Re: [PLUG] Net Neutrality

[Doug Stewart <zamoose@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Art Alexion <arthur@alexion.com> wrote:
> Addressing your last point first, are you saying that a consumer who, say wants
> access to ESPN.com AND their kid's Little League team's web site out to have
> to subscribe to multiple technologies?
>

No idea what you're talking about here. That's not part of the equation.

> In terms of the big providers' investments, weren't they made in a market
> without the tiered service they now intend to impose?  If your really care
> about markets, they should make their investments work in the envroment in
> which they made them.
>

Here's a question: do you think it's fair to have to pay more if you
use more of a service? Should nice Mrs. Figg down the road from you be
forced to subsidize your
pirated-over-produced-South-Korean-action-flick torrenting addiction?
Should you be allowed to essentially flood the neighborhood's
aggregate connection in order to watch live semi-clothed Slovakian
underwater tennis matches on ESPN360? Or can ISPs reasonably do some
amount of traffic shaping/QoS in order to try to make sure Mrs. Figg's
cross-stitch sampler patterns can arrive in a reasonable timeframe
too?

-- 
-Doug
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