The providers' content is perfectly controlled, just the way they want it... 3, 4 or 5 streams per account. And it's working really well. Stop whining, and start innovating.
Ever travel on I-95 in Maryland? Toll-encumbered alternative roadways, placed alongside free interstates, are offered to provide a superior, faster driving experience... except that often isn't the case. They use dynamic, on-the-fly demand pricing, so you can never really calculate the value proposition as you approach an entrance. And they're limited-access... might just miss your exit. Watchdog groups estimate they'll never, ever generate enough revenue to cover the immense cost of construction. And it all sounds just like your analogy! Thanks to you, I'll be thinking ISP instead of I95 when I'm streaming past those "fast lanes".
So... are they actually doing content interrogation on these data streams to see what's inside... standard def, HD-junior (720p) or 4K? Or are they looking at transfer rates and QOS data, and making a guess? It would be interesting to know whether they've "got eyes on" everyone's content, just like our Most Benevolent Overlords in the security sector.
"... the best thing for America’s fragile economy..."
Whoa... don't use that phrase near Chairman Pai's boss! He MAGA'd the economy, from what I hear.
This is the problem with astroturfing; you can't manage the messaging with any nuance, and your amateur apologists accidentally say things that don't match the supplied narrative. Or, worse yet, they might say something that's true.
Every time a brilliant world figure takes a stand on making research available under Open Access, a tree in the Elsevier parking lot bursts into flame.
She's making things better for citizens by pretty much locking-in a 2.5-out-of-5 star rating. State-mandated mediocrity, to protect the poor, uninformed locals.
But, as we know, it's not about Disney prevailing, and winning a cash judgment from a tiny company... it's about the threat, about bleeding them dry with legal fees. Which shouldn't take long.
The ISP's can prove there are tens of thousands more broadband-connected communities... they just have to wait for the results to trickle in via DSL and postcards.
I did some research last night with my associate General Tso, and I'm thinking that using four 256GB microSD cards per 1TB, the entire database could be smuggled out in a wonton.
What's clear is that by the time these lumbering behemoths decide to become a "playuh", they're so far down the trend slope that failure is all but assured. Verizon must have heard that Yahoo was the the bees' knees... "Our own search engine! Imagine that!" All they got instead was the ability to shut down their own mail servers in favor of a poisoned, spam-ridden domain. AT&T would have done better investing in fidget spinners... at least you can still find them at a convenience store.
If they're going to spin that yarn, they should at least have it take place in a glassed-in, dramatically lit control room, with voiceprints and retina scans all around. And genital biometric devices. And then Jackie Chan breaks through the glass and...
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"The lack of control over the content..."
The providers' content is perfectly controlled, just the way they want it... 3, 4 or 5 streams per account. And it's working really well. Stop whining, and start innovating.
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"... the best thing for America’s fragile economy..."
Whoa... don't use that phrase near Chairman Pai's boss! He MAGA'd the economy, from what I hear.
This is the problem with astroturfing; you can't manage the messaging with any nuance, and your amateur apologists accidentally say things that don't match the supplied narrative. Or, worse yet, they might say something that's true.
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All told, I think we've just created 1.3 million new jobs for reviewers and analysts.
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Revenge is mine, sayeth the tribe
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That's an un-American approach... it's neither divisive nor irrational. I like it.
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