Metering the Internet

Metering the Internet

If you’re someone who uses the Internet to do more than just check e-mail and browse through blogs (i.e., you download movies or music through BitTorrent), then this new proposal by a number of telecom giants, including Comcast, AT&T and Time Warner Cable, will likely put an end to that (although Comcast has already begun to heavily “shape” BitTorrent traffic without admitting it to their customers). I think this casts doubt upon the viability of deregulated and privatized telecoms, but even more so I think it threatens potential development in terms of video streaming and online media distribution, which is why most Internet-related businesses that aren’t telecoms, like Google, are opposed to this.