michaelgeist.ca — ISPs are race toward a two-tiered Internet. This article points to examples involving packet preferencing, content blocking, traffic shaping, and public musings about premium charges for faster content downloads. ISPs are now reducing access to peer-to-peer applications, blocking Skype, and, scariest of all, lobbying Congress to let them do it.
Dec 19, 2005 View in Crawl 4
crpietschmannDec 19, 2005
I know if my ISP limits the Internet Content I can Access, then I'll switch ISP's. And, if they all limit the content then I'll figure out a way to start my own ISP. I wont take any crap like this from any ISP.
cliffypDec 19, 2005
why do they want to block skype???
itzacDec 19, 2005
I like your US/China comparison. The business vs. government argument also brings up what is probably the root of the issue. Corporations in the US have almost become the government. Canada is doing a pretty good job of following suit, too. It's strange that Corporations that can't vote in elections seem to have the most pull when it comes to legislation... I'll leave you all to run with that.
darkmaneDec 19, 2005
I know that Comcast blocks certain ports. Back in 2003 I took the day off to play SWG for my birthday and I couldn't. Comcast had blocked the port to thier update server for my entire area of Seattle, they never admitted fault, but as soon as Sony got a patch out that changed the port, everything went back to normal.The second occasion was when I hooked my TiVo up to my home network and wanted to use the photo browsing capabilities, I had not hooked up a router (Insecure and stupid I know, but that was what I had at the time), while I could ping my TiVo, do everything I needed, for some reason the traffic over the port TiVo uses for HME was being blocked.Again, never go them to admit fault, their frontline staff can't tell you which ports are being blocked (They are convinced none are being blocked) but the behavior of the equipment tells a different story.
scbysnxDec 19, 2005
@RobCowie This website is based in the US is you can't figure out that it is assumed that the US is the topic of conversation then maybe you should go bad to grade school. This is in no way an anti-other countries post this is just a plee that you use a little common sense. Furthermore due to the fact that this website is based it the US it should be stated that any link pertaining to occurances outside of the US should be labeled however in the interest of not being a selfish pig please don't give any country labels and allow the people to RTFA before making prior judgement... that would be great
thecabalDec 19, 2005
Way to rip off your summary straight from Slashdot. No Digg for you.
enki25Dec 20, 2005
What's the big deal about not linking to a slashdot story?
freonchillDec 20, 2005
why dont we all setup our own p2p internet w/ the nextgen wireless (wimax = 1mi ?)then we can by pass them all