huffingtonpost.com — Big Media has made its deal with broadband ISPs like Comcast to make sure its Internet video gets priority A-1 Express Lane carriage over the Internet. In exchange, they are supporting the ISPs' fierce opposition to net neutrality rules that would bar them from pushing everyone else's video into the Bus Lane...
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randumbusernameApr 27, 2008
what i find interesting is people always hand government the knife that's later used to slice their throats. think the cbs superbowl incident was a bunch of hoopla over nothing. well give government more power over internet and it soon will start regulating content -- it's the natural progression. you're better off getting off your ass doing something like creating a business to counter other businesses. you're better off contributing capital to companies you support. government creates these 1-2 monopoly/duopolies with subsidies and regulations then later on down the line it comes back to bite you in the ass. you're going see this happen with the "green" push by government come back to bite you in the ass in a couple years. and the answer never is always "more government" which creates more problems. it becomes a self-sustaining cycle of getting f**ked in the ass.
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33percentgodApr 27, 2008
I'm goddamn TIRED OF THIS. You f**king corporations want to own every last physical piece of material on this planet from the skyscrapers to the last grain of f**king SAND. I'm writing my senator now about this issue. I wrote my representatives about using paper ballots in the election and sure enough at the primaries there were paper and pens to cast our votes,so he does respond and keep his people happy.Suddenly cashing my tax return and buying a 12 gauge doesn't seem like such a bad idea.
bitcloudApr 28, 2008
Well it's a double edged sword in a lot of ways... any time someone uses the term "free-market" be sceptical because it suggests that the government is not allowed to weigh in the market (ie that the government is not allowed to be a market force)if the market is to be "free" you don't have "free-market" legislation... you just have a free market...
risingashesApr 28, 2008
He'd make a great overseer and a horrible President.I envy people that are able to look at his policies and believe they make any kind of sense.
johnmearnsApr 28, 2008
The thing that I think is a problem is that people don't want unregulated anything. Take VOIP for example. When I signed up for my first voip account it was exactly what it was supposed to be. Cheap supplemental phone service where I decided exactly what I wanted. In the last few years the natural instinct of people to "fix" things with some legislation has changed that thought. My cheap $20 a month bill is now about $30 a month after a variety of taxes and fees have been applied for the common good. If my unregulated voip carrier fell into the abyss of regulation in that short of a time, is there a compelling reason to think people would let a low cost network infrastructure thrive without regulating the crap out of it too? I think net neurtrality is a prime example of people wanting to regulate something to "fix" a system seems to be working out very well. Until that drive disappears from most people I think the dream of low cost low regulation infrastructure is just that.
jessehaddenApr 28, 2008
Piracy refers to the act of a studio profiting off of an artists' work without properly compensating the artist. Now the studios want the exclusive fast track to keep on pirating the work of their talent, meanwhile saying it's to prevent individuals from engaging in some warped definition of "piracy." You gotta love it.
yurisakazakiMay 1, 2008
It's ridiculous to think that ISPs will willingly do anything that won't help their bottom line, unfortunately. Look at Virgin, they literally swear in the face of fair networks.