Greetings, This is the sort of stuff I hoped would happen, and was the basis for my relatively complacent position when it comes to this stuff. I maintain that there are enough powerful people who want to see the internet remain roughly as it is now, in terms of people being able to compete 'fairly', and these should override the interests of a greedy minority.
meanwhile in the UK the goverment has announced a review of UK broadband in the, to see who will be providing the necessary funding to provide extra bandwidth & even faster connections to peoples homes. Still the issue gets a bit confused, because making the connection to peoples doors faster, is only going to increase bottlenecks elsewhere in the network, so they should probably stop salivating over things like fibre-optic cables straight to peoples computers & 100MBit connections or whatever, and concentrate on there actually being enough capacity elsewherefor people to be able to use their current speeds at a sustained rate. Meanwhile in the UK the Government is also pressurizing ISPs to be responsible for preventing piracy, which is a mess of a policy and will create some interesting battles in the year ahead. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Jay dedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Did you cool kids see this? > > http://tinyurl.com/3c4lr4 > > FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is the Bush appointee so usually lets business do > whatever it wants. > what's telling is that even he is fearful of having several companies being > able to legally do whatever they want with the broadband network in secret. > Good Regulation just means fair and clear rules. > > Given the anticompetitive nature of Comcast throttling traffic from a > > potential video competitor, Martin who in the past has been loathe to go > > beyond the FCC's current policy pushing open networks and other Republican > > lawmakers seemed galvanized to act. Indeed, an attack on the free markets > > might be too much for the FCC to ignore. > > > > Jay > > -- > http://jaydedman.com > 917 371 6790 > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
