[ivwshane]

http://www.networkingpipeline.com/bl...ee_ride_f.html


My only hope is that maybe the quote was taken out of context.


If any telco tried to pull this shit I would have to become my own ISP.

[Undertaker989]

I'm going to have my roomates browse to AT&T's website and then sue them b/c their advertising content flowed through my home network and claim I didn't approve of it.

[MSP]

Fucking sad. It's greedy, but the worst part is it's ignorant! Hands up for those who would pay extra for such content? I didn't think so. Maybe Google will pay them off, but I doubt it. They don't need to pander to a single ISP operated by a moron.

[ivanolo]

Gotta love corporate America....

[trancosrt]

I've read about it in \. a few days ago and the general concensus was that the guys were out of their minds and that the noise people will make if this ever flies would force FCC to shut them down. Is insane for them to be paid twice for the exact same service. For what I remember, the main argument against this went in the lines of "Content provider pay their ISP(s) so that anybody can connect to their servers. These ISPs have different agreements with other ISPs and backbone owners to route traffic from the client to server. From this, you can get that the AT&T and others will be asking to be paid TWICE (if not more!!) for the providing the same service if anything!!"
I mean, their (ISPs) customers already pay them to access websites (and as far as I know, there is nothing like a blacklist of websites we can't go to or we have to pay extra to access) and they want the Webistes to pay THEM AGAIN for the same thing??? Sounds almost like blackmail!!

Personally, I don'k think Google or any other big provider would comply, and if the ISPs ever implement this, the second day a customer can't access Google (or whatever website), he/she will be raising hell to the ISPs for blocking access to information, blocking Free speech and whatever other thing we can think of. The telco's will drop the sytem pretty quick! I know who do I have to call If suddenly I can't access Google.
Even if this dosn't happen, google will have their own arses covered because they will speed their FREE internet access (remember the rumor of how they been silently buying miles of optical fiber lines and proposed free WIFI access in some cities like San Francisco?)

[Goofus Maximus]

They are feeling threatened, since the main reason they're improving broadband availability and speed, is so they can pump their own offerings through it, such as Digital Television and Radio, and Internet Telephony, with price points for each "value added" service. They don't want someone else using this bandwidth to compete with their own offerings!

This is why I think Content and Delivery should be kept entirely separate by law, since it's a form of "vertical integration" monopoly of the sort that was broken up in other industries like the Automobile Industry.

[ninefivezero]

Originally Posted by ivanolo

Gotta love corporate America....

There are thiefs and crooks in every sector of America...

[ivwshane]

damn it

[ivwshane]

Originally Posted by ninefivezero

There are thiefs and crooks in every sector of America...

Some are just legally allowed to be crooks.

[Goofus Maximus]

The richest crooks can "Abramoff" the Congressional legislative process in their favor. They're not crooks if they can pay their congresscritter to make it legal! The current "reforms" being offered in Congress are just window-dressing. We're asking the addicts to cut off their own supply...