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How ISPs May Quietly Kill VoIP

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the poor-kids-never-had-a-chance dept.

ravenII writes "PBS's i'Cringley's informative piece gives an eye-opening look at the anticompetitive behavior of some ISPs who are showing up late to the VoIP game. This is not something that could be easily mandated, and the beauty of this approach is that they're not explicitly doing anything to the 3rd party service applications. They're just identifying and tagging their own services, which is within their rights."

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  1. Re:This indeed disproves the myth of capitalism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And just how does this disprove capitalism? Are you saying that since some (not all) of the ISPs are tagging in order to give better throughput to their own products, that that is anti-capitalistic? How? The ISP owns their network. It is their propoerty. They can do with it what they like. If you don't like it, move to a different ISP. Capitalism is controlled by the consumer, you moron. "Vote" with your money and the ISPs will come around. Capitalism is the epitomy of democracy. Government intervention will only make ISP services more expensive, buraucratic, less efficient, and useless to the consumer. You are obviously a socialist who prefers state intervention so that everyone can get "equal" service - equal, but crappy.