RE: kreeping the internet free?
July 16, 2014 at 7:07 pm
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2014 at 7:09 pm by Autumnlicious.)
(July 15, 2014 at 10:47 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The Internet providers want to charge the streaming services like Netflix and Youtube more for higher speeds. YOU will pay the cost in terms of higher prices.
Correction: They want to charge Netflix and YouTube more in addition for the bandwidth they already currently pay for.
This is double dipping at its finest.
Currently, you pay the bandwidth provider money for the bandwidth that you use.
The providers want to charge even more. So
What they do is come up with the artifice that because a site is more popular, therefore it should pay even more money in addition to the bandwidth cost that they already are charged for.
They do this because they are too cowardly to negotiate proper service-level contracts with other providers/carriers.
This is directly against the concept of network neutrality – which is that a "bag of bits" that you pay for will be ferried to the destination without regard to what it is. Effectively the US post office of the Internet - you send the letter of a certain size, pay for it, and it will be delivered. It doesn't matter if the letter contains photos of your family reunion or your company secrets. The real world post office does not care, and neither should the virtual equivalent of the post office care.
Network neutrality is a cornerstone of the modern Internet. Every single service depends upon it.
Imagine a world where you have to pay more for the same amount of data simply due to the content of it. That is what the Internet service providers are trying to do
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