By Declan McCullagh
Published: Monday 12 June 2006
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Name
James Butler
Location
Los Angeles
Occupation
Internet Society - Los Angeles, Chairman, Board of Directors
Comment
Don't we already pay for bandwidth? My hosting provider allows my 1000GB of bandwidth each month for a set price. If my sites use more than that, I pay per GB. What could be more fair?
So now I'll have to pay for the extra bandwidth AND pay my upstream provider(s) for the 'luxury' of having a popular site.
Anybody know how many upstream providers are going to ding me for a nickel with each streaming video download?
Stupidity. Congress is going to hand a new capital stream to network providers for the same old stuff. Packets are packets are packets. It doesn't matter if they contain info about video or text ... they use the same bandwidth.
Back to Net neutrality slain
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