You could be paying for internet like thisNet neutrality has something I've kept an eye on ever since some American ISP decided to start throttling their customer's internet speeds when they use torrents. They basically made it so that if you tried to seed/upload anything with a torrent your speed would be throttled down to nothing so the ISP can save bandwidth. Now it might not sound like a big issue, yeah sure you can't upload who cares right? But who's to say the ISP will stop there? I mean they could all of a sudden decide to block torrents/torrent sites and just say "oh they were illegal anyway". I don't like the idea of Rogers deciding what I can/can't go to.
The blocking of sites and speed throttling isn't the only thing. I suggest watching/reading these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2XPiqhN_Ns&feature=user
http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality2
Now of course most of it is just speculation with little/no proof, but what they are saying is not at all unreasonable and I can totally see ISPs doing this purely to make more profit. I can't see the internet having much of a future if it actually does go subscriber like TV is.
3 comments:
Hoax. ^_^
Yes the videos have no credibility but net neutrality isn't a hoax. Comcast has been throttling torrent users for almost a year and Telus actually does have a pay per website thing for its mobile browsing. Other ISPs could chose to do the same or more in the future if left unchecked.
Here's a complete list of all big ISPs controlling torrent speeds etc.
http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs
Found it when I was interested in the topic while back, but wasn't surprised to say the least.
And who the hell uses Telus >_>
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