You may have heard, or like most Americans have no idea, that the Internet Providers want to charge special rates for "full access" and if you don't pay you get a slower pipe. They don't want you to pay, they want the websites to pay - i.e. if Google wants a fast loading website on AT&T lines, they need to pay AT&T more money. If AT&T were a mafia, this would be called "protection money." As you would guess, Google is against this. They already paid access to the internet from their ISP, you paid your ISP and both ISPs paid AT&T for the connection to AT&T lines directly or thought a middle ISP. So AT&T wants to double change for something that's already been paid for. Read more about the bills in congress here. (Relax it's a video, no reading required).
So what can you do about it? Write your congressman and hope is pockets aren't too deeply lined with corporate money. Or, you can write a song. Yes, three girls got together and wrote a song called "God Save the Internet" - I'll bet Bono is fuming mad he missed his chance at this cause. Hell, it's not that bad of a song, and beats the crap out of the last attempt.
Posted By Mike On Wednesday, June 14, 2006
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Comments (2)
Gabriel.
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006
7:07:52 PM
Someone was telling me in-game that Blizzard is on AT&T's side. Heh. They want more bandwidth, dag nabbit. Must kill orcs faster!
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Mike
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006
7:38:26 PM
Blizzard pwnd by Vivendi which also pwns telcoms and is the killer of dreams.
