http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/06/n...neutrality-us-court-r_n_526972.html


"Comcast swung an ax at the FCC to protest the BitTorrent order," Scott said. "And they sliced right through the FCC's arm and plunged the ax into their own back."

Big Money 1, Government 0.

Usually any win for Comcast is a loss for the general public. This is no exception.

not if you listen to jay severin. he claims that this is the freedom doctrine and will destroy conservative radio.

Pretty soon you'll have to pay 5.99 to comcast just to view one site.

I hope it's this site and I get a cut.

Sure you may get a "cut" but that doesn't mean people are going to pay $9.99 a month for the "METAL BLOG AND FORUM PACKAGE" on top of what they pay for their internet. If the court continues to rule in favor of bullshit terrible ISPs like comcast, the internet as we view it now will never be the same.

got it, you would rather a big company get the money and not me.

no what i said was that yea through a contract by ISPs your site would be put into the 100 site METAL BOG AND FORUM PACKAGE. Customers can spend the extra money to actually be able to visit your site by purchasing that package. What I'm saying is how many people do you feel are going to pay? Its the principal of the thing and its something the ISPs shouldn't even be THINKING of doing, but they are. You want to play fantasy sports? Well pony up the $5-$10 for the sports package. You like to shop online? Well give us another $5-$10 for the retail and shopping package. These handcuffs on the internet are a very REAL idea ISPs like comcast are pushing.

Never thought you'd be rooting for the FCC but...there you go...
They throttle bandwidth and they lose customers. Unfortunately in many areas they have a monopoly on the network but there ARE other ISP resellers out there that don't use the Comcast network (which much of their network is sublet-ed from backbone providers). The worst part though is that ISP customers won't even know the difference because they don't know what the hell they're paying for.

I love how you niggas are realizing this now.

nigga ive been posting about net neutrality since comcast started trying to get their dick wet in our wallets 3 years ago.

good thing i'm a charter customer though. this still pisses me off.

like reim said, IF comcast has their way, you wouldn't see any extra money, and less users hit your site, because they would hold they keys to what their subscribers could access. the internet would become a tiered service like cable tv channels are. you want the social networking package, that's $5 a month. youtube and hulu? $15 a month because that means you'd be watching less tv.

The actual content providers (like how YouTube is part of Google) would be pretty pissed about this. That's why Google is siding with the FCC on this one.

I really don't see this ruling have too many far-reaching implications because of that. Even if Comcast did restrict these there are ways around it. It's the friggin internet.

Millions of people would revolt if the Internet is no longer "free"

That too. It's funny Comcast doesn't care what their customers are capable of. If you wanted to flood them with support calls and angry customers and terminate service to a neighborhood...the com lines are RIGHT THERE.

Bring bcak mediaone roadrunner.

Cumcast sucks.

haha one of the best skits they did

LOL @ u being ill-informed as to our being ill-informed

IT'S NOT A TRUCK

lol @ loling @ that but @ loling a lol @ why is my myst cd so scratched

Did you perchance run it through a series of tubes?

You are all newbs, this ruling just opens the door to comcast's death, so many new providers will pop up offering cheaper service.

I'm gonna offer a heavy metal homosexual dating service through my own highly stylized ISP. I'll be rich.

And then I'll live in a morbid castle with my own harem and I'll eat lots of lopsters while I watch snuff movies and videos of children in Africa starving to death.

Then I'll grow an aristocratic mustash and wear belly shirts with my band's logo on them and I'll be terribly rude and people will hail my creative genius.

Today it's our internet. Tomorrow it's our ore refinery's and tesla coils.

AND OUR DIRIGIBLES


OH THE HUMANITY

Dirigibles haven't been invented yet, I take it you're one of those sheeple who think there were tanks in WW1

STFU AND BUILD MOAR PYLONS

TRY TO BUILD STRUCTURES OFF THE CREEP, YOU WON'T

SO MANY NUBS WAT DO I DO