ISPs Race to Create Two-Tiered Internet

ISPs Race to Create Two-Tiered Internet 612

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday December 19, 2005 @01:00PM from the guess-which-tier-you'll-be-on dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The ISP race toward a two-tiered Internet is picking up speed. This article from Michael Geist points to a wide range of examples involving packet preferencing, content blocking, traffic shaping, and public musings about premium charges for faster content downloads. ISPs are now reducing access to peer-to-peer applications, blocking Skype, and, scariest of all, lobbying Congress to let them do it."

ISPs Race to Create Two-Tiered Internet

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Imminent death of the Net predicted (Score:2, Funny)

by winkydink ( 650484 ) * writes: <sv.dude@gmail.com> on Monday December 19, 2005 @01:04PM (#14291708) Homepage Journal

Film at 11.

Well... (Score:5, Funny)

by aug24 ( 38229 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @01:05PM (#14291721) Homepage

...something's blocking access to the story. (Millions of other slashdotters most likely.)

Justin.

It has already started: (Score:5, Funny)

by acoustix ( 123925 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @01:11PM (#14291776)

"Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.michaelgeist.ca."

See, they're blocking me already!!!!

-Nick

Two tier internet (Score:4, Funny)

by thewiz ( 24994 ) * writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @01:16PM (#14291831)

Sounds to me like they want our virtual lives to reflect our real lives: rich vs. poor.
And who said we have a classless system?

Re:./ed (Score:3, Funny)

by Namronorman ( 901664 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @01:18PM (#14291846)

You can't see the article because they don't want you to see the article!

Re:Yay!! (Score:5, Funny)

by JWW ( 79176 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @01:27PM (#14291931)

Could worse grammar and speling I had in that last sentance?

Sorry about that. Grammar Nazis need not reply, I know that was horrible.

Re:Well... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @01:32PM (#14291981)

To all the people who need to feed their self esteem by going into a forum and saying "WebsiteX.com had this story three days ago", you are a sad, sad lot. If WebsiteX.com is so very great, why are you here? And what is the view like from under your bridge anyway?

Re:Two word solution! (Score:5, Funny)

by hswerdfe ( 569925 ) writes: <`slashdot.org' ` ... .swerdfeger.com'> on Monday December 19, 2005 @02:07PM (#14292344) Homepage Journal

Hey Wow

wouldn't it be Great if an Infrastructure based industry like Telecom, Roads, Internet.
worked the same as a commodity based industry like, pc's, or cloths.

I know lets pretend the economics of one apply blindly to the other...

Careful now... (Score:2, Funny)

by killmenow ( 184444 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @02:09PM (#14292374)

Shitty, largely indistinguishable, highly derivative repackagings of the same generic crap from one or two sources.

...you're getting a little too close to describing Linux, there!

I keed! I keed!! Long Live Linux!!!

Re:Yay!! (Score:3, Funny)

by jred ( 111898 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @03:07PM (#14292979) Homepage

You. Bastard.

Next you'll be saying you were forced to ogle hot Japanese chicks.

Re:Two tier internet (Score:2, Funny)

by stud9920 ( 236753 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @06:32PM (#14294748)

And who said we have a classless system?

People who introduced CIDR back in the early 1990s.

Re:To whomever downmodded the parent (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @07:34PM (#14295175)

I usually mod the truth as -1, Redundant.

With love,
Darl McBride

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Well... (Score:5, Funny)

It has already started: (Score:5, Funny)

Two tier internet (Score:4, Funny)

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Re:Yay!! (Score:5, Funny)

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Careful now... (Score:2, Funny)

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