soylentgreenb (January 1, 2008 at 10:18 am)

And how exactly is the exa flood more of a concern than the much hyped giga flood of 1996? The very same issues where raised, the very same solutions were raised.In the end, just adding more capacity was cheaper.

BoktaiFrog (December 20, 2007 at 5:45 pm)

Clever and educational. I liked it and it's interesting to learn a little bit about the future of the internet. I guess technology really is taking over.

Thundercross (December 20, 2007 at 5:43 pm)

2) What I think they should do is do what the Japanese telcos did, and open their infrastructure to startup companies, but charge them royalties for the usage. If they stop offering service directly and only through these other companies, we'd see an environment where they can profit from upgrading infrastructure and breaches of net neutrality will most certainly result in a loss of business.

Thundercross (December 20, 2007 at 5:42 pm)

1) I've heard that Japan forced their telecoms to open up their infrastructure to competition, and this led to an increased level of competition, and massive amounts of upgrades. Maybe the US telecoms do need a third revenue streams, but websites are not acceptable as a revenue stream.

Gamemako (December 18, 2007 at 12:35 am)

Cute, clever, and as "educational" as the Ministry of Love.

bigislandhawaii (July 11, 2007 at 12:28 am)

Interview with Larry Irving at wowtechminute website.

djfilitico (May 16, 2007 at 12:56 am)

The video only mentions large corporations's reasons why this should happen. Innovation has nothing to do with the argument. It's the allocation of resources going to a handful of corporations that I have a problem with. You want to turn the net into what Radio/TV has become: The average person has no input. I do not want another Telecom Act of '96 to happen where everyone loses except billion dollar companies. Net Neutrality is government regulation that curbs a few to protect the many.

bsteinhauser (May 15, 2007 at 9:21 pm)

Good video. Finally some information to counter the MoveOn crowd.

vingle (May 10, 2007 at 12:08 am)

I should add that I think this is a very nicely made video. But I think the issue is about control of the media, not costs, otherwise they would simply offer two-tier pricing to consumers for broadband, rather than producers.

vingle (May 10, 2007 at 12:02 am)

Just six companies currently control the distribution of some 90% of films at cinemas in the US. If the makers of the film have their way, the Internet will become much the same - a lucky powerful few who can afford to are able to distribute the films and music and so forth that they like across the web, while independent creators have to deal with second rate services.