Tech at Night: Net Neutrality, Copyright, iPhone, Verizon

On December 11, 2010, in General, by Neil Stevens
Tech at Night

Happy Weekend. As I write this it’s already the 11th, so you have two shopping weeks left before Christmas. Oops, is it still legal on the Internet not to say Holiday?

Some quick hits for the weekend as we continue to wait on the FCC to explain itself and its plans for radical new Internet regulation.

George Ou points out that if Netflix gets to demand free peering with Comcast, then Netflix ought to demand free shipping over the postal service. After all, if neutral means free, then that’s the next step, right? Just shows how absurd the radicals really are in all of this. Network investment costs money and that money must be recouped with profit, or else that investment isn’t going to happen.

And again, if that investment stops happening, we all lose out.

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