Net Neutrality
Net Neutrality. What a fun topic.
I thought I’d just mention something that people who are anti-net neutrality and think content providers should pay for bandwidth: We already do.
We pay for our own ISP [either a server host or whatnot] to carry out data to the internet. What you thought those 10 Gigabit connections from datacenter to a backbone were free? Of course not! Thousands and thousands per month, thank you very much!
Even me, owning a single server, I still have to pay for bandwidth. $100 for 1 TB out. And since that’s right out of my pocket, I sure as hell ain’t going to pay again to some ISP that thinks Capped.TV should pay for the bandwidth on their network. I already paid!
Thank you.
May 10th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Unless you’re a big ISP or something, I see no reason you shouldn’t support net neutrality, the whole point of the internet is that it’s a level playing field, once you spend the amount of money to get on the internet, you have access to the same content as everyone else (not at the same speeds, but you get what I’m getting at hopefully). When we start charging for certain things, or slowing certain things down, the internet starts losing it’s magic.
We already pay for [hopefully uncensored] access to the internet, barring illegal activities, ISPs should have no say in what we can or can’t do. Period.