So what you are saying is that I'll have to pay more just to get streaming video and other multimedia or news content from CNN for instance over broadband on top of my Comcast HSI subscription?
That the Providers will have to pay the telecoms just to get a license or storage for redistributiing the content on their servers? That's akin to the Cable companies paying the major broadcast TV networks royalties to rebroadcast their programs over cable TV. The telecoms would simply choose which content I should be paying for rather than not paying for it at all? To me that doesn't make sense at all since I am paying for my right to access the net through Comcast I and other users should have to right to decide which content is worth paying for or not and not the telecoms. This is just another revenue stream for the telecoms and I should not be penalized for simply using all of the bandwidth on Comcast even if that's not true at all. In fact how can the service providers assume that all broadband users will use all the bandwidth when in reality they don't becuase full bandwidth can never be guaranteed in the least. If this is the case then count me in I'll put my Jhon Hancock down! Marc Sims Data Technician I Prince George's Community College >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, October 19, 2006 >>> On 19 Oct 2006 at 10:30, Marc Sims wrote: > I've heard of the Net Neutrality issue but just in what specific context is ... this > supposed group savetheinternet.com so hyper about saving the internet from > what? It is an immensely complicated issue. Similar in rhetoric and emotion to the upheavals back in the 90s when NSF was going to 'privatize' the Internet (imminent death of the network was predicted if the network got privatized!...:o)). Boiled down: the question is whether bit-providers [that is, the *transport* folk, as distinct from the _content_ providers that *use* those bits and the consumers who eat the bits] should be allowed to decide how their bits are used. /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- - -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
