Re:We are throttling the FCC to dialup modem speeds until th...
by Nanzikambe on Thursday May 08, 2014 @07:29PM
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You know, whilst this i true, there're definitely many solutions.
To use your example of Netflix: they could work incrementally through a list of ISPs and make object lessons of them. What do I mean? Well, take Comcast, Netflix/Google/whomever subsidizes the ISPs competitors through value added offers. Eg. 100gb of Google Drive space for each comcast user that switches to <insert non-shitty ISP here>. Do that for a month or so, then move to the next ISP. The benefits from this far out-weight the negatives, the idea here isn't a mass switch from ISP A to ISP B, more the publicity such an action would generate - would make the ISPs position untenable.
I would LOVE to see this done across the board to obliterate ISPs control of their customers content. Filter my porn? Fuck you! Throttle my bit-torrent? Fuck you! etc etc
To use your example of Netflix: they could work incrementally through a list of ISPs and make object lessons of them. What do I mean? Well, take Comcast, Netflix/Google/whomever subsidizes the ISPs competitors through value added offers. Eg. 100gb of Google Drive space for each comcast user that switches to <insert non-shitty ISP here>. Do that for a month or so, then move to the next ISP. The benefits from this far out-weight the negatives, the idea here isn't a mass switch from ISP A to ISP B, more the publicity such an action would generate - would make the ISPs position untenable.
I would LOVE to see this done across the board to obliterate ISPs control of their customers content. Filter my porn? Fuck you! Throttle my bit-torrent? Fuck you! etc etc
Ah wishful thinking, but you get the idea :)