones, do not want in the least. People have proven it impossible to kill peer-to-peer, it will be the same way with the internet.
EXACTLY. I don't see how anyone could possibly think this could happen. Especially because as far as I'm aware, Telus has released no such statement. Hell, Telus is the one major Canadian ISP I know of which doesn't even throttle torrent traffic.
So, we'll all be forced into this? Is there an ISP that has not confirmed this? (Please say Verizon Fios)
And what if you have a contract when this hits? Like if you sign up for a 3 year contract in 2009, and its implemented in 2010?
And what if you have a contract when this hits? Like if you sign up for a 3 year contract in 2009, and its implemented in 2010?
The launching of internet two has been associated with this step of censoring and whoring the internet for money has been know and talked about for years. People are just starting to talk about it know because no longer are "crazy conspiracy theorists" the only ones babbling about this. The internet 2 will come, and the internet will be censored. Its just a matter of how and when.
