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<FONT FACE="Lucida Grande, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>I don’t think you’re quite seeing what the problem can be. If your Internet Service Provider is Comcast, for instance, they can make downloading entertainment from them quite fast for you and subsequently slow down the speed at which you can download content from Apple or Microsoft or anyone else they see as a competitor. No matter what price you pay Comcast, it won’t speed up the downloads you get from competing services because Comcast wants those competitors to pay them to make their content available to you. <BR>
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On 7/8/07 5:29 AM, Neil <lists@mac.com> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Lucida Grande, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>You make it sound like a terrific bargain for me. I get to enjoy faster entertainment and the only downside is that poor people don't get to enjoy it too. I can live with that. ;-)<BR>
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On Jul 7, 2007, at 9:03 PM, nk wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>it might give you faster entertainment, but the overall significance is that those with more money get faster throughput than those with less money, thereby negating the "level playing field" of and equal access to the internet.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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