Comments on: Gutting Net neutrality http://www.p2pnet.net/story/8638 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:43:11 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/8638/comment-page-1#comment-39226 Reader's Write Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:37:06 +0000 #comment-39226 This is just crazy to me, but as I look at it from the ISPs, what a perfect scheme. I know they (the ISPs) must be hurting, with US internet ussage the highest its ever been, with more homes having access to broadband and highspeed internet, and the cost for such services around $50 a month, it must be hard for the ISPs to turn a profit. As a consumer, the way I look at is they are providing me a transport medium, the actual physical layer of the OSI model, thats all I want. Now if I choose to use that medium to access the web, email, ftp, telnet, p2p, newsgroups, streaming audio, streaming video, VOIP, or whatever service I wish to access or host, should not be controlled by the ISPs. I dont pay them to be the Nanny, to censor what information I request, nor do I have any intention to pay them more to access certain sites. This could be a blow, but I have faith that if it were to occur, the computer elite will create and publish new software for workarounds or even entire new services (examples are p2p networks) that will be able to circumvent this, rendering the ISPs efforts useless and non-cost productive. Hopefully, it will never come to that. This is just crazy to me, but as I look at it from the ISPs, what a perfect scheme. I know they (the ISPs) must be hurting, with US internet ussage the highest its ever been, with more homes having access to broadband and highspeed internet, and the cost for such services around $50 a month, it must be hard for the ISPs to turn a profit. As a consumer, the way I look at is they are providing me a transport medium, the actual physical layer of the OSI model, thats all I want. Now if I choose to use that medium to access the web, email, ftp, telnet, p2p, newsgroups, streaming audio, streaming video, VOIP, or whatever service I wish to access or host, should not be controlled by the ISPs. I dont pay them to be the Nanny, to censor what information I request, nor do I have any intention to pay them more to access certain sites. This could be a blow, but I have faith that if it were to occur, the computer elite will create and publish new software for workarounds or even entire new services (examples are p2p networks) that will be able to circumvent this, rendering the ISPs efforts useless and non-cost productive. Hopefully, it will never come to that.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/8638/comment-page-1#comment-39181 Reader's Write Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:15:18 +0000 #comment-39181 yeah BUT if it happens, it makes the internet (as provided by a non-neutral ISP) useless to me... therefore I drop my account and tell the ISP to go screw themselves and why I fired them. yeah BUT if it happens, it makes the internet (as provided by a non-neutral ISP) useless to me… therefore I drop my account and tell the ISP to go screw themselves and why I fired them.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/8638/comment-page-1#comment-39175 Reader's Write Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:22:48 +0000 #comment-39175 Major ISPs rigging the playing field for only the highest-paying and "government approved" sites. This is exactly what the current administration WANTS. If their corporate media buddies usurp control of the net then the guv has whatever strings it needs available to pull at any point. There will be no stopping this. Short of incumbent lawmakers loosing elections over it (which AIN'T gonna happen...) this thing is a done deal. It's just a matter of time. Other nets may spring up to soften the blow, but the "net as we know it" is DOOMED. Public opinion? US lawmakers standing up for the public good? Right.... Sorry to be negative about it, but that's the way I see it. Major ISPs rigging the playing field for only the highest-paying and “government approved” sites.

This is exactly what the current administration WANTS. If their corporate media buddies usurp control of the net then the guv has whatever strings it needs available to pull at any point. There will be no stopping this. Short of incumbent lawmakers loosing elections over it (which AIN’T gonna happen…) this thing is a done deal. It’s just a matter of time. Other nets may spring up to soften the blow, but the “net as we know it” is DOOMED. Public opinion? US lawmakers standing up for the public good? Right….

Sorry to be negative about it, but that’s the way I see it.

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