'Pay to play' on the Web?: Net neutrality explained(If your ISP doesn't like FR...)

CNN ^ | 1/15/2014 | CNN

[Dallas59]

How would you like to have to pay a fee to be able to stream YouTube videos at full speed? What if you liked downloading music from, say, Last.fm or Soundcloud, but those sites suddenly became infinitely slower than bigger sites like Amazon or iTunes?

Those are the kind of major changes to the Internet some folks are envisioning after a federal court ruling this week on what's come to be called "net neutrality."

This stuff can get really confusing, with all the government jargon, Internet lingo and competing arguments mixed up in it.

But it's also really important and could rework the Web as we know it -- like allowing the hypothetical situations above become realities.

Here's a breakdown of what this week's ruling could mean to you.

What is "net neutrality?"

[VanDeKoik]

Ok?

Have they done anything? No.

Until guilty until proven innocent becomes the norm, I’m not going to convict these companies on what someone thinks they will do.

[dayglored]

What they’ve done is make it clear they want it. It doesn’t take Einstein to figure out why.

If a married man is seen in the company of a sexy younger woman who is not his wife, and talks glowingly about her, and spends lots of money on her, and argues for a divorce and spends a lot of time and money getting one, when he finally gets the decree, what do you think is going to happen?

You’re arguing that “well he hasn’t slept with the younger woman yet and shows no evidence of wanting to”. I think that’s naive to a laughable degree. The evidence is clear as glass.

[GOPJ]

Thanks...