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Net Neutrality Stuck Down in US
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Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#1 - 2014-01-16 12:21:30 UTC
Verizon won their Federal Appeals Court case in The DC circuit court earlier this week. This case will be appealed again and even if they did not appeal it could take a year for the changes to take effect, but this could see the cost of our streaming sky rocketing. One new report this morning estimated that Netflix may end up having to pay ISP's between 75-100 million USD per year more than currently.

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Meyr
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
OnlyFleets.
#2 - 2014-01-16 13:43:46 UTC
This is way beyond "Totally F**ked Up" status.

On the other hand, maybe someone will come along and offer to provide unrestricted access, and dominate the market.
Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2014-01-16 14:01:39 UTC
Verizon went full ret ard

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Frostys Virpio: "We have to give it to him that he does put more effort than the vast majority in his idea but damn does it sometime come out of nowhere."
Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#4 - 2014-01-16 14:09:06 UTC
Reaver Glitterstim wrote:
Verizon went full ret ard


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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#5 - 2014-01-16 15:22:03 UTC
Oh boy. So they can now assign Netflix and other big guys a bigger chunk of the bandwidth and traffic flow. Therefore, we ordinary non-preferrential treatment customers will get lower prices, right? Surely they wouldn't make us pay the same price for less service? Surely the U.S. courts wouldn't let them get away with that? Sheesh.
Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#6 - 2014-01-16 15:54:46 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Oh boy. So they can now assign Netflix and other big guys a bigger chunk of the bandwidth and traffic flow. Therefore, we ordinary non-preferrential treatment customers will get lower prices, right? Surely they wouldn't make us pay the same price for less service? Surely the U.S. courts wouldn't let them get away with that? Sheesh.



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Sebastian N Cain
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2014-01-16 20:07:21 UTC  |  Edited by: Sebastian N Cain
Meyr wrote:
This is way beyond "Totally F**ked Up" status.

On the other hand, maybe someone will come along and offer to provide unrestricted access, and dominate the market.

Two words for you:

regional monopolies

The ISPs having a field day right now, inventing whole new ways to sodomize everyone and charging extra for the lube.

Just kidding, it's not going to happen. I mean the lube of course, the sodomy and extra charges are totally going to happen.

I got lost in thought... it was unfamiliar territory.
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
#8 - 2014-01-17 09:13:15 UTC
All hail the mightly Googlenet, saviour of us all? :P

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MicDeath Titan
No Mans Corp
#9 - 2014-01-17 10:14:06 UTC
Akita T wrote:
All hail the mightly Googlenet, saviour of us all? :P

Once Google starts to really expand, you can bet yer ass and front tail that all the lagtards of major backbone ISP's will start throwing antitrust lawsuits against Google. I don't mean the petty kind like it currently has, I am talking about full rear assault with no lubrication or slow start up.
Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2014-01-17 12:58:30 UTC
Q: Is this thread about corporate operations, or unwarranted rectal penetration?

A: They are synonymous terms.

FT Diomedes: "Reaver, sometimes I wonder what you are thinking when you sit down to post."

Frostys Virpio: "We have to give it to him that he does put more effort than the vast majority in his idea but damn does it sometime come out of nowhere."
Plastic Psycho
Necro-Economics
#11 - 2014-01-17 16:37:09 UTC
Of course, if this makes it past SCOTUS, there goes 'common carrier' status. Which opens the various carriers up to all manner of civil and criminal liability. They'll come to regret winning on this one.

And I will horselaugh.
Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2014-01-17 16:42:18 UTC
I hope you're right about that. Also, same number of likes.

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Frostys Virpio: "We have to give it to him that he does put more effort than the vast majority in his idea but damn does it sometime come out of nowhere."
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2014-01-17 17:15:17 UTC
We didn't want net neutrality anyway

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Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2014-01-17 17:56:21 UTC
Meyr wrote:
This is way beyond "Totally F**ked Up" status.

On the other hand, maybe someone will come along and offer to provide unrestricted access, and dominate the market.

For a reasonable *cough* premium...

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Doji Okakura
#15 - 2014-01-17 18:03:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Doji Okakura
Sebastian N Cain wrote:
regional monopolies

Try nation-wide competition suppression!

Here in Canada, Verizon was looking like one of the best things that could possibly happen to us. Rogers and Bell, who own this entire country, have no competition whatsoever and we are basically forced to pay the insane cable and wireless charges they slap us in the face with every month. When our own government tried to encourage competition from the US to come in and give us some relief, our telecom overlords did everything they could to block it. They even got their own employees (in the form of so-called "unions") to go out into the streets of major cities to protest.

How messed up is that?
Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2014-01-17 18:25:22 UTC
Of course you realize that when Verizon finds out what you guys are willing to put up with, they're going to give you the same ****?

Also, I work for Verizon customer service. Canadian customers are the best customers. A large number of the Verizon customers who call in are terrible people.

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Frostys Virpio: "We have to give it to him that he does put more effort than the vast majority in his idea but damn does it sometime come out of nowhere."
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
#17 - 2014-01-17 23:44:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Akita T
FTTB 100 Mbps down (and about half of that up) for 7 EUR (plus tax) per month.
No blocks, filters, traffic shaping nor anything like that, just raw unadulterated 'net access.
Oh, and also included in the package for some ISPs, complementary free WiFi in several high-traffic public locations.
That's what a typical Romanian ISP is offering to almost any private user in most of the larger cities.

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Commissar Kate
Kesukka
#18 - 2014-01-18 00:07:02 UTC
Akita T wrote:
FTTB 100 Mbps down (and about half of that up) for 7 EUR (plus tax) per month.
No blocks, filters, traffic shaping nor anything like that, just raw unadulterated 'net access.
Oh, and also included in the package for some ISPs, complementary free WiFi in several high-traffic public locations.
That's what a typical Romanian ISP is offering to almost any private user in most of the larger cities.


Here in Florida 100Mbps is about $200 a month.

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Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#19 - 2014-01-18 00:12:20 UTC
Commissar Kate wrote:
Here in Florida 100Mbps is about $200 a month.

You forgot it's landline for home use only.

FT Diomedes: "Reaver, sometimes I wonder what you are thinking when you sit down to post."

Frostys Virpio: "We have to give it to him that he does put more effort than the vast majority in his idea but damn does it sometime come out of nowhere."
Commissar Kate
Kesukka
#20 - 2014-01-18 00:27:34 UTC  |  Edited by: Commissar Kate
Reaver Glitterstim wrote:
Commissar Kate wrote:
Here in Florida 100Mbps is about $200 a month.

You forgot it's landline for home use only.
oops, Lol

Actually nevermind thats for Comcast Business.

Residential is $114/mo for 105 Mbps

I got 50mbps with a couple cable tv channels for $49.99 for a couple more months now.

-k8

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