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BT Content Connect May Impact Net Neutrality

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

a Flatbed Darkly writes "BT's Content Connect, a service which many have accused of threatening net neutrality, has apparently launched, although it is unknown whether or not any ISPs have bought or are planning to buy it yet; BT has denied the allegations, from Open Rights Group among others, that this, despite certainly being an anti-competitive service, does not create a two-tier internet. From the article: '"Contrary to recent reports in the media, BT's Content Connect service will not create a two-tier internet, but will simply offer service providers the option of differentiating their broadband offering through enhanced content delivery," a BT spokeswoman said.'"

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  1. Welcome to new-speak by Libertarian001 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    She denies that their service creates a two-tier internet, then goes on to describe their service which, is to create a two-tier internet. Nice.

    1. Re:Welcome to new-speak by dangitman · · Score: 5, Funny

      She denies that their service creates a two-tier internet, then goes on to describe their service which, is to create a two-tier internet. Nice.

      Your problem is that you're mistakenly thinking of them as "tiers." That's not the case. It's more like two different levels of service.

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    2. Re:Welcome to new-speak by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Your problem is that you're mistakenly thinking of them as "tiers." That's not the case. It's more like two different levels of service.

      Lucky bastards. My ISP doesn't even give one level of service.

    3. Re:Welcome to new-speak by MoonBuggy · · Score: 5, Informative

      If you click the 'More' tab, there's a note which reads "This website uses OpenSource video content. (c) copyright 2006, Blender Foundation / Netherlands Media Art Institute / www.elephantsdream.org". BT do tend to be hypocritical asshats, but they appear to be following the terms of the license in this case.

  2. What a polite euphemism by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Contrary to recent reports in the media, BT's Content Connect service will not create a two-tier internet, but will simply offer service providers the option of differentiating their broadband offering through enhanced content delivery

    I ran that through babelfish and got the translation: "Fuck you! We'll do whatever we want and you can't do a thing about it."

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  3. BT stands for British Communications PLC by torrija · · Score: 5, Informative

    BT needs disambiguation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT

    Acronyms can be confusing, so please explain them before using the acronym.

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  4. This is your run of the mill CDN by slashdotmsiriv · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Similar to those deployed by Akamai and Limelight for their customers, and by Google and Microsoft for themselves.

    A typical case of a Telco moving into an additional market.
    Arguably, it does allow BT to offer multi-tier services. But it is not packet-level differentiation
    in the network, which is the issue at the heart of the net-neutrality debate.

    If Content Distribution Networks violate net neutrality and the /. crowd thinks so, then
    we should be blasting Akamai and Google long time before we started blasting the Telcos.