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What a moronic statement.
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No, what's moronic (an childish) is name call over the internet.
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youtube.com is paying over $1 million a month for bandwidth, by some accounts. That is their fair share.
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Based on what??? Do you have intimate knowledge of every dollar spent across the net and open book access to cost of every company who carries youtube's bandwidth?
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The real reason for a 'tiered internet' is that phone companies are losing revenue to Vonage and other IP-based phone services. That is the 'free market.'
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Any phone or cable company can start and run IP-based services; that's free market. I challenge Vonage to wire every home in the country for IP-based phone service; that too would be free market.
Doesn't matter where you send your bill, your "service provider" is the phone and cable infrastructure. This whole thing started because some of these guys proposed spending billions of dollars to upgrade the internet to be able to handle more content - above and beyond that natural move to broadband. Not to tier the current 'net; but to add a new tier.
AFAIK, the idea of tiering the net has been no more than a proposal up to this point as a way to pay for it; met by panic and 1/2 info as always.
Surely you wouldn't pay premium price for regular gas, or penthouse rent for a 1 br apt? So are you going to ask Grandma dial-up who e-mails once a month to pay the same a John broadband who spanks his meat to porn 12 hrs a day?
Whatever; name-calling = invoking Hitler, I'm outta this one.