OFF-TOPIC-BUT-IMPORTANT: End of free internet model by 2012 ?
Hi everybody on the list ! Sorry about the off-topic message, but giving the nature of the message and the nature of the list (after all, everybody here uses Internet or develops for web in some way), I decided to post this here and see what you guys think about it. http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality To quote the article (so you know if it interests you or not): "Bell Canada and TELUS (formerly owned by Verizon) employees officially confirm that by 2012 ISP's all over the globe will reduce Internet access to a TV-like subscription model, only offering access to a small standard amount of commercial sites and require extra fees for every other site you visit. These 'other' sites would then lose all their exposure and eventually shut down, resulting in what could be seen as the end of the Internet." It is important to note that, although the article mentions Bell Canada, it is not that hard to imagine that this will eventually be expanded to all big ISPs. Thanks and again, I apologize for this off-topic message ! Daniel -- What this world needs is a good five-dollar plasma weapon.
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Daniel Bonekeeper <thehazard@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everybody on the list !
Sorry about the off-topic message, but giving the nature of the message and the nature of the list (after all, everybody here uses Internet or develops for web in some way), I decided to post this here and see what you guys think about it.
My gut feeling is that you are being taken by some fairly amateurish viral marketing, and that you've played into it by uncritically regurgitating the message onto these mailing lists. Googling "Dylan Pattyn" yields only references to this very video and a site for a performance art/activist group called IPower, which boasts such "projects" as "an suicide-awareness campaign disguised as a personal suicide blog", a self-described "online stunt" called "40,000 Blowjobs", and a "wacky online reality series". Really, do you honestly think that Time Magazine would use a twenty-something freelancer, who has never published anything in any major periodical, to break a news article that would at the least create a decade or more of anti-trust lawsuits? -- Tim Lesher <tlesher@gmail.com>
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