Could the end of Net Neutrality end your access to Hung Angels?

[Ts RedVeX]

This is soooo real, by the way :

[chupapau]

C'mon guys. Does anyone really think anything will stop porn? I've been downloading shit since the eighties. Although it did take about 5 to 10 minutes to download one picture back then. But the point is, stopping porn is like stopping drugs. It ain't gonna happen.

Wow, you were on the internet before it existed?????

[chupapau]

Stavros,

I seriously appreciate your effort to bring people to talk about stuff that really matters, and to point people out those seemingly little thing that are actually made seemingly little to hide the big sledgehammer behind it. However seeing the reactions of certain people, I can only think of the following :

Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon, it will strut wildly across the board, crap on it, and walk off with an air as if it has won the argument.

I suggest handing them out poisoned pellets and telling them its viagra.

[giovanni_hotel]

I expect access to porn to cost more. Just like you can purchase premium movies from your cable provider, ISPs are going to require you to pay a fee to surf for certain material considered 'adult'.

Porn is the biggest money maker on the interwebz other than online retail and for years the ISPs were cut out of the deal.
Now they can charge you for high speed access to surf the NEt to find a ,gif of your favorite transchick getting her cock sucked.

Tiers of service is definitely coming, following the cable TV model.
It will suck hard until a Democratic POTUS is elected, he can appoint his own FCC chairs and reverse this shit.

The idiots who voted for Trump are the gift that keeps on giving.
Sort of like venereal disease.

[Torris]

Wow, you were on the internet before it existed?????

I remember when you had to download file fragments and use UUencode to put them files together for a pic

Praise Anu for Netscape and the whole right click save as phenomenon

Then came the Usenet groups hierarchy. Somewhere in a shoebox I have a couple dozen Zip disks full of porn photos

[Ben in LA]

I remember when you had to download file fragments and use UUencode to put them files together for a pic

Praise Anu for Netscape and the whole right click save as phenomenon

Then came the Usenet groups hierarchy. Somewhere in a shoebox I have a couple dozen Zip disks full of porn photos

Time to put that Flickr account to good use huh?

[Ben in LA]

C'mon guys. Does anyone really think anything will stop porn? I've been downloading shit since the eighties. Although it did take about 5 to 10 minutes to download one picture back then. But the point is, stopping porn is like stopping drugs. It ain't gonna happen.

Nothing will “stop porn”, but it WILL be more expensive to access it.

[MacJae]

While the scenario of selling bundled "packages" would be in line with what they do for TV, it's also likely that the ISPs would adopt a more indirect strategy for squeezing people for profit -- by going after the content providers, like they tried with Netflix.

Basically, websites and other services might be forced into paying an amount proportional to the traffic they generate. If they don't, they'd get cut off or slowed down. This would generate more revenue for the ISPs while deflecting consumer ire towards the content sites ("why is this site so slow? I'll go somewhere else" "why are these guys raising prices on me?"). This approach would effectively give ISPs a piece of the pie from paysites and ad sites alike. And it would most likely hurt smaller and personal sites the most.

Removing net neutrality has nothing to do with the "free market." That's a buzzword they use to conceal the fact that it's purely rent-seeking behavior they're engaging in. It's more like a form of feudalism than it is capitalism, especially in those parts of the U.S. where there is virtually no competition.

[luvzbig1s]

Yes it very well could Plus if you are a gamer you might as well forget it

[gaysian71]

Nothing will “stop porn”, but it WILL be more expensive to access it.

But its,already gotten more expensive. Just a few years ago you could get a Comcast 100mbps connection for $150.00 and a static up address for an additional 10 bucks. Now it's 200.00 for the same internet connection and 25 bucks for a static up address.