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Disney Strikes Against Net Neutrality
1 a bee writes "Ars Technica is running a story by Matthew Lasar about how Disney's ESPN360.com is charging ISPs for 'bulk' access to their content. According to the article, if you visit ESPN using a 'non-subscribing' ISP, you're greeted with a message explaining why access is restricted for you. This raises a number of issues: '... it's one thing to charge users an access fee, another to charge the ISP, potentially passing the cost on to all the ISPs subscribers whether they're interested in the content or not.' Ironically, the issue came to the fore in a complaint from the American Cable Association (ACA) to the FCC. A quoted ACA press release warns, 'Media giants are in the early stages of becoming Internet gatekeepers by requiring broadband providers to pay for their Web-based content and services and include them as part of basic Internet access for all subscribers. These content providers are also preventing subscribers who are interested in the content from independently accessing it on broadband networks of providers that have refused to pay.' So, is this a real threat to net neutrality (and the end-to-end principle) or just another bad business model that doesn't stand a chance?"
These are the same folks who bought the last four copyright extensions with mass "secret" donations and visits by Disney-sponsored hookers to congressional offices.
Just you wait. Obama's in office. For a sizable "donation" to his next campaign and certain congressionals, legislation ensuring this is legal will pass within two months tops. That's what you get when you elect a corrupt Chicago politician to the White House.
Like American car manufacturers to Honda/Toyota
moox. for a new generation.
Like American car manufacturers to Honda/Toyota
Oh, not this shit again.
Quality manufacturing. Yeah. You mean like the car that can have the hood removed, then get run over, end-to-end - twice - by a 20 ton bulldozer, and then not only still start up, but still drive? After cutting the roof off to get somewhere to sit, of course....
Was it a Toyota? Honda? Maybe a Mitsubishi?
No.
It was a Buick.
Watch the vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwIHRWSULRs
That mangled piece of crap they show @ 1:45 still starts, runs and drives.
Honda and Toyota wouldn't even know how to start building a car that tough.
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
Your car was run over by a bulldozer? No? Get back to me when it does. The rest of the world, who usually avoids parking in active construction zones, will happily continue driving their hondas and toyotas to 300,000 miles. Most parents would cringe at the idea of sending their kid off to college in a Ford Taurus with 150,000 miles on it. For those american car owners following along at home, that's half of 300,000 miles. If your first thought was "yeah, but who would want to be stuck driving in a 300,000 mile car anyways?" Well, that just drives home the point further that american cars are complete junk even today. American cars in 2009 are just warmed over versions of their smoke spewing, oil belching 1980s cousins. Need proof? How about the fact that you still need a 15/16ths inch socket to do some repairs. I mean seriously. The only american cars I would buy today are the ford focus and perhaps an F150 or similar pickup. Nobody gives a damn about your video.
moox. for a new generation.