Thread: Net neutrality
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Old 2010-08-14, 14:21   Link #5
Anh_Minh
I disagree with you all.
 
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
I'm... unclear on what problem you expect proxies or pirating your neighbor's wifi is going to solve.

I mean, the big issue of differentiated services is that they provide an edge to those who can afford them. It allows them to provide faster service. But commercial sites can't pirate their neighbor's wireless, if only because it lacks the bandwidth to allow them to make it big, and if they can't do that, what's the point? (Also, legal actions... It's harder for them to get away with that sort of thing.) As for proxies, they actually lengthen the trip down the internet metaphorical tubes and introduce more delay and load on the network. What's the point?

Or did you mean our capacities to use the internet to download stuff illegally? Well, yeah, it's not really threatened. But that's not the point, is it?
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