Coming in the year 2012: The internet ends

[eits]

isn't that called collusion? isn't that... i dunno... illegal?

antitrust ftw.

 

[heymrdj]

Originally posted by: thecrecarc

Originally posted by: Sinsear

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
If this happens, I'm going to start the revolution

Sounds good. Do you know where I can buy some bulk bullets? Say 50 bullets.

Alternator shaped box?

Is that bulk bullets?

I want alternator sized bullets..

 

[miketheidiot]

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: Throckmorton

Originally posted by: Quintox
BS. Plus even IF it did happen, a new ISP would just come out that didn't do this and pwn all the others

Would that new ISP going to create a whole new internet?


I didn't watch the video and I assume it's exaggeration, but have you heard of the net neutrality issue? There isn't a capitalist solution for a problem that involves all of existing infrastructure.

I didn't watch the video either, but consider that all the backbones and lines are owned by only a few large telcos. They could easily bully out the smaller ISPs, especially with the support of misguided government.

I think our local mainlines are all owed by the local universities

 

[HannibalX]

Won't happen for all of the reasons already listed above.

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: miketheidiot

I think our local mainlines are all owed by the local universities

Okay, say they do own the local lines. What about the large, wide backbone pipes? Those are controlled by the telcos, and though could block traffic to the local lines unless they comply with the telco's service model.

I'm not saying that they plan on enacting a subscription internet scheme like this, however, do not be so quick to dismiss the power of corporate greed, with government ineptitude, and human stupidity.

 

[ObiDon]

Originally posted by: thecrecarc

Originally posted by: Sinsear

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
If this happens, I'm going to start the revolution

Sounds good. Do you know where I can buy some bulk bullets? Say 50 bullets.

Alternator shaped box?

Is that bulk bullets?

50 bullets? no. 50 boxes? maybe. 50 pallets? you probably live in texas.

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: ObiDon

Originally posted by: thecrecarc

Originally posted by: Sinsear

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
If this happens, I'm going to start the revolution

Sounds good. Do you know where I can buy some bulk bullets? Say 50 bullets.

Alternator shaped box?

Is that bulk bullets?

50 bullets? no. 50 boxes? maybe. 50 pallets? you probably live in texas.

Well, the number of bullets required would depend on your accuracy, wouldn't it? Pres, VP, Speaker of the House, 100 Senators, and 435 Representatives, plus the leadership of the large ISPs responsible.

Oi, I'm going to have to go in for my mandatory government re-education soon, aren't I?

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Pale Rider
Won't happen for all of the reasons already listed above.

If they collude to control the top and reject all non-member traffic it could.


Some of the big ISP's are already doing that with competitors and companies that wouldn't sell out 'accidentally'

 

[Throckmorton]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Throckmorton

Originally posted by: Quintox
BS. Plus even IF it did happen, a new ISP would just come out that didn't do this and pwn all the others

Would that new ISP going to create a whole new internet?


I didn't watch the video and I assume it's exaggeration, but have you heard of the net neutrality issue? There isn't a capitalist solution for a problem that involves all of existing infrastructure.

Umm, yes there is. Nobody owns the internet, nobody owns the infrastructure.

This is what I'm talking about, scare tactics by people that don't know how The Internet works.

What do you mean nobody owns the infrastructure?

 

[SSSnail]

Well, you DO have those fuggers that thought it's OK for ISP to throttle the bandwidth that you paid for. Let's bring those idiots out and toss them into this burning heap too.

 

[nonameo]

LOL. The internet is just a network. Build another one.

 

[dmcowen674]

Old news

I've been posting about this for years already.

 

[nobody554]

Awesome. Another story about how ISPs are going to try and charge for the internet like providers charge for cable and satellite.

 

[JS80]

Mark Cuban's crackpot idea sounds reasonable compared to this NN crap.

 

[elmer92413]

Proxies would become the new descramblers

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: JS80
Mark Cuban's crackpot idea sounds reasonable compared to this NN crap.

Wow that is one of the shittiest ideas I've ever heard. How the hell did he get rich?

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: Kev

Originally posted by: JS80
Mark Cuban's crackpot idea sounds reasonable compared to this NN crap.

Wow that is one of the shittiest ideas I've ever heard. How the hell did he get rich?

he got lucky. he sold broadcast.com to yahoo for billions. he knew he was milking the bubble and sold out of his yahoo stake before the bubble burst too.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

It's amazing that the internet has existed for this long without any real regulation, but I don't think it'll happen like this. The providers who do this will die so fast that those which don't will become monopolies - and then will be broken up and it will start all over again. I think some government control would have to be put in place before this happens - and that would cause such an uproar that whoever did it would be committing political suicide for my generation.

 

[Killmenow]

Isn't the 3rd guy in the middle of the video... "ATHENE" as in the "best paladin in the world?"

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Throckmorton

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Throckmorton

Originally posted by: Quintox
BS. Plus even IF it did happen, a new ISP would just come out that didn't do this and pwn all the others

Would that new ISP going to create a whole new internet?


I didn't watch the video and I assume it's exaggeration, but have you heard of the net neutrality issue? There isn't a capitalist solution for a problem that involves all of existing infrastructure.

Umm, yes there is. Nobody owns the internet, nobody owns the infrastructure.

This is what I'm talking about, scare tactics by people that don't know how The Internet works.

What do you mean nobody owns the infrastructure?

People are deluded into believing it works just like it did in the MIL/ARPAnet days. Schools and military sites sharing cable.

Today you have large corporations providing centralized locations where traffic gets sent to others. The small ISP that starts up knows they can leverage this infrastructure and send their traffic through it.

If these large corps, decided together that they are supplying too many resources for 'free' they can block anyone that hasn't paid. All it would take is simple changes to the protocol. Add a simple cipher even.

This has all been talked about a long time though and hasn't happened.

The day of $5+ gas has been talked about a long time too and we are getting there quickly.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: alkemyst
People are deluded into believing it works just like it did in the MIL/ARPAnet days.

Today you have large corporations providing centralized locations where traffic gets sent to others.

If these large corps, decided together that they are supplying too many resources for 'free' they can block anyone that hasn't paid.

All it would take is simple changes to the protocol. Add a simple cipher even.

This has all been talked about a long time though and hasn't happened.

The day of $5+ gas has been talked about a long time too and we are getting there quickly.

We have a winner!!! Somebody has been paying attention in the classroom.