If a company gets a chance to sabotage a competitor without being caught, they will do so.
THey could hog the pipe, or even go so low as to start snipping.
Let the municipality own the pipes and rent them out to providers.
The fact that ISPs actually go to such levels as suing cities who do so or trying to coax the state into forbidding cities I think speaks volumes for how entrenched they really are already.
They doth protest too much becuase they have a cushy spot to lose if they were actually forced to take their hands out of the cookie jar.
The wonderful thing is that ISP already have a perfectly good way to distinguish traffic that should be high priority and which should be bulked out at low cost.
Type of Service and Precedence.
VoIP qualifies as low latency traffic and can easily be made stutter free simply by stamping it with a "rush" bit.
In fact, why not let customers pay more for faster traffic?
I think that letting end users decide for themselves how important their traffic is...for a price...might actually help them manage their downloads better.
Let them run their torrents at low priority so that it yields properly to web traffic. Instant throttling with no trouble on the ISP's end once it's set up, and most of all, the light web users won't be harmed more than a token. Anyone using bulk traffic that's properly set up as low priority can keep their stuff going at full speed when possible, and yet they won't cause any trouble if a light user comes on just to do web stuff. They go right to the back of the line and yield, with the HTTP guy getting his traffic back with nary more than a teensy delay.
Speaking of web traffic, using proxy servers is probably a good idea to do a caching boost.
All you can eat does have value in eliminating the hassle of ordering, and it lets you pay up front and then just go straight to the food. So you're buying convenience and early service too.
Another reason that AYCE isn't going to bankrupt the restaurant is because your stomach has a finite capacity and eventually you have to stop. With electricity and internet, you can keep burning juice and downloading indefinitely.
However, giving heavy users flak for using what they paid for is just like an AYCE place kicking out a fat person after they've already paid to get in.
One place I went to awhile ago had a cross between ordering and buffet. You still loaded up with whatever you liked, but you took it to the register to weigh it and you paid on that.
If internet usage were metered like electricity then the heavy users would get better signals as to how much of a fixed capacity they were using.
Finally:
Whatever the issue may be about network abuse, ISPs that oversell and underprovision have only themselves to blame for bandwidth shortages and should really be smacked by the FTC as well for false and misleading advertising. Just getting barked at by the FCC really doesn't cut it.
Just because scientists may or may not have deduced that we are contributing to global warming doesn't mean that the politicians really running the world will give a shit either way.
When it is profitable to pillage the earth, it will happen no matter what the scientists say.
That's a hard sell when these virtual worlds are marketing the crap out of themselves as substitute babysitters so that parents can relax and leave their kids in front of the screen.
The only marketing done towards children is designed to get the kids to beg mom and dad for the goods. A few tantrums from a spoiled brat are frosting.
It's all well and good to say parents should take charge, but spend 2 minutes in their shoes and you'd have a bit of sympathy.
What they need is support, not blame.
No, I am not a parent (yet anyway), but I am a young adult that was a hellhound to raise. Recently I found out I was autistic, which seemed to put my mom at ease knowing she didn't fail as a parent as badly as she thought she did, and even she had to go it alone while I was young.
Single mother, with an autistic child.
Yes, parents have responsibilities, but let's not take their job for granted.
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Which makes me think that they ought to rework how they figure the damages.
I think that 2 bucks is quite a bit less than the damages suffered per person.
You mean like this?
Yup.
Courtrooms are simply arenas where you bleed dollars instead of blood.
All mankind has ever done since the cave man days is fight fight fight.
As long as it's openly disclosed and the judge recuses himself on demand there's no problem.
They already ARE the law.
The root of the problem is how much control corporate america really has over the government.
There is no such thing as anarchy in the long run. Vaccuums of all types, especially power vaccuums, yearn to be filled.
Give me an incompetent government over a greedy corporation any day.
Not good.
If a company gets a chance to sabotage a competitor without being caught, they will do so.
THey could hog the pipe, or even go so low as to start snipping.
Let the municipality own the pipes and rent them out to providers.
The fact that ISPs actually go to such levels as suing cities who do so or trying to coax the state into forbidding cities I think speaks volumes for how entrenched they really are already.
They doth protest too much becuase they have a cushy spot to lose if they were actually forced to take their hands out of the cookie jar.
The wonderful thing is that ISP already have a perfectly good way to distinguish traffic that should be high priority and which should be bulked out at low cost.
Type of Service and Precedence.
VoIP qualifies as low latency traffic and can easily be made stutter free simply by stamping it with a "rush" bit.
In fact, why not let customers pay more for faster traffic?
I think that letting end users decide for themselves how important their traffic is...for a price...might actually help them manage their downloads better.
Let them run their torrents at low priority so that it yields properly to web traffic. Instant throttling with no trouble on the ISP's end once it's set up, and most of all, the light web users won't be harmed more than a token. Anyone using bulk traffic that's properly set up as low priority can keep their stuff going at full speed when possible, and yet they won't cause any trouble if a light user comes on just to do web stuff. They go right to the back of the line and yield, with the HTTP guy getting his traffic back with nary more than a teensy delay.
Speaking of web traffic, using proxy servers is probably a good idea to do a caching boost.
All you can eat does have value in eliminating the hassle of ordering, and it lets you pay up front and then just go straight to the food. So you're buying convenience and early service too.
Another reason that AYCE isn't going to bankrupt the restaurant is because your stomach has a finite capacity and eventually you have to stop. With electricity and internet, you can keep burning juice and downloading indefinitely.
However, giving heavy users flak for using what they paid for is just like an AYCE place kicking out a fat person after they've already paid to get in.
One place I went to awhile ago had a cross between ordering and buffet. You still loaded up with whatever you liked, but you took it to the register to weigh it and you paid on that.
If internet usage were metered like electricity then the heavy users would get better signals as to how much of a fixed capacity they were using.
Finally:
Whatever the issue may be about network abuse, ISPs that oversell and underprovision have only themselves to blame for bandwidth shortages and should really be smacked by the FTC as well for false and misleading advertising. Just getting barked at by the FCC really doesn't cut it.
Actually there's a lot of similarity.
The wires have an amperage capacity much like the tubes have a bitrate limit.
It's quite fair to charge per so many bits, since that takes into account how much of the pie you're eating.
Tetris isn't inherently perverted like GTA's hot coffee scene.
THe only ones that tetris is going to harm in a sexual fashion are those that already have a gutterbrain.
Indeed.
I'd even go so far as to say that such a boneheaded move by the TSA should constitute willful declassification.
Throttling users below the limit of what they'd actually paid for isn't a net neutrality issue at all unless they are discriminating.
It is however a fair trade issue and the FTC should be going after them for fraud.
Which is rather interesting considering that it is the receivers of traffic and not the senders that benefit the most.
When you enjoy a webpage or watch a movie, you are receiving traffic.
Awww...and I was hoping it was a rickroll.
I'd swear that it almost looks like a tool to teach someone about basic JPEG encoding.
Same goes for my bank records, right?
The point is that a company that promises to keep your data safe and then willfully reneges on that promise is a sleazeball.
That's all fine until they unilaterally change the terms and yank the carpet out from under you.
Give me infighting companies over an unrestrained monopoly any day.
Indeed.
The way I see it, anyone sleazy enough to hack into some else's email to snoop around will also have no qualms about twisting it to their liking.
Just because scientists may or may not have deduced that we are contributing to global warming doesn't mean that the politicians really running the world will give a shit either way.
When it is profitable to pillage the earth, it will happen no matter what the scientists say.
Tragedy of the Commons.
The RIAA already has prior art on that.
They punish your pocketbook AND your ears!
I win because I hacked both of you.
Say, that would be a pretty good way to kidnap someone yes? Hijack their lojack and steer them right into your arms.
That's a hard sell when these virtual worlds are marketing the crap out of themselves as substitute babysitters so that parents can relax and leave their kids in front of the screen.
The only marketing done towards children is designed to get the kids to beg mom and dad for the goods. A few tantrums from a spoiled brat are frosting.
It's all well and good to say parents should take charge, but spend 2 minutes in their shoes and you'd have a bit of sympathy.
What they need is support, not blame.
No, I am not a parent (yet anyway), but I am a young adult that was a hellhound to raise. Recently I found out I was autistic, which seemed to put my mom at ease knowing she didn't fail as a parent as badly as she thought she did, and even she had to go it alone while I was young.
Single mother, with an autistic child.
Yes, parents have responsibilities, but let's not take their job for granted.
All they have to do is kill DVD.
Once DVD is dead blueray will enjoy format monopoly status and stay locked in simply because nobody will be able to choose differently.
I also predict that the DVD forum will be getting some payoffs to sabotage the format in the future.
Coming from an industry where content-degrading, consumer-frustrating DRM is a feature and not a bug, I don't think my paranoia is misplaced.