The Center for Digital Democracy has put together an elegant explanation of the heightening battle between the telecommunications industry and everybody else that uses the Internet. A lengthy read (for an Internet article), the CDD has outlined what the telcos aim to accomplish and how it affects everything in the future.
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Over half of the Web's estimated 600-plus billion pages derive from nonprofit sources. With the cable-telco duopoly's plans for tiered access (i.e., charging content providers for guaranteed high-speed delivery), all of that noncommercial content, along with perhaps three-fourths of commercial programming whose producers either cannot or will not pay the operators' extortionate rates, will be squeezed onto the digital equivalent of a dirt road.
Traffic on this last vestige of the erstwhile "public" Internet will move at a crawl, leaving most users with little alternative than to turn to broadband's new private, premium lanes, where Network Neutrality is no longer the rule of the road.
This makes sense considering the past. Think per-minute packages for cellular phones, where peak minutes, text data transfer charges, pay-per-transmission schemes prevail. What "cable-telco duopoly" has in mind is pay-per-email, pay-per-view, pay-per-upload, pay-per-download, pay-per-thought, pay-per-keystroke.
And there's a lot of money in such schemes, which is a clue to why these industries are fighting so hard and spending so much lobbying Congress to get their way.
To review Murdok coverage on the Net Neutrality issue,  {
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