Yesterday evening, I happened to catch the Lang / O'Leary exchange on CBC. Kevin, the realist of the duo, was musing about an end to the so-called net-neutrality - or what essentially amounts to Ineternet service providers charging a flat rate for an unlimited volume of data - his reasoning being that heavy consumers are realizing an unfair advantage. With more big networks moving toward offering audio / video streaming services online, bandwidth might soon be at a premium - given "micro-expansion" advancements don't keep-up. Either way, manufactured scarcity is the God given right of the supplier.
As a conservative minded person, I have no problem with this. Use more, pay more. It's the essence of our free market. Can't afford it? Consider cutting-back on your free video watching. Fair is fare.
Such a move would compel a return to the days when ordinary folk would treat their internet access as a pay-per-megabyte service... which indeed was the default in days of yore - before multiplexing aggregates turned the internet into a collectivist equation. Now that optimal efficiency has been fine-tuned to the point that unlimited bandwidth is a given, ISPs can effectively allocate dedicated buffer zones, making poor people think twice before they go on a bit torrent binge. As they should.
One of my friends seemed astounded to learn that I don't engage in downloading copyrighted material using bit torrents.
"Why not?" he asked.
"It's against the law," I said. He seemed confused.
I also predict a certain grass roots reflex might take place if ISPs were to adopt buck-per-gigabit payment scheme. Get your pencils out, all you fuckers who ascribe to my wisdom without giving me any credit, as I'm about to sneeze something out yet again:
WCAP - Wireless Collective Aggregate Protocol.
Wrap your regurgitating mind around THAT!
As a conservative minded person, I have no problem with this. Use more, pay more. It's the essence of our free market. Can't afford it? Consider cutting-back on your free video watching. Fair is fare.
Such a move would compel a return to the days when ordinary folk would treat their internet access as a pay-per-megabyte service... which indeed was the default in days of yore - before multiplexing aggregates turned the internet into a collectivist equation. Now that optimal efficiency has been fine-tuned to the point that unlimited bandwidth is a given, ISPs can effectively allocate dedicated buffer zones, making poor people think twice before they go on a bit torrent binge. As they should.
One of my friends seemed astounded to learn that I don't engage in downloading copyrighted material using bit torrents.
"Why not?" he asked.
"It's against the law," I said. He seemed confused.
I also predict a certain grass roots reflex might take place if ISPs were to adopt buck-per-gigabit payment scheme. Get your pencils out, all you fuckers who ascribe to my wisdom without giving me any credit, as I'm about to sneeze something out yet again:
WCAP - Wireless Collective Aggregate Protocol.
Wrap your regurgitating mind around THAT!
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