dunno
@videotron.ca
| give in. end it
This may sound dumb, but I say gieve everyone what they want in regards to the new Media hearings. A 2.5% levy. Lock the levy in for 20-years. The levy then gets spilt between new canadian media and the CRIA/hollywood lobbies. End of story. End of the piracy bullshit.
On the neutrality front, remove the throttle that singles out one protocol, and do more or less what comcast is doing (or said they would do), but only on people who exceed the B/W that comes with their paid for package (after all these ISP's seel a service and advertize a service based on speed and B/W). They should be held accountable to that. |
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Thrudd
join:2004-06-21
Mississauga, ON
| Are you suggesting they use the ]*gasp* model that usenet providers have been using all this time?
Max bandwidth/throughput with a throttle down once a predetermined limit has been reached.
My god man that would make way too much sense and forthought on their part. It will never happen until a government comes in asking nicely while swinging a sledgehammer at all the rats popping up. |
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richard_lau
join:2009-02-10
Austin, TX
| reply to dunno
said by dunno :
On the neutrality front, remove the throttle that singles out one protocol, and do more or less what comcast is doing (or said they would do), but only on people who exceed the B/W that comes with their paid for package (after all these ISP's seel a service and advertize a service based on speed and B/W). They should be held accountable to that.
Great point! Here in the U.S. you have DSL / Cable providers that are selling consumers one service, but delivering another... throttling speeds, subjectively limiting access to parts of the Internet, etc.
Companies such as Comcast don't want their customers connecting to 3rd party content/services, they want them connecting to stuff that's offered by Comcast or Comcast's partners.
By throttling connections, or establishing unreasonable download caps (Time Warner's new plan for 5GB-40GB caps) they're effectively discouraging the use of 3rd party sites.
For what it's worth I thought the following articles we're interesting...
»www.newsadmin.com/usenet_comment···2009.asp
»www.newsadmin.com/usenet_comment···2009.asp |
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