Comments on: New RIAA bid to block Net neutrality

By: minkorrh

minkorrh — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:15:10 +0000

If ISP’s are ‘bogged down’ with all these pirates, then shouldn’t they update their infrastructure? Their customers wouldn’t have bought an advertised, unlimited 5 meg service if they were only allowed to use 2megs of it would they? I’m tired of hearing about goofs like these two hollyhomos (my apologies to gays everywhere) using this excuse to further their greed. When I get paid (for a creative job I might add) I get paid once, not over and over every time someone views it. If I create an advertisement I don’t get a royalty. It’s time to shut up and take your fat, greedy asses down to the gun shop, buy one and stick it in your fat trap and pull the trigger. The gravy train is over morons.

By: Brian Jones

Brian Jones — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:30:16 +0000

I guess Mr Barnowl would be quite happy with the ISP situation in Australia then, being so backward and unaffordable. I guess he would try to convince us that it should be that way everywhere, out of “fairness” to us

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:38:07 +0000

If they’re successful, one of two things is gonna happen:

1) Some people are gonna get together and hijack a protocol that is essential, nearly impossible to decrypt, and very tricky to navigate legally given the shear amount of high profile, extremely sensitive information that it’s already used for… *cough* HTTPS *cough*

2) Every switches back to dial-up and lots of businesses relying on downloads (and lots of ISP’s) get royally screwed

There’s probably a few more things, but those two came to mind instantly

By: Rekrul

Rekrul — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:33:09 +0000

I’m surprised that they don’t just lobby for a law that says all ISPs in the US must be turned over to them.

By: Stray Mongrel

Stray Mongrel — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:16:09 +0000

Why would I need to pay for an ISP if I can’t buy what I want?

If I wanted a piss poor internet connection, I’d just link to my neighbors WiFi for occasional browsing, or use AOL. I pay extra to my ISP for unfettered bandwidth, and I expect to get what I paid for.

So if they are able to squelch Net Neutrality, will a market for unfettered ISPs develop? Would people be able to gain internet access somewhere where their data packets are sent to their intended destination, without being screwed with or blocked along the way?

I think this speaks more to the Liberty guaranteed in the Constitution of the United States. The Liberty to reach out with data packets into a new frontier, and explore without being “detained” by people not affiliated with Law Enforcement agencies.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:45:58 +0000

âAnd some prefer to cure congestion with greater efficiency – solving their problem but compounding ours.â

The bastards! How dare they offer the service that their customers want.

Perhaps… just perhaps they could learn something from the business pratices of those it seeks to demonise.

By: Reason

Reason — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:59:01 +0000

Mr. BrainAWOL splurts some nonsense again… *sigh*