ISP Capping Is Becoming the New DRM

Crazzaper writes "There's a lot of controversy over ISP capping with Time Warner leading the charge. Tom's Hardware has an interesting article about how capping is the new form of DRM at the ISP level. The author draws some comparison to business practices by large cable operators and their efforts to protect cable TV programming. While this is understandable from the cable operator's perspective, the article points out how capping will affect popular services such as Steam for game content publishing and distribution, cloud-computing and online media services. Apparently this is also an effective way of going after casual piracy."

Comments

Trust-busting, can we say it boys and girls?

[jollyreaper]

Too big to fail = too big to risk leaving whole. Too much concentration of power leads to abuses. When mergers happen and the CEO's gloat about efficiencies of scale, they're talking about putting Americans out of work. And where do all those savings go? Fat CEO paychecks. Keeping those jobs in pay ain't inefficiency, it's redundancy in the engineering sense, like "let's have redundant control cables on the airplane so if one set goes out, we won't fall out of the sky. Let's have lots of banks so if a couple fail, we don't lose the whole industry." When Republicans bleat about class warfare and wealth redistribution, they forget to mention that they threw the first punch.

This Time-Warner BS is no different from GE buying up a news network so they can create more favorable coverage of their business interests. Propaganda is wrong; propagandists are liars and should be treated as such.

Re:how do you accept it?

[GargamelSpaceman]

What are the penalties for viewing porn in Turkey? Is that stuff filtered out? Maybe nobody wants to look at the content that is left...

Or maybe Turkey is a free society. I honestly don't know.