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Time Warner Filtering iTunes Traffic?
An anonymous reader writes "Starting on Thursday, January 31st, Time Warner subscribers in Texas starting experiencing connectivity issues to the iTunes store to the point where the service wasn't usable. General internet traffic issues haven't coincided with these problems, and many folks have reported that the store works as normal when they head to the nearest mega-bookstore and use their ISP instead. Time Warner has announced that they're going to begin trials of tiered pricing in one local Texas market, but I'll be darn sure to switch my provider if I hear the slightest hint of destination/content based tiers instead of bandwidth tiers."
Nobody's going to throttle my frosty piss!
there is the another side of the coin. Does a small group of mega corporations have the right to hog significant chunks of the nation's bandwidth for their own personal profit, at no cost to them. The worst offender would be downloading and streaming movies. How about in the future when HD movies take off, and we're all downloading and streaming HD movies to watch on our 65" flat screen HD TVs. That would eat up huge amounts of bandwidth. Do we want to subsidize the oligarchy of Hollywood movie studios and their distributors?
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Perhaps the solution is that iTunes should bear some of the additional cost of the high amount of traffic their service creates. Then they can pass that additional cost along to their subscribers, rather than the rest of us subsidizing the Jobs company.