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Internet Conspiracy: Site-by-Site Subscriptions by 2012

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http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality

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06/01/2008 - Every significant Internet provider around the globe is currently in talks with access and content providers to transform the internet into a television-like medium: no more freedom, you pay for a small commercial package of sites you can visit and you'll have to pay for seperate subscriptions for every site that's not in the package.
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Sounds convincing, but the date 2012, that always makes me think "Mayan doomsday prophecy"

The Pokemon fanbase, and the fanbase of all other franchises will be destroyed as we know it :/

What I find most hilarious is that picture at the bottom where they charge you an extra ten dollars for the use of Search Engines. Honestly, what's going to pop up? Wikepedia articles? With only 200 websites in that package, I will actually have to go to libraries to do a research paper. This is more ridiculus than the idea of having a written volume of Wikipedia.

Goodbye Bubagarden.
 
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It's fearmongering being bandied about for the past... 2 years? It's actually just one of a proposed set of possible solutions to bandwidth and net structure issues - as well as people trying to make a buck.

The thing is though, the Internet's just a bunch of computers connected to eachother - it's rather impossible to regulate in the way proposed, especially when it's a worldwide network with many ISPs across many countries and many law-landscapes.

The amount of users of the Internet that know what they're doing and have the technical clout against the ISPs would shoot any such attempts down.

Not that I'm even sure any such plan would be technically possible, let alone financially responsible.

I wouldn't buy into the fearmongering just yet.
 
It'll never happen. It would kill the internet, pretty much. It would be impossible to regulate, too. Large commercial websites might do it, but that would just assure their eventual demise.
 
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