TKJunkMail
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Re: Yes, mmm I see
said by exocet_cm  :I don't understand how VIDEO and IMAGES will cause the Interweb to fail as it is not everybody all the time. Maybe not everybody, thank god, but with P2P apps it is all the time. I have seen numerous posters here crow about how it is their right to download videos/music 24x7 and if the ISP doesn't like it - too bad. And it doesn't even matter if they couldn't possibly look at or listen to all they download in 2 lifetimes. And it is the growing number of people with that attitude that will lead ISP's to start throttling traffic. No matter what some say, the bandwidth resource is not unlimited and it is not free.
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AZinOH
join:2007-04-25
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| What I find difficult to understand is this: On the one hand there are the ISPs complaining about how this flood of downloading is straining their networks and costing them money. On the other hand, there are all these groups just chomping at the bit and rubbing their hands in glee thinking about how they are going to make all this money by selling all this streaming video (baseball-football-basketball) not to mention movies and music. Doesn't the second group know that their business plan is at the mercy of a bandwith supply that the first group can limit at will? Don't these businesses talk to each other? If not they better start and the first thing they should iron out is that if you sell a service that consumes bandwidth, you better be willing to contribute resources necessary to help supply that bandwidth. The customer doesn't deserve to be caught in the middle wanting to pay for both an internet connect and a service he desires only to find that using said service runs him out of an allowed supply of usage. |
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st7860
join:2004-05-13
San Francisco, CA
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said by TKJunkMail :said by exocet_cm :I don't understand how VIDEO and IMAGES will cause the Interweb to fail as it is not everybody all the time. Maybe not everybody, thank god, but with P2P apps it is all the time. I have seen numerous posters here crow about how it is their right to download videos/music 24x7 and if the ISP doesn't like it - too bad. thats right, if the ISP doesn't like it, too bad. |
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Titus Pullo
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join:2004-06-26
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said by AZinOH : Don't these businesses talk to each other? Oh, they'll talk, that's a given. When the goal is to part consumers from their money, it'll not take long for the purveyors of ancillary goods to work towards the common goal of enriching themselves and those they ultimately serve.
No worries there, eh? |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
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said by st7860 :thats right, if the ISP doesn't like it, too bad. Well, considering it's the ISPs' networks, it really isn't too bad. It is their right, and necessity, to manage and control their networks. So, if you as a consumer don't like it, too bad...move on to another network. |
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st7860
join:2004-05-13
San Francisco, CA | no i will not move onto the another network. thats the ISPs problem. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA | Not if they throttle your connection or terminate your service. |
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TScheisskopf
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Belvidere, NJ
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said by Titus Pullo :said by AZinOH : Don't these businesses talk to each other? Oh, they'll talk, that's a given. When the goal is to part consumers from their money, it'll not take long for the purveyors of ancillary goods to work towards the common goal of enriching themselves and those they ultimately serve. No worries there, eh? And who wants most to get their hands on that bandwidth? The television broadcasters, who have been seeing their viewer numbers slip, every year, as High-Speed Internet service becomes more ubiquitous.
The perfect solution for them would be to make sure that the only content available is their content, and they are willing to throw money at that dream. It would turn the internet into The New Cable TV.
And if you think that the present democratized internet and a Broadcast TV internet can co-exist, especially in the eyes of the broadcasters and the infrastructure providers, who have a knee-jerk aversion to infratructure investment, you got another thing coming. |
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