Burger here. Since we're losing net neutrality here in the states, over the net few years tiny ISPs will be pushed out and bigger ones will gain monopolies. At first they'll just throttle access to servers of their competitors or their partners competitors. After that, they'll throttle and then charge extra to access it. Eventually, they'll just ban it.
First lemmie say, bye 4chan, it was interesting knowing you all.
Second, you all must realizse that Microsoft will be a parter to ALL the ISPs, right?
...So how the fuck will I download any GNU/Linux ISOs? For the next two weeks I'm planning to download and hoard ISOs from all the big or useful distros, Ubuntu, Xbuntu, Arch, Debian, Suse, Qubes, Tails, Heads, Kali, Slitaz, DSL, Puppy, Devuan, Knoppix, Elementary, Byzantium, Tinycore, etc etc. I figure after MS has has their partner ISPs cut access to the websites of these distros people could ask me to mail ISOs to them on CDs.
But those will all be old eventually! How the fuck will we get updates?! What the fuck will we do? Fucking ask Eurofags to mail us updates? We're going up end up like Cubas internet. Don't say torrents because torrents will be banned outright because piracy is a direct competitor to the TV streaming services that ISPs offer.
Ohhh god, how could we ever survive with a free market system, we need muh government to fix everything
>>61430440
I can't believe people are actually retarded enough to be against nn
>>61430626
this desu senpai
>>61430626
this desu famalam
>>61430626
>>61430906
>>61430985
>5 posts
>3 posters
Samefag
>>61430626
Remember this is the same website where guys imply that getting laid is difficult. We're already scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of user tier.
>>61430428
i would like to believe this is terrible bait.
but people who know computers typically know about as much on law and economics as normies know about computers.
internet service monopolies that already exist/have existed for 20 years and have nothing to do with/predate NN. in much of north america you MIGHT have 2 land-line full-speed ISPs to pick from and that has nothing to do with NN.
You want to protect the internet? Get rid of THAT bullshit, and when you have more ISPs to pick from, you can ditch ones that do stupid shit and don't need the government's help.
nn does nothing to help with that. The only thing that will stop bad behavior is the consequential loss of your consumer base because of multiple providers to chose from.
think about it. What would Comcast rather have a discussion about right now? If you can get at Youtube full speed on their network? Or if you can have the choice to LEAVE Comcast for another company?
>>61432569
somebody on /pol/ found out that george soros has a large stake in netflix
in case anyone is wondering 38 percent of all internet bandwidth is used by netflix at peak hours
the internet customers collectively pay for the bandwidth cost to download from netflix. what does netflix pay for the bandwidth cost to upload?
You'll go to the distro's page, and get the iso like always. yfw literally nothing happens. We've "lost" net neutrality 3 or 4 times now, unless you just found the internet this month then you know it's just a bunch of feel-good hysteria for no reason. Relax and join me in watching everyone freak out over nothing from a safe distance.
>>61430440
>free market system
utopian bullshit that can't exist?
>>61430440
>Free market system
We don't have a free market for ISPs. When new companies try to enter a market, they get blocked by local governments from being able to dig and put in new cables.
Until we can remove the barriers to entry and increase competition, we should operate under the assumption that ISPs are monopolies, and regulate them as such. For what it's worth, net neutrality isn't a regulation that significantly harms ISPs, so it doesn't really create new barriers to entry.
>>61434036
commie pls go
>>61434315
NN is actually specifically cited by small ISPs as a barrier to entry.
>>61433065
>implying users don't pay for bandwidth download and upload
>muh free market
https://consumerist.com/2017/06/21/small-cable-company-accuses-comcast-of-destroying-its-cable-lines-after-it-said-no-to-merger/
>>61430428
Lots of options will still exist. sftp, nntp, tor, ipfs, syncthing, tox file transfer, physical media.