Mark Cuban: Professional Troll

DSL Reports ^ | 8/4/09 | Karl Bode

[steve-b]

One gets the feeling that if Dallas Mavericks owner and HDNet CEO Mark Cuban wasn't absolutely terrified of broadband video, he wouldn't be constantly ranting about how broadband video is going to fail. Cuban's spent the last five years urging ISPs to block P2P, supporting the cable industry's vision of net neutrality (as in: none), insisting the Internet is dead, lamenting broadband video's shortcomings and generally pouting a lot.

Apparently, Cuban believes that if he scares his readership enough, the inevitable advertising revenue losses cable TV will someday feel from online video won't actually happen. This week on the Mark Cuban show, the vociferous Internet celebrity urges everyone who operates a TV network to support net neutrality. Why the sudden turnaround? Because the Internets will collapse and Internet video will die!...

[exist]

Dude. Without p2p my life would be 10x worse.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Not on the level of Fred Phelps or old battycakes...but ya Cuban was always an irl troll/

[Milhous]

Dinomediac wants to save broadcasting by killing teh interweb bits.

If you run a TV network, broadcast or cable, you should be spending a lot of money to support Net Neutrality. Why ? Because in a net neutrality environment no bits get priority over any other bits. When that happens, bits collide. When bits collide they slow down. Sometimes they dont reach their destination and need to be retransmitted. Often they don't make it at all. When video bits dont arrive to their destination in a timely manner, internet video consumers get an experience that is worse than what traditional tv distribution options.

[xjcsa]

Mark Cuban may well be a troll, but “Net Neutrality” is just a front for putting the nanny state in charge of the internet.