Re: [MLUG] Oh, no...

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 9 May 2006, Phillip Kelchen wrote:

> Net neutrality is the practice of transmitting all data from all hosts 
> to all clients the same way. The telcos and cable co's want to use QoS 
> to throttle packets from people who do not pay for the privilege of 
> reaching their (paid) subscribers, no matter that the hosts all had to 
> pay somebody for their upload bandwidth anyway.
>
> It's a double-dipping scheme is all it is. The ISPs know that they can't 
> raise their prices *directly* to the customers that much, so they'll 
> charge who sends them the data and hope that Amazon et. al. passes on 
> this extra cost instead of the ISP having to charge the customer 
> directly.


Now I see the sick and twisted reality behind it.  They want to make 
people pay to reach their customers.  The great benefit of the internet to 
the economy could be sucked up into the ISPs, or so they hope.

Well, with Google and Microsoft both against it, finally something good 
may come from their corporate power.

Mike

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