U.S. House Votes Against ?Net Neutrality?

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/09/bu...html?src=busln

[WASHINGTON] ? The House of Representatives approved a measure on Friday that would prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from regulating how Internet service providers manage their broadband networks, potentially overturning a central initiative of the F.C.C. chairman, Julius Genachowski. ..

This bill will probably die in the Senate or be vetoed by President Obama.

[Few] of the debaters raised some of the more technical issues that are at the center of the debate over broadband regulation, like specialized services and tiered rates. Specialized services, for which a broadband company uses part of its Internet pipeline to deliver dedicated services to specific customers, worry regulators who fear that companies will invest more to develop those more profitable offerings while neglecting to update basic broadband service.

Representative Lee Terry, a Nebraska Republican, said during the debate that supporters of the F.C.C.?s order wanted ?to give the F.C.C. power over business plans,? by restricting the ability of broadband service companies to offer tiered service, for which customers pay based on the amount of Internet bandwidth they use.

Just as a customer at a fast-food restaurant pays more for a large Coke than for a small one, Mr. Terry said, Internet companies should be free to charge customers more if they consume a greater amount of bandwidth because of heavy use of features like streaming video. ...

Sounds like subscription digital video ? Netflix and Hulu come to mind ? is a threat to Cable ISPs. Some ISPs want to charge you four times the going rate for bandwidth as overages. Why is that?

As usual, if passed this will cost you. Deregulation sounds nice but it does not always increase competition and lower prices.

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oh boo hoo.

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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam

This bill will probably die in the Senate or be vetoed by President Obama.

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If you had a website that broadcast streaming video you might be alarmed ? this will have an affect of consumers either paying more or avoiding sites that broadcast ? when the route to youtube is a route that your ISP charges you for maybe then you will care.

A lot of places in the world have bandwidth caps now.

$50 or $100 a month is not a big deal to me personally but it might influence our customer spend and our own, our Models' and Affiliates' net earnings.

What's your website?

And if you are a paying porn consumer do you mind paying more to see live streaming porn?

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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam

If you had a website that broadcast streaming video you might be alarmed ? this will have an affect of consumers either paying more or avoiding sites that broadcast ? when the route to youtube is a route that your ISP charges you for maybe then you will care.

This won't affect shit. The so called NN law was weak as to begin with as to not mean much of anything. The GOP controlled house was too stupid to see this and thought they were actually doing something. Hell the NN law was written by lobbyists for at&t and Verizon so really how tough was it to begin with?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network..._ legislation

Look like all the bills end up dead ... More bullshit posturing?