[X4U] OT:Net Neutrality: R.I.P.

[Eddie Hargreaves]

I don¹t think you¹re 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
won¹t speed up the downloads you get from competing services because Comcast
wants those competitors to pay them to make their content available to you.


On 7/8/07 5:29 AM, Neil <lists at mac.com> wrote:

> 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.  ;-)
> 
> On Jul 7, 2007, at 9:03 PM, nk wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 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.

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