Re: all web sites will not be equal if the telecoms giants get their way....

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 20:38:16 +0100 'Chris X'
posted this onto uk.politics.misc:

"hummingbird" <OPRBMDQMZNLV@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:29:51 +0200 'abelard'
posted this onto uk.politics.misc:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article754416.ece
"Telecom and cable companies are in effect being allowed to erect toll
booths along the information superhighway - and individuals who post
their
own videos or blogs online could find their websites confined to the
internet's B-roads or even blocked altogether.

Instead of an anarchic free-for-all that has dramatically broadened free
speech and democratised access to information, the internet would come
to
be dominated by the giant internet and media companies that could afford
to pay to make their content most easily available, campaigners say."


comment solicited...

Without details of how it would work, useful comment is difficult but
this caught my eye in the article:

what is different from now?

I don't know.
There is insufficient information to assess what they're up to.

"A law that would have enshrined the neutrality of the Net was voted
down by congressmen late on Thursday."

interference in a market place?

Naturally. That's America's standard MO.
Free markets are something Americans talk about but don't practice.

Is this America spreading freedom or doing what it always does?

you tell me....

I can't - you haven't provided enough information.

you seem to be avoiding commitment which is par for you.....

Not at all. See above. I can only guess or attempt a confused long
drawn out explanation like your mate.

as yet i can't see what the fuss is about.....that is why i solicited
comment

My guess is that they're up to something to suck in more money by
controlling bandwidth to ensure those with big money get priority
access - eg American big media corps owned by Jews.

It might be aimed at news websites/blogs who are undermining big
media's hold on public lies and disinformation. Poor little sites like
yours might take forever to load ...tch tch.

Welcome back ! Did you see this .... the shape of things to come, maybe ?

Thanks, I hope I've brought the sun back with me from sunny Seville!


http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=47429

The music industry's effort to charge for music files on the Internet got a
major boost on Friday as file sharing service providers blocked access to
music files.
Responding to music industry requests to block illegal music sharing, the
association of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing service providers in South
Korea have decided not to allow transfers of MP3 music files, as of Friday.

"We held an urgent meeting last week, and eight of 11 member companies
agreed to block MP3 files until we find ways to charge users," said Jun
Hyun-sung, chairman of the association. However, he refused to name the
eight companies because he worries they may suffer a disadvantage in
negotiations with the music industry.

MP3 music files which can be played on PCs, cell phones, MP3 players and
various other digital gadgets have been freely shared on the Internet in
South Korea, even though the courts last year ruled such activity illegal.

I don't use P2P these days, almost every MP3 I d/l is from Usenet
and if that was blocked people can just change the filetype to .zip
or something or even zip-up an MP3 to get through the ISP filters.
Then of course there's a number of websites with free music...

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or a Liberal Democrat, but you can't be a New Labour democrat because
that is a contradiction in terms." ...Henry Porter
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