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Heydan and other sites you enjoy may be harder to get too soon. Internet games and downloads will soon cost more. This is the future according to Congress.
BBC Report on U.S. House of Representatives has rejectioned Net Neutrality
First, why is the BBC/NPR the only news organizations that are covering this? Oh ya, ALL other media sources are owned one of six telecommunications companies. These companies are backing both this bill and the drive ageist Net Neutrality.
Let me start by explaining what I am talking about. Net Neutrality has nothing to do with you. They are not talking about your isp or even your blog/livejournal/photo hosting sites. What this has to do with are telcos and media service providers. ATT charging Google more to deliver movies then they charge your AOL to deliver your aunt’s cookie recipe.
The problem is that this means that ATT will make more money selling big pipe services, like movies. Your aunt’s email and your blog/livejournal/photo hosting site get ignored. In fact there is a financial incentive to lower their level of service to you. This will cause you hosting/email provider to have to pay the higher price to get ‘better’ service.
Take the example of World of Warcraft the wildly popular online game. Right now millions of players are subscribed to the game. The telco company makes the same amount providing the service for the game servers as they do for anyone else who wants that level of service (bandwith). The telco want to be able to charge them more because they use more of the bandwidth the telco already sold them.
The biggest problem I have with this is that the lines aren't the telco's to regulate in the first place. They were paid for by your tax dollars. Remember Al Gore invented the internet. Well he didn’t, but he did push to fund the building of it. The telcos were paid to build it by the tax dollars. In fact they went back several times to get more money to fund what is now a profitable enterprise. Stop and think about that.
Now go get involved: