Laughing Man
Stand Alone Complex
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join:2008-03-17
Louisville, KY
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| Small Online Businesses Need Network Neutrality
I'm a Machinima Producer, I make videos using video games and stream them off of my partner's website. If more of these major ISP's start/continue to discourage online video content I'm afraid I'll have to stop my own business since there will be few to no customers left  So I would really like to see something done favorably for Network Neutrality. That said I think it will get butchered if this goes through congress. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA | Network neutrality is about not discriminating against certain protocols, not about capping your bandwidth or data transfers. I think you'll be disappointed if any network neutrality legislation is proposed. |
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morbo
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join:2002-01-22
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·AT&T Southwest
| it's actually both. because if you control one, you essentially control the other.
it is interesting to see the talking points against network neutrality begin to make the distinction here. to say that capping is not about network neutrality is to make a strong case in the interest of cableco and telco and against consumers and businesses not providing dumb pipe. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
·AT&T Southeast
| said by morbo  :it's actually both. because if you control one, you essentially control the other. Not really. Net neutrality discussions revolve around improper filtering and/or prioritization of traffic. Capping is about managing quantity.said by morbo :to say that capping is not about network neutrality is to make a strong case in the interest of cableco and telco and against consumers and businesses not providing dumb pipe. Why is capping/metering a strong case against a "dumb pipe"? ISPs can remain a "dumb pipe" and still cap/meter service while maintaining protocol/traffic neutrality. |
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funchords
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join:2001-03-11
Washington, DC
·Verizon Online DSL
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said by openbox9 :Network neutrality is about not discriminating against certain protocols, not about capping your bandwidth or data transfers. I think you'll be disappointed if any network neutrality legislation is proposed. On a network level, technically, I agree with you. But on a business principles level, when a broadband provider slaps on a 5 GB cap but is in the IP TV business itself, then the effect is the same.
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Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA
 ·Verizon FIOS
| That's the distinction. If the cable programming counted towards your cap then it would be fine. (In that it wouldn't be partial) Otherwise caps really are just limiting non-revenue generating content over revenue generating content. Which is the crux. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
·AT&T Southeast
| said by Ahrenl :If the cable programming counted towards your cap then it would be fine. This I will agree with if you're discussing IPTV competing for the same bandwidth with general Internet traffic. |
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