[dennisw]

Thanks for that wiki on net neutrality. Good information.

If telecoms really need more money they should charge heavy users more. I suppose a heavy user is someone downloading DVDs and TV shows and porn movies

[Notary Sojac]

If the telecoms want to throttle illegal filesharing I am fine with that. If they want to throttle legal streaming services like Netflix and Hulu I am completely NOT fine with that.

[angkor]

>>>> I suppose a heavy user is someone downloading DVDs and TV shows <<<<<

Which for example would include Netflix, which happens to be one of the big proponents of NN.

I literally just now finished watching a streaming Netflix movie (Bridge On The River Kwai), with my puny 1.5 Mbit DSL connection which gives 75 percent movie quality. Folks with faster broadband can watch 100 percent quality and even HD movies, which I cannot. So just to take this small example, streaming movies are running continuously for 90 minutes to 3 hours at 2 to 5 Mbits/sec

In some ways the Verizon and Cox arguments are legit... it’s their broadband plant and they are letting Netflix take the end-user movie distribution revenue for free.

On the other hand I have zero sympathy for them, they are both basically monopolies. We don’t let the electric company sell us lightbulbs.