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HD Video Could 'Choke the Internet'?
richdun writes "Yahoo! is carrying an AP story explaining how ISPs are worried large streaming videos could 'choke the Internet.' This is used as a yet another reason for tiered pricing for access to content providers." From the article: "Most home Internet use is in brief bursts -- an e-mail here, a Web page there. If people start watching streaming video like they watch TV -- for hours at a time -- that puts a strain on the Internet that it wasn't designed for, ISPs say, and beefing up the Internet's capacity to prevent that will be expensive. To offset that cost, ISPs want to start charging content providers to ensure delivery of large video files, for example."
The internet was only designed for transmission of '0's and '1's, but HD video uses a lot of '2's.
As if regular TV is going to be any match for all the porn traffic. Definitely a cash grab.
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Thank you for your concern. I'll risk it. Please remove your greedy paws from my content provider's pocket.
Disgustedly yours,
Cash cow 9463450.
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"Either people will watch the streaming downloads, or they'll download the movies another way. "
Wow! Someone should invent a mass produced and mass marketed plastic disc that holds video and sound.
Perhaps, but HD video will certainly cause a few slashdotters to 'choke the chicken.'
POKE 36879,8
guys this isn't what the isp's designed the internet for.
if you upgrade to internet 2.0 for 39.99 extra per month you'll be able to do it.
-- lol pwned
"Say there, Mister Content Provider, that's sure a nice video you tryin' to send. Be a shame if anything was to, you know, happen to it...
The internet was only designed for transmission of '0's and '1's, but HD video uses a lot of '2's.
Bender: Ahhh, what an awful dream. Ones and zeroes everywhere...[shudder] and I thought I saw a two.
Fry: It was just a dream, Bender. There's no such thing as two.
Don't trust a bull's horn, a doberman's tooth, a runaway horse or me.
Only Chuck Norris could "choke the internet".
does anyone have a HD rip of someone reading the article? At least something that will take up some of all this idle bandwith I have?
Also the internet is not meant for broadcast. 80 million people watched Friends each week. That's totally asynchronous. The net is not meant to be so heavily lodsided.
Get a grip, it's asymmetrical. How do you expect anybody to take you serially?
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
THIS IS THE INTERNET. PLEASE PICK UP YOUR SERIOUS BUSINESS SUIT AT THE FRONT COUNTER.
it is what you get. from your computer/router to the nearest company equipment...
comment first, facts later. http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
($_ = unpack("B*", "NERD ALERT")) =~ s/(........)/\1 /g;
print;
Just a minor nit-pick - the population of London is a touch under 7.5 million. Assuming 4 people per household, that's about 1.8 million households, or 3 routers.
It's official. Most of you are morons.
Is that what you kids are calling it nowadays? Excuse me, I have to go choke the Internet...