Three-tiered internet
p2pnet.net news:- Is a three-tiered Net on the way?
ISPs may start charging some sites for faster access to customers, says the BBC, quoting Jupiter Research.
This could, “create a ‘two-tiered internet’ which, while making money for providers would risk alienating consumers,” says the report.
“One way of creating a new revenue stream would be to supply faster, prioritised access to a select group of websites willing to pay.”
Meanwhile, innovative Net users around the world, sadly watching what used to be an exciting and unrestricted means of communication being driven inexorably down the drain by steadily increasing advertising pollution and censorship, are developing their own third-tier underground alternative(s).
Like what? Like FreeWans being developed by the Cyber Maquis.
A FreeWan is a network of many home-built ad-hoc networks called cells which can be on a specific FreeWan network, on the Net, or on both, explains William Keeley in a p2pnet post.
“Each cell is like a small community where people share data and information such as video and music in an environment of privacy, unrestricted by bandwidth caps or being forced to pay too much for broadband service.”
Oh, the Horror!
Also See:
BBC – Two-tiered net could be coming, June 26, 2007
advertising pollution and censorship – Censorship threatens Google profits, June 25, 2007
p2pnet – FreeWans: highways to the future, September 24, 2005
If your Net access is blocked by government restrictions, try Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies. Go here for the official download, and here for details. And if you’re Chinese and you’re looking for a way to access independent Internet news sources, try Freegate, the DIT program written to help Chinese citizens circumvent web site blocking outside of China. Download it here.
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Tired of being treated like a criminal? They depend on you, not the other way around. Don’t buy their ‘product’. Do bug your local politicians. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, faxes, IM, stop them in the street, blog. And if you’re into organizing, organize petitions, organize demonstrations and then turn up on your local political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance. Don’t just complain. Do something!
June 27th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Somebody will figure it out one day, decentralized hosting that is, the network holds the site, not a specific address, and when that day comes, these assholes will get a hearty “fuck you!” from their ex costumers.