Posted on 11/25/2010 4:24:51 AM PST by abb
I’m stuck out here in the country on a 56K dialup line. Tried satellite; didn’t like the delay.
I’d kill for DSL.
What is 3G :-)
There is no motivation for the ISPs to play along. As far as they are concerned, their best customers just surf the web on low bandwidth sites. Some even systematically eliminate customers that regularly use high intensity apps for P2P or even USENET.
Most are even getting out of USENET entirely, and throttling whenever and wherever they can. There will be no charity to Netflix, here.
Not without charging 'us' for it.
Yup. Same idea as the original VCR...."download" the TV/movie show to watch when you want to.
See page 40.
The creation of the media: political origins of modern communications
By Paul Starr
I know where you're going. That's why I posted, "What is 3G?" as a joke.
I got all excited about a 3G wireless gadget offered by Sprint. According to their coverage map, reception here should be quite good. I think their map lies. I bought the gadget and could not get it to connect.
When I called Sprint, they suggested I spend another $50 on a cell phone antenna. But, of course, would not guarantee that would fix the problem. I returned the gadget.
Now it appears a company named Open Range my install Wi-Max around here. That would be cool.
Netflixs streaming competition is primarily Hulu,
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I love Hulu BUT I pay the top price for Netflix. Get 3 DVD’s weekly but cannot stream anything without interruption.
I have called Netflix about this and had two differant answers. Neither were good. My provider is also confused.
I have DSL and watch Hulu and Netflix through their web interfaces.
YOUTUBE will become a paid-member only website soon.Just wanted to lock this in for future reference ...
Re: EMPBzzzt! Not so much as 'the press' would have you believe ...There will be lots of problems will electronics of all description
Hey great movie, thanks for the suggestion.
I ran across this paper while looking for some history on the early post office in England. It gives some information on how “government news and information” became free.
http://74.125.155.132/scholar?q=cache:qe9ySiEl3aAJ:scholar.google.com/&hl=en&as_sdt=8000000
POSTAL CENSORSHIP IN ENGLAND 1635-1844
BY SUSAN E. WHYMAN
You had asked about intellectual property rights. Here is some discussion on how that concept came to be. See pages 25-30 of this book.
The creation of the media: political origins of modern communications - By Paul Starr
This author would seem to argue that ‘copyright’ was created as something that served the interest of the state (control of the flow of information) and also served the purpose of a guild (Stationers).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worshipful_Company_of_Stationers_and_Newspaper_Makers
Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
Copyright
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