Originally Posted By: Nick R
Originally Posted By: hatt
Originally Posted By: dishdude
So every website is supposed to start their own internet service?
Yeah, when they make up 35% of the bandwidth of the internet.
http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/net...udy-1201360914/
So explain to me then, where the money that _I_ as a TWC customer pay, is supposed to be going? You are basically saying that it shouldn't go to improving the infrastructure.
here is the deal.
You, me, and everyone else pay their ISP a fee to provide access to the internet. PERIOD. We do not pay them a fee so that they can maybe if they feel like it offer us internet access. I pay $65 so they provide me a gateway to the entire internet. I should be able to use my internet connection for whatever I want. Whether that be streaming videos, downloading anime, posting on BITOG, chatting on IRC, or looking at pictures of cats. I, and millions of other customers pay our ISP to provide us that service. That is their JOB. TO PROVIDE INTERNET TO US, Why people think they should be allowed to take our money and pick and choose what we get based on what they feel is in their interests is beyond me.
You've never been denied access to all those things. You may one day be denied access. If ISP's are required to deliver at max speed anything a huge corp can get into the pipe you'll probably have a hard time getting through to little sites that don't employ huge amounts of lobbyists and lawyers. It's fairly certain the big streaming services will use up almost all of the entire internet traffic in the near future. Other stuff will be an afterthought.
I'm not a big fan of ISPs so that's why I'm against this bill. It will give the big ISPs much more power since it will keep competition out of the market. The utopia you see on the horizon is a mirage. Like getting back at insurance companies by requiring everyone to buy insurance. Name one thing the government got involved in where prices went down, or stayed the same, and quality went up? Never happened. What we'll get is slower internet and higher costs. The next gen content providers are going to be screwed as well. No one will be building the next gen networks.