Agreed! Perhaps what Comcast is doing should be seen as an opportunity.
If people are really up in arms about the "bandwidth throttling" they are doing.... why not start your own ISP and take all their dissatisfied customers? (And if the Government has any kind of regulation/intervention that prevents this kind of competitive action... the lets get rid of them.) See ya On Feb 9, 2008 5:29 PM, Tim Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't like that they are doing this. I'm against it but I think we > should try to look at from their point of view so that we can > understand where they are coming from and how we might put a stop to > this before none of us can afford to upload our shows anymore. > > Imagine if you ran a Grocery Store and inside your grocery store you > had a coffee shop that was owned by an Independent Coffee Chain. > > Then one day the Government said "Hey you have a Coffee Shop in your > grocery store. You need to let other coffee companies sell coffee in > your store for free." > > So you let Starbucks, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf as well as Pete's > Coffee and Tully's sell coffee in your store and they didn't pay you > any money but they did create more traffic in your parking lot and > they made it hard for your costumers to get into your grocery store. > > Maybe you might try and keep your parking lot free to only your > customers, unless the government told you that you needed to let > anyone park in your parking lot. > > In a free and open society should a grocery store be forced to allow > other companies to sell products in their store without paying > something? > > Tim Street > Creator/Executive Producer > French Maid TV > Subscribe for FREE @ > http://frenchmaidtv.com/itunes > MyBlog > http://1timstreet.com > > > > On Feb 9, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Jay dedman wrote: > > > > This will be the a good real test of whether or not the FCC will > > follow up > > > on their promise to enforce network neutrality, in terms of > > penalties for > > > comcast. I'm not holding my breath. > > > > here's how they are spinning it. > > We are a private company and our network is private. (even if our > > network is run over public property) > > We are telling you in our 10 page contract (with small, legalese, > > ambiguous text) what we are allowed to do. > > You make a choice to use us (even if we may be the only broadband > > network in your area) > > Regulation is slows down competition. (even if we are doing our best > > to become a total monopoly) > > > > somehow this argument makes the current FCC officers feel like all is > > right in america. > > > > Jay > > > > -- > > http://jaydedman.com > > 917 371 6790 > > Professional: http://ryanishungry.com > > Personal: http://momentshowing.net > > Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/ > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaydedman > > RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9 > > -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/
