Congress Net Neutrality and the Internet

[Lesh, Mark]

This article appeared in my eWeek news feed today: 

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1955700,00.asp?kc=ewnws050106dtx1k0
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The bottom line on it is as follows:

Internet providers like AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress hard to
reduce or eliminate Network Neutrality. This means that certain content
will be given priority over other content based on a quality of service
premium paid to the network operators. This means that

*         A VPN you might be using from home to connect to work might
not work nearly as well, if you don't pay a VPN usage fee. 

*         A video you download will be choppy unless you pay for the
"enhanced streaming" option. 

*         Websites and companies that deliver VPN, Video, Search, and
Music services will also have to pay more for the "right" to deliver
them to you in an unaffected manner. 

*         Source code or binary files might be harder to download
without a "downloaders fee"

*         Bittorrent or other P2P network usage will require the "file
sharing" option

Think cell phone or long distance pricing is complicated? Well, it may
soon be that your internet connection has as many pricing levels. 

If you think the internet should remain Neutral with respect to the
content carried upon it, then Click here:

http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet 

A list of all the ways you might be affected by Net Neutrality is
located on the bottom of this link: 
http://civic.moveon.org/alerts/savetheinternet.html 

 

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