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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / Science and Technology => Topic started by: countzero on June 04, 2008, 09:06:47 AM
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Every significant Internet provider around the globe is currently in talks with access and content providers to transform the internet into a television-like medium: no more freedom, you pay for a small commercial package of sites you can visit and you'll have to pay for seperate subscriptions for every site that's not in the package.
what do you think, how likely is this to happen ?
http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality
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That will never, ever happen. Even if certain providers attempt to do this there will be a massive backlash and users will leave the provider in droves. The provider will go out of business, and providers who allow their users to access any sites they want will take on their business.
I definitely can't see web sites closing down because users are expected to pay to access them.
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moto
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Think about it this way.
Lets say the government (whichever one) decides that it's a good idea for ISPs to charge for a package of web sites and add a premium for extra sites. And they might, since it is a potential revenue earner for them. All the people who are very annoyed by this will go to other providers who provide their service the way they do now. This would be very bad for the ISPs who are charging for web packages, since they will lose customers and risk going out of business. It would also be bad for the government, because they would lose out on revenue, and they don't want companies going bust. So the government would have to legislate to prevent ISPs from giving their users unrestricted access to the web. First of all, this is pretty unethical. Secondly, it would most likely result in an "underground" Internet, outside of government control, which did not have such restrictions. This would be unregulated, so Internet crime such as online fraud and child porn would go up. I don't think any government would want to be responsible for that.
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moto
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well I hope it turns out like you say, but with the current ignorance of the average internet user and misinformation by the cartels, they might actually pull it off ...
'switch the ISP to X(independent small ISP) ? do they have msn and youtube ? we already have them so why bother ?'
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It can't be, because the internet is for porn!
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Cue "Internet v2" :lol:
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Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
It can't be, because the internet is for porn!
It'd be a lot less funny if it's wasn't true ;)
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niklasni1 wrote:
Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
It can't be, because the internet is for porn!
It'd be a lot less funny if it's wasn't true ;)
And I was always thinking the internet was for warez :oops:
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Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
niklasni1 wrote:
Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
It can't be, because the internet is for porn!
It'd be a lot less funny if it's wasn't true ;)
And I was always thinking the internet was for warez :oops:
Everyone has different priorities ;-)
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According to ancient prophecies, the internet will end at 2012 because the whole world will end at this year... Or something like that. :-D