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[Donna]

06/01/2008 - Every significant Internet provider around the globe is currently in talks with access and content providers to transform the internet into a television-like medium: no more freedom, you pay for a small commercial package of sites you can visit and you'll have to pay for seperate subscriptions for every site that's not in the package

Main Source: http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality




Unsure what to think about this but I can see it happening as they done it to our TV Channels.

Your thoughts?

[EAXT]

That would be something pretty disgusting if they'd do it... what can I say...

[Mr. Matt]

Tis linkbait. These people do a whole range of take the piss youtube vids. It would never happen, the whole net would just die.

[Bug]

Goodness that's the second video I've seen them post about the issue... I've known about this for a while but I really didn't think it would end up happening.

http://stopvirgin.movielol.org/

Edited by Bug, 02 June 2008 - 03:41 AM.

[CrazedLlama]

Not going to happen, a few years back from what my parents tell me internet wasent going to last a year, it was always coming down, etc. And isnt the world supposed to end in 2012?

[N4Z.]

Sure ISP's will lose a whole bunch of money every month?

Oh well.. I can deal with no internet. Break.com - YouTube.com - P2L - MySpace - FaceBook - Play.com - WikiPedia

All i need x)

[WALNUT]

nah its false information, theres too much money in it at the moment and unlike tv there is simply billions of websites.

[Donna]

Whether it happens or not it's making people think and already 2 replies in this topic went searching lol

[rc69]

CrazedLlama, on Jun 2 2008, 03:41 AM, said:

..isnt the world supposed to end in 2012?

Yep, now we know the cause

Personally though, as somebody who makes the small sites that nobody goes to, i would be out of a job if this were to happen.

[Bug]

Donna, on Jun 2 2008, 11:58 PM, said:

Whether it happens or not it's making people think and already 2 replies in this topic went searching lol

Actually just showing what I found a while ago at http://www.tlegion.c...ead.php?tid=885 - But that thread got hardly any responses... so I doubt people are taking this seriously.

If Virgin Media to go through with it, I dare say other ISPs will look into it and could most likely follow - It has been something that ISPs have been wanting to do for a while now, I'm sure of it.

[NGPixel]

lol, fake. Don't you think the whole world would complain about it and protests against ISPs? Internet is free and will stay free. That's the most fundamental idea behind the internet.

[N4Z.]

NGPixel, on Jun 3 2008, 12:12 AM, said:

lol, fake. Don't you think the whole world would complain about it and protests against ISPs? Internet is free and will stay free. That's the most fundamental idea behind the internet.

Exactly, that's why I'm looking at this as some kind of other scheme ISPs have up their sleeves...

They have tried filtering what we download... Failed.
Filtering what sites we access... Failed.

Illegal activity on the net will probably never stop, the same as the internet itself... it will never stop... The universe expands, so does the net... It will never end.

I give any company that is looking into this, 2 months then some law will pop up explaining either A) Why they cant do this or Why they will lose so much money if they did do this.

BS imo.

[Donna]

S0LDIER., on Jun 2 2008, 04:44 PM, said:

NGPixel, on Jun 3 2008, 12:12 AM, said:

lol, fake. Don't you think the whole world would complain about it and protests against ISPs? Internet is free and will stay free. That's the most fundamental idea behind the internet.

Exactly, that's why I'm looking at this as some kind of other scheme ISPs have up their sleeves...

They have tried filtering what we download... Failed.
Filtering what sites we access... Failed.

Illegal activity on the net will probably never stop, the same as the internet itself... it will never stop... The universe expands, so does the net... It will never end.

I give any company that is looking into this, 2 months then some law will pop up explaining either A) Why they cant do this or Why they will lose so much money if they did do this.

BS imo.

Your both incorrect, internet is NOT free, it's only free if your parents pay for you and even then it's still a paid service.

Filtering hasn't failed its barely even started and it's very easy for them to block out sites and watch everything you do, take Korea and China for example all our governments have to do is enact it like they do with everything else. And Comcast is shutting clients off if they download too much, others are handing info over to the Police/CIA/FBI etc

[dEcade]

Bah! Worlds suppose to end then anyways...

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=12...earch&meta=

[NGPixel]

Donna, on Jun 2 2008, 09:36 PM, said:

Your both incorrect, internet is NOT free, it's only free if your parents pay for you and even then it's still a paid service.

Filtering hasn't failed its barely even started and it's very easy for them to block out sites and watch everything you do, take Korea and China for example all our governments have to do is enact it like they do with everything else. And Comcast is shutting clients off if they download too much, others are handing info over to the Police/CIA/FBI etc

I never said free in terms of money. You are free to go on any website you want, download what you want, etc. Filtering is based on the government you have, but the internet by definition is free.

And like anything D, don't subscribe with ISPs that aren't fair

[Donna]

NGPixel, on Jun 2 2008, 08:42 PM, said:

I never said free in terms of money. You are free to go on any website you want, download what you want, etc. Filtering is based on the government you have, but the internet by definition is free.

And like anything D, don't subscribe with ISPs that aren't fair

Nope there's many websites that you have to pay to see, porno/warez/tutorial sites/1000's of graphics sites many forums are all going to paid memberships/movie sites/news sites some require a paid membership to read......... just to name a few.

[rc69]

Donna, on Jun 2 2008, 08:36 PM, said:

Your both incorrect, internet is NOT free, it's only free if your parents pay for you and even then it's still a paid service...

Obviously you haven't been to a McDonalds in a while...

Donna, on Jun 2 2008, 10:00 PM, said:

NGPixel, on Jun 2 2008, 08:42 PM, said:

I never said free in terms of money. You are free to go on any website you want, download what you want, etc. Filtering is based on the government you have, but the internet by definition is free.

And like anything D, don't subscribe with ISPs that aren't fair

Nope there's many websites that you have to pay to see, porno/warez/tutorial sites/1000's of graphics sites many forums are all going to paid memberships/movie sites/news sites some require a paid membership to read......... just to name a few.

Just because you have to pay to see the content, doesn't mean you're not free to visit the site (if only to be handed a registration form). I don't think NG means to take into account the several individual sites that force users to pay for their services. What i think he is trying to get at is that, we don't have to pay the ISP to visit those sites. We can visit them on a whim if we so choose, it is just that once we get there, we will have to pay the owner of the site, or leave and try to find somebody else who will give us what we are looking for.

[Donna]

rc69, on Jun 2 2008, 10:47 PM, said:

Obviously you haven't been to a McDonalds in a while...

I like living and yeah we have that here as well but someone is still paying for the service.

[rc69]

Donna, on Jun 3 2008, 08:26 AM, said:

rc69, on Jun 2 2008, 10:47 PM, said:

Obviously you haven't been to a McDonalds in a while...

I like living and yeah we have that here as well but someone is still paying for the service.

Yep, i thought of that about an hour after making the post and figured you would bring that up

[Hoot]

Probably BS, the world is also suppost to end in 2012. So yeah, if it did happen it would suck but I doubt it will.

Hoot