Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic

Very bad... and they would make alot of money too.

I think people who pay for internet and just check email are paying to much... and those paying and using it often are paying just right.

Think about the future. The technology is making the internet faster and faster, also larger and larger. Do you think they will change their prices when big bandwidth hogs today aren't hogging the larger amount of available bandwidth in the future? NO.

We will continue to pay rates for a service which is becoming technologically more advanced all the time.

Man that article gave me the shivers. Makes me want to invest in those companies too :)
 
It's just a matter of time before it grows to different areas. I have Time Warner and I might have to cut back if this is put into effect.
 
this would piss me off royally, it's like a way around net neutrality or internet 2.0 or whatever.
 
horrible. The internet would be crippled. Everyone would block ads etc... to save data costs and no one would watch trailers or videos anymore as it would drastically increase usage costs.

Not good at all.
 
The Internet “is how we deliver our shows,” said Jim Louderback, chief executive of Revision3, a three-year-old media company that runs what it calls a television network on the Web. “If all of a sudden our viewers are worried about some sort of a broadband cap, they may think twice about downloading or watching our shows.”


Even if the caps are far above the average users’ consumption, their mere existence could cause users to reduce their time online. Just ask people who carefully monitor their monthly allotments of cellphone minutes and text messages.
“As soon as you put serious uncertainty as to cost on the table, people’s feeling of freedom to predict cost dries up and so does innovation and trying new applications,” Vint Cerf, the chief Internet evangelist for Google who is often called the “father of the Internet,” said in an e-mail message.
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this could seriously hurt independent film makers looking to use the internet to distribute. :furious3:
 
Disgusting. Simply disgusting. I would be screwed! Do you know how much time I spend on this site alone? :grin: The only good thing I could see coming from this for me would be it would make me get off my lazy arse and actually do something. Haha! But seriously, that's terrible. I can just see industries imploding. Imagine the destruction...image the...movie possibilities!

Woah! Sometime's I let capitalist Nick take over a little too much. I hope this never happens, luckily I live ina small town and get my DSL from an independent local company.
 
ConspiracyPenguin said:
Woah! Sometime's I let capitalist Nick take over a little too much. I hope this never happens, luckily I live ina small town and get my DSL from an independent local company.
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Unfortunately if your small little ISP's provider (Verizon / ATT basically)wants too, they can raise there prices, or charge per gb, thus making them do the same, or cap your bandwidth.
 
Wow, I just read about this. What a huge step backward this will be! Goodbye digital downloads, Hello (again) physical media. And I was looking forward to HD movie downloads in the near future, too.

What a bummer.
 
Wow!!! That .info website is total spam. Did you see ALL those ads hidden in the story? Seriously, where did you find that website?

Here's another version of the news story, from another source. onetime1 can you please edit your original post to use this new link instead?
http://biz.yahoo.com/nytimes/080614/1194785259060.html?.v=3


As far as the news story, I wouldn't worry just yet. I remember, years ago, when there was talk about free e-mail providers (Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.) and how they were going to start charging. Ha! Never happened.

If an ISP started charging per byte (like AOL charged per hour) then they would have steep competition from an ISP that didn't charge per byte.

Don't stress about it yet. Just surf, be merry, and download while you can! :)
 
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It actually might be a good thing. Just think how much more you could get done on your next project if you couldn't afford to waste half a day talking about it on the internet..... And when you did talk about it on the internet there'd be a lot less "expert" feedback on how they would do it.
 
so ... should i get my money back if i don't use up my bandwith each month? Do I get rollover bandwith? Regardless of what solution they come up with ... cable companies are at fault for not building up their infrastructures (fibre optic lines, etc) while they could and instead held out and screwed the consumer for every single dime while not offering any better service for around the last 7 years, and now are pinning their problems on the consumer because the user has evolved and they have done nothing.

seriously ... F Time Warner ... I don't get a break on my bill if their sh*t cable internet goes down for days. $46.95 is about twice what i should be paying for 7 Mbps internet.

Personally, I don't think this will ever come to fruition, but the thought of it, this system of control, pisses me off to no end.
 
I would be willing to bet, that ALL of the providers would have to change at once, or this won't happen.

Think about it... whoever is the last company to NOT have started charging per use is gonna have the entire nation switching to their service. Instant success. Yes?

It's probably not going to happen because the last guy who holds out charging for usage will end up with all the business. They would have to all get together and agree to all change, with the provision of 'no takesies backsies'. lol
 
Ryan Patrick O'Hara said:
I would be willing to bet, that ALL of the providers would have to change at once, or this won't happen. ... They would have to all get together and agree to all change, with the provision of 'no takesies backsies'. lol
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Which is known as price fixing and could result in an enormous class action suit...
 
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