2012: The Year The Internet Ends

[zebrum]

Here is a pretty interesting yet worrying article about how ISPs might move to a model where your subscription price depends on the sites you would like to access!

http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality

[madasahatter]

All seems a bit sandwich board man "the end of the world is nigh" to me.

Otoh, if I'm wrong, this post will be well forgotten by the time 2012 rolls around 

[Rik]

I'm just making a note to remind everyone, Mad... 

[talos2]

Didn't hear a word she said

[Simon]

That would be awful - almost modelled on pay-per-view TV.   

[madasahatter]

I'm just making a note to remind everyone, Mad... 

Cheers Rik - knew I could rely on you 

[Inactive]

That would be awful - almost modelled on pay-per-view TV.   

Perhaps that's the background to why Sky went in to BB.

[madasahatter]

Can't see it happening with BB to be honest - perhaps a couple of the big boys might go down that route, but the first one that does will just lose so many customers overnight - and I can't see them all acting together on it. Besides which, in the world of BB there will always be your IDNet type companies imo.

[MoHux]

All this must make the guy that thought up the internet in the first place turn in his Ferrari!! 


Mo

[Sebby]

Very true, Mo!