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Content Connect enables ISPs to store video within their own networks, closer to the user, as opposed to third-party companies – such as Akamai, which delivers the BBC's iPlayer – caching popular content around the globe. By paying the ISP, rather than the third-party company, users could get a guaranteed delivery of service even at peak times.

In other words, you can pay them to host your video for you. BBC's data moves at the same speed and with the same priority as that ninja guy's data. The difference is that BBC's data will move less distance because it is being hosted by the ISP near the user. Amazon does the same thing with cloud front except that it is not an ISP and may not be able to do it as efficiently.

But it would also create a situation where companies that are unwilling – or unable – to pay would have their content delivered less efficiently to the end user.

This is absolutly true. If you are not willing to pay for premium content hosting from the ISP, you will have less efficent service. However, that is becase the data is being hosted in a new way that could not be done before. Not because other data is being slowed down. This is not a direct threat to net neutrality. This is yet another buisness model/industry for ISPs to expand to.

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Wow, this sounds like the kind of phone a ninja would use if he was to use a phone! Maybe we should ask a ninja his opinion on it?
It'll be perfect for this Cybernetic Cloaking (TM) feature that this Androids platform provides!

http://askaninja.com/news/2006/05/17/ask-a-ninja-special-delivery-5-doogtoons-3

http://www.askaninja.com/ and http://www.homestarrunner.com/.

Sure, slashdot, maybe, but that's just so people can validate my sense of humor and I can troll liberals.

Are you implying that this guy is not a legitimate ninja?

YouTube made its billions violating copyrights, as did napster.

Huh. So what's YouTube's business model again? What's Napster's?

I bet every one of us' first exposure to youtube was watching some commercial productions.

Bullshit. The first time I even looked for anything possibly illegal was a couple Monty Python sketches and the "Mad World" music video.

My first exposure to YouTube was when Ask A Ninja started doing YouTube for a few of them instead of hosting the files themselves. My second was a beautiful, original piece of music. Since then, I've seen all kinds of things on YouTube, all of them user created, all of them interesting, and all of them legal.

It didn't even occur to me until very recently that someone might even try to upload something illegal, when BitTorrent+DivX looks so much better.

I believe Archive.org does allow FTP uploading. http://ourmedia.org/ uses a proprietary uploader, or did when we used it earlier this year.

You could also look at http://blip.tv/ and http://revver.com./ Both provide RSS and hosting for free and with Revver you can actually make money.

We use http://libsyn.com/ for some of our media hosting as well. They are good, reliable and cheap. They have FTP and tools to create a blog onsite (though we use a drupal site for our main site).

Good luck and create good podcasts!

Dude. Ninjas/Pirates of the Caribbean.

Thinking back a month... Things I've watched recently on You Tube:

Trailer for Transformers - Legalish
Transforming Robot Beetle - Legal
Playing With Electricity Video - Legal
Metalocalypse - Not Legal
Ask a Ninja - Legal
Street Running - Legal
ZeFrank talking at a convention - Legal
Some guy blowing the whistle on faulty helicopter design - Legal
Quake 3 Rocket Jump super skillz video - Legal

I know there are a lot of illegal uses for YouTube. But it seems like unlike a lot of P2P apps, the non-infringing uses are substantial. If YouTube could successfully filter out all of the illegal content, it would still have a lot of uses

It's actually a Ninja named Roger who's pissed at him. He's waiting for the author to click on the wrong link.

If there were merchant-ivory class games we'd have to come
up with lots of excuses for when people asked us to play with them.

http://www.askaninja.com/node/943

Oh yeah, Death Death Revolution

It sounds like science is catching up with the glass blades Raven carries in Neal Stephenson's book Snow Crash.

Dmitri "Raven" Ravinoff -- An Aleut native who works as a mercenary. His preferred weapons are glass knives - undetectable by security systems and reputed to be molecule-thin at the edges - and throwing spears. He travels on a motorcycle whose sidecar has been replaced with a hydrogen bomb that will automatically detonate if his heart stops beating.

On another technicality, isn't pencil lead actually made up of sheets a single molecule thick?

We could arm minjas (midget ninjas) with these molecular spears and graphite shurikens to make the real ultimate killing power even more ultimaterer.

When they come without a warrant, and you refuse ( which you can ), they just come back tomrrow WITH a warrant and with a vengance to make an example of you.

"Net neutrality proponents worry that telecom, wireless and cable companies might one day favor their own content and applications over others."

He says this, but nowhere does he say that the ISPs won't do it. Normally when I make arguments, I try to refute the opposition's points, especially when I myself bring them up. Then he goes on to try to scare his audience about Big Bad Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo supporting net neutrality and then making up something about them getting a cut-rate deal while consumers pay a "competitive" price. Wait, didn't he just say he's "net competition" proponent?

Besides, if anyone has questions about net neutrality, they should just ask a ninja about it.

... until I asked a ninja.

Now all is clear.

It's like asking the Hot Dog On A Stick Girl To Pay AT&T to let you watch her make lemonade, which is just wrong.

It's also true that they are trying to tell you watching Robin William's cousin squeeze bacon juice is "the same thing"...

ask a ninja about net neutrality

A lot more informative, and in video form:

http://www.askaninja.com/news/2006/05/11/ask-a-nin ja-special-delivery-4-net-neutrality

network neutrality == gluereed

What is Podcasting?

It's like a factory that produces apple pies for whales, that's the simplest way I can describe it.

Ask a Ninja

Of the two, Craig Newmark makes the better argument... however, neither explains how we have already PAID for the access to the sites we visit. However, the BEST argument I have seen so far is the ninja from "Ask a Ninja" http://www.askaninja.com/news/2006/05/11/ask-a-nin ja-special-delivery-4-net-neutrality

Yes. It's a dark day for the Ninja Party.

That's it. I'm sending in the ninjas.

-Grey

http://www.askaninja.com/news/2006/05/11/ask-a-nin ja-special-delivery-4-net-neutrality

No, it is the ask a ninja guy.
http://www.askaninja.com/

if you're ever curious about anything relating to ninjas and you want a straight, no bs answer, you can always ask a ninja.