Internet access is a natural right, as much as power, water, food, freedom from slavery and freedom of thought.

Addictions a bitch.

I'm sure it tastes like freedom.

>> ^gwiz665:

Internet access is a natural right, as much as power, water, food, freedom from slavery and freedom of thought.


I very much disagree.

How so?
>> ^BoneRemake:

>> ^gwiz665:
Internet access is a natural right, as much as power, water, food, freedom from slavery and freedom of thought.

I very much disagree.

Oh, I thought I wrote agree.

How so?>> ^BoneRemake:

Oh, I thought I wrote agree.

http://www.barrettgarese.com/post/3050001320/in-canada-isps-are-limiting-monthly-data-to-25gb

More suckage courtesy of the CRTC. Seriously, why does the CRTC still exist? All they do is promote monopolies, limit consumer choice and generally make things crappy for Canadians.

What makes the CRTC any different from the FCC? Net Neutrality.

What's the FCC rules on Net Neutrality? In Canada throttling is legal, for now, as long as the provider documents that they throttle.

http://internet.bell.ca/index.cfm?method=content.view&content_id=12119%3E

I think I'm actually going to attend this rally on Saturday: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=174967459212532

As far as I know, this only affects certain ISP's, specifically DSL ones. Bell is one of the ones being hit with it, Other companies like Rogers who give internet through cable are going to remain the same.

Cable is supposedly going to be targeted next, but I'm not sure the entire specifics.

Personally I'm with rogers and have a 90gb/mo cap and that's reasonable. The only time I've ever maxed it out was when I built my own PC and re-downloaded all my steam games in the same month, but a 25Gb cap/mo is ridiculous.

Some of the supposed driving factors behind this are that "If you're downloading movies or games, then you're saving money from not buying gas because you're not going to the movie store, etc." Which in itself is also complete BS.

The only thing I slightly agree with is the fact that people are canceling their cable t.v. because why pay for something you can see free online?

Hopefully this entire thing is short lived.

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It's weird, Australia seems to be going the other way. For years we've had metered bandwidth- Up until 5 months ago, my quota was 20 gigs on my home cable broadband and it cost $89. Then suddenly all of the ISP plans were increased by a factor of 10. I now have a 200 GB limit for the same price.

The reason for the increase in bandwidth is (I believe) because the government is rolling out a public fiber to the premises (FTTP) broadband program which will be in direct competition with the main wholesale and retail ISP - the national telecom provider for Australia, Telstra.

It seems the crisis is averted:
http://www.theprovince.com/news/Harper+Conservatives+quash+CRTC+decision+killing+unlimited+Internet/4214166/story.html

For now.

I hope the crisis stays averted. I remain skeptical. If it happens here it could happen just about anywhere.

http://videosift.com/search?q=\crtc

It's been interesting to watch the growth of interest for the internet the government has shown in recent years.

http://videosift.com/video/Canadian-government-expresses-enthusiasm-for-Internet