Go Capitalism!
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Vivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The country that is already trailing the rest of the developed world in > Internet Usage has now taken even more steps backward. > > > http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2008/tc2008063_767960.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_news+%2B+analysis > > Time Warner is putting in place a Net Metering system, where their most > expensive package is capped at 40GB per month for about 50US$. > > While other countries are offering 30MB/s download speeds unlimited, and > have far higher broadband penetration, these US Providers seem intent on > stifling the growing Multimedia usage of the Internet. > You have one set of companies on the one hand seeking to leverage the > Internet for High Definition TV viewing (HULU etc.) and doing your work > online (Google Apps, Online File Storage etc. ) and then > you have the providers seeking to cut back on customer capabilities. This > will have a net negative effect on all these new and innovative services! > The holy grail of television - IPTV....might never happen. > > If there are no customers , then these innovative business ideas such as > YouTube, Second Life, Google Apps, Hulu, Direct Software Downloads etc. > aren't going to go anywhere, and most would never have started. > A Game bought Legitimately from EA Online Store, or Direct2Drive.com is > about 12GB now, that's almost HALF of your monthly allotment for bandwidth > at Time Warner's maximum. > > Couple this with an almost psychotic focus on the so called losses caused > by > Piracy related to BitTorrent and the billions that these companies seem > prepared to spend on packet inspection systems to stop the protocol, and it > makes it seem that the only thing that runs the US is Corporations and > Capitalist interest - "What do we have to do to make the most profit. > Period." The RIAA and MPAA lobbies are hard at work pushing their false > information to the public that they lose oh so much money from online movie > downloads and music downloads although Movie purchases actually INCREASED > last year! > > Purchasing and developing systems to stop SPAM which accounts for more than > 90% of email traffic, Virus propagation through the net in attachments etc. > would help far more people than spending billions to stop BitTorrent. But > there is little to no interest by these same providers in such > technology.Why? > > The plan is utterly ridiculous, and these companies are simply trying to > insulate themselves and milk the public instead of improving their networks > to meet customer demand and changing usage of the Internet, while making > gross profits. > This is also spreading to ...guess where? The UK ! > GAH! > > The article doesn't note if tier pricing to offshore providers is going to > change as well as a result of this, but I sincerely hope there is no > trickle > down effect. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:261255 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
