Rock the Net: musicians for Net Neutrality
Matt sez, "Net neutrality is the principle that preserves an open Internet. We need to get the word out in order to help raise awareness about this crucial concept. Thirsty Ear Recordings and Future of Music Coalition have come together to release Rock the Net: Musicians for Net Neutrality, a compilation CD featuring artists who support Net Neutrality (Aimee Mann, Bright Eyes, Guster, The Wrens, They Might Be Giants, Wilco and more). Please, help us Rock the Net by talking about this exciting new release and informing your readers about the effort to preserve our basic freedom and keep the Internet thriving!" Link (Thanks, Matt!)
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That is a great band lineup. But man, I wish WILCO put a different track on there other than Impossible Germany. It very well may be the best song they have ever recorded, and one of my favorite guitar sections ever, but pretty much every die-hard WILCO fan already has that song live.
It was part of a free download EP if you bought the album.
I like They Might Be Giants as much as the next nerd, but s/Live Earth/Rock the Net.
Enough with the hype; more direct action.
And of course, continuing to overprovision ad infinitium is still the least expensive and easiest solution to ever increasing demand for bandwidth. ISPs like to fear-monger with the "exabyte flood" to assure the perception of scarcity (where it doesn't exist).
Net Neutrality: where bittorrent and streaming video data has the same priority as my VOIP and email data.
Just add more bandwidth! It's really that simple.
In a truly neutral net you have equality of resources. More bandwidth for sure, but also security. How much filtering is taking place now just to remove spam? What a waste of resources.
Coldspell #3, is there some reason your packets should take priority over everyone else's?
And your examples are very odd. Streaming video and VOIP are both cases where even a little net lag degrades user experience tremendously. Email, on the other hand, is not. If your email takes an extra second or two to get where it's going, you'll never notice.
@#6:
Most people who are opposed to Net Neutrality don't really know very much about the internet, and are only a few notches above Ted Stevens.
Yah, "preserve our basic freedom", most definitely. I thought the right to conduct ones own business as one wants, and to treat ones own property as one wants ARE basic freedom.
Are the ISPs the only businesses that are going to lose their basic freedom to socialist freeloaders? Or will other businesses freedoms follow?
So, which "socialist freeloaders" are you referring to again?
#9: Nope, subsidies are not OK. But two wrongs do not make a right. The right way to go is not to implement more slavery, but to abolish the slavery that's already there.
I believe that the Internet should remain free. Free from any government, corporation, single individual or group controlling what WE can and cannot see or do on the Internet. We should have an Internet that, unfortunately, allows people to spam, but also allows people, in repressive countries like China, to see and hear anything on the Internet (whose to say that that email you get is spam or not. If it says "freedom" or "Democracy" China might mark that as "spam"). Freedom brings a breathtaking amount of innovation from people around the world. If the Internet stays free from any form of censorship, we will find that the human race will blossom into something so wonderful that our current imagination cannot grasp the possibilities. When the Internet is controlled by each single individual to freely choose what that individual would like, we will find that problems will be fixed in ways we now say are impossible. LET THE INDIVIDUAL CHOOSE!!!
Keep large organizations (this includes Governments) from dictating what we can do.
LET THE INDIVIDUAL CHOOSE!!!
Joshua Delcore