Of course it can work SOPA style but this time there are significant differences. First and most important we are not dealing with the usual MAFIAA stooges. This time we are dealing with much bigger fishes. There's also the fact that there was more active, enthusiastic efforts from the likes of Google, Netflix etc. Then there is the fact that the current proposals are not as aggressive as those in SOPA, it's more nuanced.
I'm not quite sure people will engage as they did back then and I suspect there's a whole lot more of money stuck in politicians ears and eyes so it may be harder to get the message that it's going to stink for them. I hope I'm proven wrong!
The concept is very simple: treat all content equally. If you are gonna impose arbitrary caps you can't exempt your own content from it. If you are going to throttle because of congestion the throttle everybody and don't exempt your own stuff.
But, but free riding pipes! Everybody paid for their pipes, ISPs costumers paid for theirs and online services and sites paid for theirs as well so no double dipping giving ISPs own services an unfair advantage.
So yes, the concept is incredibly simple. Don't cheat because you own the infra-structure.
EA would have to pay me because of Origin and assign 1 employee to fan me when it's hot and another to carry me wherever I want for all the rest before I start considering if I'm pirating their games.
Re: Hey, if Google and Facebook can go for the cheap, insincere PR shot...
Except that at the very least Google and Facebook did support good stuff in the very recent past. While I look at Google and Facebook participating with a grain of salt I'd need an entire salt-desert to even begin considering AT&T.
That a lot of people are still somewhat confused with the idea or even don't really know is a given (though all the publicity is slowly changing) and the confusion is intentionally fed by the telcos themselves so there's that. Even then you still see overwhelming bipartisan support to NN to the point that over 90% of the comments in the FCC site are supportive of NN (excluding the bot). So what's your point?
That. When I see some institute, association or whatever I go look for their sponsors and who is running the show, their past actions and other factors. Of course sometimes you'll get it wrong like that time when Karl and pretty much everybody else thought Wheeler would be more of the same and he surprised us.
So you want to go after those who abuse encryption? How fast will this devolve into anybody that uses more than the Govt would consider enough for the average Jane/Joe?
Re: Huge numbers of illegal immigrants harm the economy
Really? I know some people that went to the US illegally (and managed to make it legal later) were earning twice or even 3 times what they got for the same type of labor here simply because Americans don't want to take those less-than-honorable jobs (ie: gardening, babysitting and others). In fact there have been studies that suggest the opposite.
I'd say that along with availability, fair pricing also played a significant role there. Take the streaming services and price them a few times above current prices and we will see the opposite effect. People think it's fair to pay $15, $20 for a variety of content so they pay. The MAFIAA lost tons of money not to piracy but to their own head-in-the-sand approach. They could be the owners of the Netflixes of today but they chose not to take the evolution train.
Re: "Less than one in ten of the people still downloading content illicitly are finding it harder to do so." -- You don't understand margins and chilling effects, then.
Because there was no anti-piracy enforcement prior to 2013, right?
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I'm not quite sure people will engage as they did back then and I suspect there's a whole lot more of money stuck in politicians ears and eyes so it may be harder to get the message that it's going to stink for them. I hope I'm proven wrong!
Anyway good luck!
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The concept is very simple: treat all content equally. If you are gonna impose arbitrary caps you can't exempt your own content from it. If you are going to throttle because of congestion the throttle everybody and don't exempt your own stuff.
But, but free riding pipes! Everybody paid for their pipes, ISPs costumers paid for theirs and online services and sites paid for theirs as well so no double dipping giving ISPs own services an unfair advantage.
So yes, the concept is incredibly simple. Don't cheat because you own the infra-structure.
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A lot of support for killing net neutrality indeed! - Ajit Pai with $ symbols in the eyes
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Words can be very deceiving.
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Am I the only one that giggles when they use the word aliens while picturing govt agents fighting against aliens with alien teeth-filled tongues?
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Re: "Less than one in ten of the people still downloading content illicitly are finding it harder to do so." -- You don't understand margins and chilling effects, then.
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