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Quorum posted:Bleh. Half of the other websites I browse have, for some reason, decided to become terrified because "we didn't get to read the proposal before it was voted on" and "but now the evil gubmint will get to ban porn" and "obamacare for the internet." Even places like Imgur, which I'm flabbergasted even has a community. It's frustrating, Mark Cuban sang the content censorship line on CNBC before the vote, but that wasn't nearly as galling as when he said that under Net Neutrality, you're going to need a BOX to make TV look like TV because that extra bandwidth you've been begging for has to come from somewhere, and if the corporations can't tack on extra infrastructure without jumping through new fed-mandated hoops, we are hosed. The problem with that line of thinking is that my cable company has been peeling off analog channels from the basic TV package for years before Internet Title II status started looking like a doable thing, and to get your "full package" you're already going to need some type of box or their Roku app (that's their genuine alternate suggestion). So Cuban's predicting the horrible dystopia of what the market started doing on its own a few years ago.
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Tuna_Fish_Odyssey posted:So long as we're posting idiotic editorials:  Holy crap, it's happening already. 
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FRINGE posted:Is it a named author? It might be, but if you want to find out, it's gonna cost ya.
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Pauline Kael posted:poo poo indeed. I see a lot of stuff from the Clinton and Bush administrations, but nothing recent. My question was simple - please show me subsidies that telcos (I dont know anything about cable) are receiving today to roll out broadband. By today, I mean, if telcoX spends $10 on February 27th 2015, will they get a subsidy for it. And if so, by whom? The Connect America Fund is probably the major one that's going to be effected by yesterday's vote. Beginning this year (and for the next five), $1.8 billion per year is going to be earmarked for a broadband deployment fund to bring high-speed access to areas that don't have it. The money is being shifted from the Universal Service Fund, and major ISPs get first refusal for subsidy territories. Otherwise it goes to a bid. I'm a little bit floored that nobody had this on hand, since the definition of broadband which was part of yesterday's Title II decision ties directly into what qualifies as "broadband deployment" for Connect America. When they announced it last April, one of the strings attached was a minimum download rate which would qualify as broadband for the purposes of qualifying for the come-and-get-it bell. For the 2014 Connect America Fund announcement, it was 10M. In the weeks leading up to yesterday's vote, they said they were redefining the minimum as 25M. So it does actually have an impact beyond what they can call the service in the ads. EasyEW fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Feb 28, 2015 |
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Nintendo Kid posted:When people say it has no effect, we're referring to the vast majority of the forum's experience. Like if you already got service, it's not going to get you faster or better service any time soon. And if you don't already have broadband, you probably aren't on here. It's only an effect on deployment in unserved markets, sure, but from the industry side of it, you've got to figure that's a big "only".
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Nintendo Kid posted:No it ain't. It is in fact a bundled service, not a la carte in the least. The problem with that view is that Netflix currently views its VOD streaming service as a single network, like a post-linear HBO. The company says that (and in pretty unambiguous terms) in its long-term view note. If that's the definition that prevails, the only unbundling to be done would involve content partners going into business for themselves, like Shout! Factory did a few months ago.
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Good morning, ISPs. Here are your new rules. Pardon the hit and run, but 400 pages is a little bit much to take in when I'm already running late. EasyEW fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Mar 12, 2015 |
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karthun posted:You have never used akamai? There was CoralCDN too, but it doesn't seem to be working anymore.
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