AT & T Wireless Says it Will End P2P Users, Wu's Many Mistaken Metaphors
| Posted by Hungry Lion at 31 July 2008 2:8 | |
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Love this article! Those wireless broadband internet posts are awesome! Can't wait to see what comes up next!
It is something always coming out on top.
In today's New York Times, Tim Wu writes in favor new regulation of the Internet and uses several bad analogies to do so. Let us count the ways. My colleague Adam Thierer has already noted that opec is a group of mostly government-run oil companies whereas U.S. broadband service providers are private companies operating in an intensely competitive environment. Wu bungles another analogy between oil and bandwidth. Wu writes, "Americans today spend almost as much on bandwidth — the ..[next].
Even though it comes from another planet far, far away, (that's kidding) and even tough it is different, strange and a little freaky, they deserve respect and understanding just like all of articles on Internet, because it is totally amazing new idea of wireless broadband internet.
The RIAA isn't alone in looking at peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic as the scourge of the internet. Many of the largest ISPs in the U.S. are also looking to ways to curtail P2P traffic on their networks. The first things cited by ISPs when they start to look for places to cut traffic or charge more for service is P2P traffic. AT&T has publically stated that it will ban wireless phone subscribers from using P2P programs and that any subscriber caught using P2P services will be ended. ..read all.
In a modern context, I think I should remember author's message. This whole issue discussed here will be welcomed by wondering readers, not permissive, not undisciplined.
As the crescendo of criticism builds against the FCC's pending publication of its new rules for Internet access providers, the New York Times emerges as the sole source of pro-FCC coverage. They publish a bizarre Op-Ed by Free Press chair Tim Wu equating competing carriers with OPEC and mistaking the general trend in broadband prices - sharply down - with the trend for gas prices, which goes in the opposite direction entirely: AMERICANS today spend almost as much on bandwidth — the ..».
If this is not what I am trying to find, my attitude won't be so honest at the first place. Trust me, that is what I am talking about!
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