The end of the internet as we know it?

[tobz173]

Whitechapel - 2012: The Year The Internet ends (http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2451&Focus=55275)


Australia is fairly close to making the call on implementing fibreoptics australia wide, which can lead to mega amounts of bandwidth available, ie, watchin high def tv through the internet etc, so what these guys are saying is true to a certain extent. I don't think i agree with their prediction of only having a choice between certain sites, and if you want to go to different sites, you pay more. It just seems like a bunch of hippies in a back yard spinning their sh*t, but who knows?

[offspring22]

Various people I'm affiliated with are making sure this doesn't happen. Either way, I don't think it will go through.

[odeezie]

Various people I'm affiliated with are making sure this doesn't happen. Either way, I don't think it will go through.

h4X!!!!! :eek6::scared:

[Patrick]

Can't happen. ISPs don't own the internet. In fact, nobody owns it. It isn't a big Linksys router like in South Park. It's just a giant network of computers. If the major ISPs pull this crap, people will be outraged. Some really savvy guy could start up a new ISP without these limitations and put all of the current ISPs out of business. Problem solved.

The nice thing about greed is that it, in the end, it bites companies in the ass. Eventually, you charge so much money for such ****ty service that people just pull their money and take their business elsewhere. Then, you have to pick your game up and be more reasonable if you want them back. Pretty simple.

[Demon]

Fiber is replacing copper because it allows a better range of products to offer customers. Instead of just phone or dial up carriers can offer tv, high speed internet, and more advanced communication packages like VOIP. Right now every long distance line in the sates in on fiber but last mile facilities are still copper. That limits that type of equipment and what can be done from the pop to your house. The partnerships that are and have been form are between carriers like ATT and Verizon and content providers like Time Warner. ATT and Verizon are not in the entertainment business but by teaming up with a company that is they can offer entertainment over thier network. NEWSFLASH major communication companies already own most of the internet backbone that your ISP pays to use so really nothing is changing just the medium in which it is brought to the consumer. Those guys are jobless hippy pot heads.

[Demon]

Can't happen. ISPs don't own the internet. In fact, nobody owns it. It isn't a big Linksys router like in South Park. It's just a giant network of computers. If the major ISPs pull this crap, people will be outraged. Some really savvy guy could start up a new ISP without these limitations and put all of the current ISPs out of business. Problem solved.

The nice thing about greed is that it, in the end, it bites companies in the ass. Eventually, you charge so much money for such ****ty service that people just pull their money and take their business elsewhere. Then, you have to pick your game up and be more reasonable if you want them back. Pretty simple.

You still need a network Patrick. A savy guy is still going to have to lease circuits from an ATT or Verizon to make it all work. Hell most companies don't even have their own space for their equip, companies like myspace and google lease space from major communication companies because your talking about raised floors, back up batteries and generators the size of your house, cable ladders, plus the circuits hooking it up to the network.

[Patrick]

Hmmm I see.

[Triple Five]

The worst thing would be if they didn't let me look at pron anymore.

[copsey]

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[sharkmx62]

You still need a network Patrick. A savy guy is still going to have to lease circuits from an ATT or Verizon to make it all work. Hell most companies don't even have their own space for their equip, companies like myspace and google lease space from major communication companies because your talking about raised floors, back up batteries and generators the size of your house, cable ladders, plus the circuits hooking it up to the network.
The ATT building has a pretty decent sized raised floor. I figured if I ever killed someone I could hide them there for awhile, dont know what to do about the stench though...

[odeezie]

Demon is right on this. With as much money as the State Government has, we use AT&T, Verizon, and sometimes Charter for every circuit we have.

[Demon]

I hide my tools under a section of raised floor when I go on vacation, I had made a bed 10ft up on the cable rack using foam from shipping crates atop rows of coax it was right under the AC vent too. After I left that site they found it and blamed the Fillipino dude that made long distance calls to the motherland at night.

[YamahaRacin27]

Everybody knows that Bill Gates owns the internet and it will vanish into thin air when he dies. It's all part of his scheme so he can be the only person to ever make money on t3h internetz. But he has a lot of money to have good doctors keep him alive so I'm not seeing this happening in the near future. I'd say it will be at least 20+ more years before he croaks.