e-mail to snail mail,charge for internet

[remo williams]

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=453341&category=OPINION&BCCode=&newsdate=2/22/2006
as if paying for cable,dsl,dial up wasn't enough already.now someone wants to charge for information delivery..i hope this get's killed ..your thoughts..

[annihilation]

Well there was a paper out a while back that said that if the internet was invented today and implemented it would have never taken off or succeded. That the current system of patents and company control over patents, codes and what not would have severly limited.

The internet only occurred really because the majority of the coporations and people in the world didn't look to deeply into it. They didn't see the true potential of what the internet was till it was too late. And now they are trying every way possible to control it, reverse it, or tap into it for their own benefit.

The next technological innovation wont be so blindly overlooked.


About the article itself...much of that debate has come to content being provided to phones. (Thats when I first heard of this issue of different speeds of delivering content) The cellphone companies are getting ever so greedy and feel that if google is providing you with content that they should get a piece of the pie to allow you to access the google via the phone. So not only do they want you to pay every month a fee to access the internet via the phone, but also charge google for sending content to you.

Something similiar to this happened with Yahoo. They provide for free music videos which they had a 15 second commercial before the video played. Some of the music company execs got wise / greedy and told yahoo that if they don't get a piece of that revenue then they would not allow yahoo to play any of the videos at all. So not only did they want yahoo to advertise their artist by showing the video, they also wanted to be paid for it.

I do believe in making a fair buck their is a line on how far you can go in charging things.

[Abolith]

Google and yahoo don't get "a free ride", they pay for pipeline access just like every other website in the world. On top of that you and I pay for the same bandwidth on the other end in month access fees...so whats really going on the that the phone companies want to get paid THREE times for delivering the same content, they are just pissed off that some comapnies are making a killing and they want an unearned piece of the pie.

[CG51]

Google and yahoo don't get "a free ride", they pay for pipeline access just like every other website in the world. On top of that you and I pay for the same bandwidth on the other end in month access fees...so whats really going on the that the phone companies want to get paid THREE times for delivering the same content, they are just pissed off that some comapnies are making a killing and they want an unearned piece of the pie. Good post...

[remo williams]

exactly..and that's disturbing,trying to muscle something for nothing and screw everyone in the process..just to fatten their wallets..if they had some "breakthrough" method to drastically increase bandwidth and speed..well it'd be an argument worth having..but this is just overt greed