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Excellent Point!
I couldn't agree with you more! This amounts to punishing content providers for being popular. What's the point of creating a service that people want if you're going to have access to it strangled.

Google or iTunes can prob'ly afford to pay for their bandwidth better than Vonage, for instance, but once you start manipulating what content gets priority on your network you are no longer a comunications carrier. At that point you become a monitoring and filtering service and should lose the advantages that data/communications carriers have such as not being responsible for what is in the content.
[Inexact analogy warning! This isn't very good but it's the best I could think of at the moment.] It's one thing to fine the TV networks and broadcasters for "wardrobe malfunctions". It's quite different to fine the cable companies and satellite providers for transmitting that content. If you are restricting, monitoring and prioritizing traffic based on content you become part of the content service, as opposed to merely a conduit carrying the service, even though you aren't part of the content production team. Maybe the telcos would think twice about the liability they are assuming by intruding into the data flow process that far.
Posted by: Still Lynn   Posted on: 03/16/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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YES.  HypnoToad | 03/15/06
I PAID  CobraA1 | 03/15/06
No kidding  voska | 03/15/06
WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING????  BUCKWHEATONRICE | 03/15/06
connection fee, YES !  hotshop123 | 03/16/06
Please send me the URL ...  Jake Danger | 03/15/06
You realize  maxo_z | 03/15/06
Not communism!!!  OhMyGosh | 03/15/06
Application Neutrality  amorde | 03/15/06
Exactly  george_ou | 03/15/06
That is a fantastic idea  el1jones | 03/15/06
Good idea  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 03/15/06
NET NEUTRALITY  NATE72 | 03/15/06
Yeah, what happened to all the unused dark fiber?  ordaj@... | 03/15/06
Do you even need a Telco anymore?  voska | 03/15/06
Verizon 'just here to help' ??  bjornafreeman@... | 03/15/06
Its about iTunes  SirLanse | 03/15/06
Bogus arguments???  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/15/06
Thats a VERY good point.  Been_Done_Before | 03/15/06
I thought the same thing..  Patrick Jones | 03/15/06
Yes but that's why google pays on their end  maxo_z | 03/15/06
Doesn't matter how much Google pays their ISP  John Zern | 03/16/06
So the user is on your ISP's network, right?  ac2_z | 03/17/06
Excellent Point!  Still Lynn | 03/16/06
Real target: VoIP Providers  ejhonda | 03/15/06
power to control the internet is real power  MIS Master | 03/15/06
VoIP is Premium  cdiazh | 03/15/06
NET NEUTRALITY  NATE72 | 03/15/06
You obviously don't know how VOIP works...  BitTwiddler | 03/15/06
No VoIP in NOT a broadband hog  ac2_z | 03/15/06
VoIP is minimal data.  maxo_z | 03/15/06
voip is not a premium. Packets are packets  adr5@... | 03/16/06
Cell long distance is free too!  Still Lynn | 03/16/06
If they want to charge by usage...  jasonp@... | 03/15/06
If you agree to allow this, then get out your Nickels and Dimes...  BitTwiddler | 03/15/06
A Little History  srichardson@... | 03/15/06
Well said!!  TJGodel | 03/15/06
Bandwidth hogs? That's Spin.  ordaj@... | 03/15/06
It's always comes down to the bottom line.  Jake Danger | 03/15/06
Comcast  Patrick Jones | 03/15/06
The dollar IS king  shraven | 03/16/06
Yes we should. We do it everywhere else, why not here  John Zern | 03/15/06
Put a meter on your broadband connection...  wizzzer | 03/15/06
They already are paying.  maxo_z | 03/15/06
You don't understand. Key phrase: "On their end"  John Zern | 03/16/06
Your ISP must really suck  ac2_z | 03/17/06
Then they should move outside USA  jason.mailley | 03/15/06
we are already paying  adr5@... | 03/16/06
Broadband is purchased  bjbrock | 03/15/06
The reality in most of the developed world  alricsca | 03/15/06
High speed is even better in the 3rd world  jason.mailley | 03/15/06
In no way should anyone pay more.  TJGodel | 03/15/06
WEBHOGS  mjd420nova | 03/15/06
"customers would not allow this to happen"  The Reverend | 03/15/06
wake up sucker  shraven | 03/16/06
Nader ? And you call me a sucker? HA HA HA.  The Reverend | 03/20/06
They aren't adding up...  hawkeyeaz1 | 03/15/06
Free? Who is really trying to get the lunch here...  supercharlie | 03/16/06
Bandwidth is already paid for by everyone that uses it.  bharris0 | 03/16/06
Bandwith hogs  paidfare | 03/16/06
Article Needed on How it Really Works  Lynne's Honey | 03/18/06
The Imaginary Problem of Net Neutrality  AJ Carey | 03/20/06
it's about time!  oldhats | 03/20/06

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