Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down the Tubes By Doc Searls on Wed, 2005-11-16 02:00. Industry News We're hearing tales of two scenarios--one pessimistic, one optimistic--for the future of the Net. If the paranoids are right, the Net's toast. If they're not, it will be because we fought to save it, perhaps in a new way we haven't talked about before. Davids, meet your Goliaths. - This is a long essay. There is, however, no limit to how long I could have made it. The subjects covered here are no less enormous than the Net and its future. Even optimists agree that the Net's future as a free and open environment for business and culture is facing many threats. We can't begin to cover them all or cover all the ways we can fight them. I believe, however, that there is one sure way to fight all of these threats at once, and without doing it the bad guys will win. That's what this essay is about.
Here's a brief outline of the article. If you want to go straight to the solution, skip to the third section:
Scenario I: The Carriers Win
Scenario II: The Public Workaround
Scenario III: Fight with Words and Not Just Deeds
-
Scenario I: The Carriers Win
Be afraid. Be very afraid. --Kevin Werbach.
Are you ready to see the Net privatized from the bottom to the top? Are you ready to see the Net's free and open marketplace sucked into a pit of pipes built and fitted by the phone and cable companies and run according to rules lobbied by the carrier and content industries?
Do you believe a free and open market should be "Your choice of walled garden" or "Your choice of silo"? That's what the big carrier and content companies believe. That's why they're getting ready to fence off the frontiers.
And we're not stopping it.
With the purchase and re-animation of AT&T's remains, the collection of former Baby Bells called SBC will become the largest communications company in the US--the new Ma Bell. Verizon, comprised of the old GTE plus MCI and the Baby Bells SBC didn't grab, is the new Pa Bell. That's one side of the battlefield, called The Regulatory Environment. Across the battlefield from Ma and Pa Bell are the cable and entertainment giants: Comcast, Cox, TimeWarner and so on. Covering the battle are the business and tech media, which love a good fight.
The problem is that all of these battling companies--plus the regulators--hate the Net.
Maybe hate is too strong of a word. The thing is, they're hostile to it, because they don't get it. Worse, they only get it in one very literal way. See, to the carriers and their regulators, the Net isn't a world, a frontier, a marketplace or a commons. To them, the Net is a collection of pipes. Their goal is to beat the other pipe-owners. To do that, they want to sell access and charge for traffic.
There's nothing wrong with being in the bandwidth business, of course. But some of these big boys want to go farther with it. They don't see themselves as a public utility selling a pure base-level service, such as water or electricity (which is what they are, by the way, in respect to the Net). They see themselves as a source of many additional value-adds, inside the pipes. They see opportunities to sell solutions to industries that rely on the Net--especially their natural partner, the content industry.
They see a problem with freeloaders. On the tall end of the power curve, those 'loaders are AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and other large sources of the container cargo we call "content". Out on the long tail, the freeloaders are you and me. The big 'loaders have been getting a free ride for too long and are going to need to pay. The Information Highway isn't the freaking interstate. It's a system of private roads that needs to start charging tolls. As for the small 'loaders, it hardly matters that they're a boundless source of invention, innovation, vitality and new business. To the carriers, we're all still just "consumers". And we always will be.
actually he showed that you could get root shell. this is why Cisco tried so hard to stop him. this was very very major.
the presentation is available in the free (from Bush) world.
The auto-switching adaptors are also good for (limited) protection from electrical surges. You are likely to get REALLY crap electricity (when you do get any power) and these come in handy. However I would recommend getting something else to protect your electrical stuff - locally made protection is likely to be good for this.
was a programmer, but wanted to work for myself. Did an MBA, started business, lost a LOT of money and am now un-employable. Had to work long and hard to get going again. I love it and would recommend it to any one and everyone.
I get to decide what to do - so no accounting software, yes to network security.
ahem. actually its been done by the carriers in more places than I can remember - Argentina, Ethiopia, Paksitan...
Voip has been enemy number 1 for PTTs the world over for many years. Get out from under that rock and take a look around.
Re:How Israeli Companies Are Succeeding...
on
Business Under Fire
·
· Score: 1
Well the Palestinians were there first. The Jews then left (or were driven out) and then came back after a few thousand years. So invasion is not a valid here.
Remember the biblical story about the PHILISTINE? - well, now you call the PHILISTINEs Palestinians.
Without getting into the politics of the middle-east conflict, nor taking sides, the book shows both technology and business managers how they can deal with the most adverse of situations.
well you can start by writing a book how the Palestinians deal with occupation?
Just using the word 'terrorism' is siding with the Isrealis
Slashdot Mirror
Sylpheed Claws: tried it. Lots of nice features, except it was not stable.
Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down the Tubes
By Doc Searls on Wed, 2005-11-16 02:00. Industry News
We're hearing tales of two scenarios--one pessimistic, one optimistic--for the future of the Net. If the paranoids are right, the Net's toast. If they're not, it will be because we fought to save it, perhaps in a new way we haven't talked about before. Davids, meet your Goliaths.
-
This is a long essay. There is, however, no limit to how long I could have made it. The subjects covered here are no less enormous than the Net and its future. Even optimists agree that the Net's future as a free and open environment for business and culture is facing many threats. We can't begin to cover them all or cover all the ways we can fight them. I believe, however, that there is one sure way to fight all of these threats at once, and without doing it the bad guys will win. That's what this essay is about.
Here's a brief outline of the article. If you want to go straight to the solution, skip to the third section:
Scenario I: The Carriers Win
Scenario II: The Public Workaround
Scenario III: Fight with Words and Not Just Deeds
-
Scenario I: The Carriers Win
Be afraid. Be very afraid. --Kevin Werbach.
Are you ready to see the Net privatized from the bottom to the top? Are you ready to see the Net's free and open marketplace sucked into a pit of pipes built and fitted by the phone and cable companies and run according to rules lobbied by the carrier and content industries?
Do you believe a free and open market should be "Your choice of walled garden" or "Your choice of silo"? That's what the big carrier and content companies believe. That's why they're getting ready to fence off the frontiers.
And we're not stopping it.
With the purchase and re-animation of AT&T's remains, the collection of former Baby Bells called SBC will become the largest communications company in the US--the new Ma Bell. Verizon, comprised of the old GTE plus MCI and the Baby Bells SBC didn't grab, is the new Pa Bell. That's one side of the battlefield, called The Regulatory Environment. Across the battlefield from Ma and Pa Bell are the cable and entertainment giants: Comcast, Cox, TimeWarner and so on. Covering the battle are the business and tech media, which love a good fight.
The problem is that all of these battling companies--plus the regulators--hate the Net.
Maybe hate is too strong of a word. The thing is, they're hostile to it, because they don't get it. Worse, they only get it in one very literal way. See, to the carriers and their regulators, the Net isn't a world, a frontier, a marketplace or a commons. To them, the Net is a collection of pipes. Their goal is to beat the other pipe-owners. To do that, they want to sell access and charge for traffic.
There's nothing wrong with being in the bandwidth business, of course. But some of these big boys want to go farther with it. They don't see themselves as a public utility selling a pure base-level service, such as water or electricity (which is what they are, by the way, in respect to the Net). They see themselves as a source of many additional value-adds, inside the pipes. They see opportunities to sell solutions to industries that rely on the Net--especially their natural partner, the content industry.
They see a problem with freeloaders. On the tall end of the power curve, those 'loaders are AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and other large sources of the container cargo we call "content". Out on the long tail, the freeloaders are you and me. The big 'loaders have been getting a free ride for too long and are going to need to pay. The Information Highway isn't the freaking interstate. It's a system of private roads that needs to start charging tolls. As for the small 'loaders, it hardly matters that they're a boundless source of invention, innovation, vitality and new business. To the carriers, we're all still just "consumers". And we always will be.
"P
Why is this topic classified as 'IBM'. Can we have a new Lenovo logo please?
so stop worrying....
actually he showed that you could get root shell. this is why Cisco tried so hard to stop him. this was very very major. the presentation is available in the free (from Bush) world.
a colourful sofa is so much more useful for research than say, 'The Art of Programming' by Dijkstra.
The auto-switching adaptors are also good for (limited) protection from electrical surges. You are likely to get REALLY crap electricity (when you do get any power) and these come in handy. However I would recommend getting something else to protect your electrical stuff - locally made protection is likely to be good for this.
yes :-) thats what the hackers are doing right now, research into the uses of those cc numbers.
the word 'boxen', now /. is using 'listen' as a noun. l33t. very l33t.
for Aroma over IP
wasn't it Google's clean interface that killed the whole portal idea?
worse? in what way?
Wrong there mate. Outsourcing will bring UP wages. Oh, unless you happen to be American or West European.....
Tuxracer on one of those !
it still has Paint!
income distribution have anything to do with it?
is this what you might call patent spam? file millions, some are bound to get through?
was a programmer, but wanted to work for myself. Did an MBA, started business, lost a LOT of money and am now un-employable. Had to work long and hard to get going again. I love it and would recommend it to any one and everyone.
I get to decide what to do - so no accounting software, yes to network security.
Firewalls shouldn't be blocking 'extensions' in any case. Leave that to proxy's and mail servers.
If your firewall is blocking .RAR or other 'extensions' then its probably made by Microsoft and you are very very safe :-)
ahem. actually its been done by the carriers in more places than I can remember - Argentina, Ethiopia, Paksitan...
Voip has been enemy number 1 for PTTs the world over for many years. Get out from under that rock and take a look around.
Well the Palestinians were there first. The Jews then left (or were driven out) and then came back after a few thousand years. So invasion is not a valid here. Remember the biblical story about the PHILISTINE? - well, now you call the PHILISTINEs Palestinians.
Without getting into the politics of the middle-east conflict, nor taking sides, the book shows both technology and business managers how they can deal with the most adverse of situations. well you can start by writing a book how the Palestinians deal with occupation? Just using the word 'terrorism' is siding with the Isrealis
maybe you need really high performance router if you are doing lots of filtering, blocking and logging ???
For those still stuck with dialup (like me - sympathy please), devices like the IP Star are best http://www.tele.com.pk/
Even my mother can use it without help.
come one Smurf Bob, give us the code....