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Originally Posted by Dcat
That deserves to be posted in full..
April 01, 2009
Most people here don't understand that the Internet is under full attack on ALL fronts. When Internet 2 is fully implemented, everyone here can kiss their Internet businesses good bye. Why, because under the plan major ISP's will convert over to a subscription based revenue model (similar to Cable) where you would purchase a subscription package and then only be permitted to visit certain websites included in the subscription package. Any other websites you would have to pay for. Guess what? No one is going to pay more to visit your porn site(s)! Traffic will be cut to 1/100th of what you have now. You will be put out of business. Don't cry when it's too late.
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I've been saying this was going to happen for a long time.. The ISP's are going to steal the internet right out from under everyone. It's why they have been pushing so hard to do away with net neutrality.
The cable companies along with Microsoft (ie M$ owns the patent) are going to end up pushing set top boxes like your current cable box that give you internet via your TV. Hence the reason they are so big on IP TV these days.
This way they can just rent you a internet access box and sell you a subscription plan. Makes it easy for non internet savy people and cheap being they don't have to keep buying new computers. At that point the cable companies will have it set up something like old school AOL, where everything is under one roof.
Mark my words this "IS" going to happen and while it might not be able to outright take full control of the net, it will damn sure take away a ton of traffic from normal sites allowing the big dogs to get even bigger.