“EVERYONE WITH AN INTERNET CONNECTION WILL PAY FOR YOUR DAMN NETFLIX!!!!!!!”
“I don’t use Netflix. I don’t plan on using Netflix and I don’t feel I should have to pay for your Netflix.”
Do you work in the industry? I ask because I think that is a red herring. The wholesale cost of data is minimal. The real fight is to keep up the retail cost of data. Replacing $120/mo data with $9/mo data is a real threat to the industry. The cost of actually sending that data is inconsequential in comparison.
I can see you being upset enough to find the cap lock key if your living depends on people buying that $120 package.
Heck no, I don’t work in the cable television industry. I work in IT, but I don’t rely on overcharged services and that’s not what gets my caps key aflutter. It’s the sheer idiocy of the literal MORONS who want to bring in government regulators to solve a problem that doesn’t even really exist yet. How idiotic can one be to even suggest such a thing? Yet, they’ve got this great sales pitch and are even here on conservative sites telling us how ‘necessary’ it is and now wonderful this ‘net neutral world’ is. Barf.
If you want to see what I’m talking about, find out the specs of your internet connection and then call up your cable company and ask them for a business connection with the same specs. You’ll probably be in shock for a couple of days after hearing the price.
When they sell you a business connection, they expect you to use the connection to its full capacity, so you are charged accordingly. This is not the case with a residential connection. With a residential connection, they bank on making money by you not using your full capacity. The idea is that so few actually will that it all balances out in the end.
Then, Netflix comes along and all of a sudden the users are using a lot more of their capacity and they’re increasing every day. Something has to give somewhere. Either you’re going to have to pay more for Netflix to allow for the service to operate on your ISP, OR the entire way you pay for residential broadband access will have to change. Either way, Netflix is going to cost a lot more.
And either way, the government has ZERO place in getting involved in regulating the content of the internet. Especially in the name of ‘fairness’ or ‘neutrality’ or whatever, because the government has never in history used words like that for the force of good and sure as hell aren’t likely to start now.