Re: U.S. Finance Sector Weighs In on Net Neutrality

[Greg Poirier <grep () reflexsecurity com>]

On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 08:20 -0400, Dude VanWinkle wrote:
> Question: What would a normal day of browsing the divided internet
> look like, assuming sourceforge doesnt pony up the extra bucks? Will
> you have timeouts to their page? Will your downloads slow down
> considerably?

Transferring data from news.google.com...
*makes pot of coffee*
Transferring data from news.google.com...
*does laundry*
... You get the picture.

Realistically, though, it would just mean that the cost of doing
business for large content providers goes up... probably to the point
that the buck's passed on to the consumer.  Suddenly, Yahoo will start
bundling all of their services into a single sign-on pay-for service for
something like $25 a year or more.

The frightening picture that could be painted is that these costs are
levied on not only the large content providers, but _any_ content
provider.  For instance, web hosting companies: there'd be a sort of
trickle effect down from the carriers to the colo facilities and then
they pass that on to the people renting bandwidth from them.  Hopefully
these costs aren't enough to start putting smaller web sites out of
business.

Am I being completely unrealistic or does anyone else think that this is
what we're looking at?

grep

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