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XD Read the original post and you'll see what we're poking fun at again.

What?

I'm sorry, but after that big talk in Ranting Board about how people should be writing in the forums, I suddenly became more aware of all the... yeah. :D

I became skeptical for all these "Really important news that will affect us all" stories, so I also won't believe this will have an impact on my life as serious as the way people put it.

First it happened with the Orphan Works Bill news that became quickly big died out again, rose again, died out, and rose back up again. Then this panic about how LHC is going to destroy the world, then...

While it may not be the exact same thing, things like this tend to get a bit of a hype about them. They get enough people to talk about it, and when it comes to pass, nothing happens. Think Y2K bug; a lot of doomsday hype, and then, nothing. Life goes on as normal.

With this limiting the internet idea, the only thing that would affect the internet as we know it is if all countries world wide added legislation at a governmental level requiring ISP's to "vend" internet in this manner at the same time.

At least in the states, if several companies were to jump on the Limit the net bandwagon then people would just end the contracts and go to another ISP in most cases. Even if a significant number of ISP's do this, there will always be some free rouge that starts up a service with "unlimited net" because they could make money doing it.

Honestly, I think this is the future - My ISP certainly does this(Hughes.net satellite), and its a smart thing to do. No filtering, just pay for a cirtain amount(either by-the-GB or a certain amount, after which you get cut off or reduced in speed).

Mobile internet they can get away with - Not many people use it(in the grand scheme of things), and not all websites are mobile-friendly. But, if an ISP starts limiting, people start leaving. Remember Comcast(I think it was) - They started limiting only P2P traffic. People rebelled, and they are in a pile of trouble now.

Edit:
Of course, the third option is sort of like we have now - You are only limited by the size of the "pipe" you buy. And, they shouldn't try to limit that and say its still "unlimited" either. Which has been happening a fair amount.

-RobbieThe1st

-RobbieThe1st

yea I remember that...my ISP is Cox which is Comcast's sister company or something...thats what i heard atleast...and i remember hearing about that. XD I think that the amount per month thing sucks also...since i personally download....idk 100GB a month if not more...then tehre is my brothers who together get 15-20 GB a month...my sister...5GB maybe on youtube page loading...my dad about 40-50 on work stuff...mom...1-2 GB max XD and moble web teathered to a PC makes full web on the computer...sure i cant excedde 5GB or so a month but eh with the phone i use *checks Sprint site* o_O 1GB so far this month....thats just lyric look ups....GAH. i use the web a ton XD. but yea....the limits will suck when they hit Cox.

Anyone remember the internets of 2000?

DO YA? HUH? DO YA?

Y2K was nothing.

THIS, is nothing.

nuff said.

I simply don't see it happening. I mean, how would they be capable of doing it? Wouldn't it require metric [censored] tons of cash to even accomplish this? And anyone who does it, it's not all of them or nearly all of them, are gonna lose all of their business. Unless the cost per site is like, .0000000000000001 cent per site, it would be cheaper for many people to get another, faster internet source.

Screw net neutrality.

China is going to run out of IP addresses by 2011(via Slashdot).

I hope this would be enough motivation to have the country switch to IPv6..., and then, rest of the world....