It's so frustrating to me that this is all based around the stupid legal assumption that we have to stream everything. God forbid your user should download something to watch later, to prevent having to redownload every time you watch it. And then during peak Netflix hours, I just can't use the internet reliably. If anyone knows any source for Libre video works, that I can download and watch with complete freedom, pl…
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#142It's so frustrating to me that this is all based around the stupid legal assumption that we have to stream everything. God forbid your user should download something to watch later, to prevent having to redownload every time you watch it. And then during peak Netflix hours, I just can't use the internet reliably. If anyone knows any source for Libre video works, that I can download and watch with complete freedom, pl…
Internet archive has a shit ton of movies and videos that are public domain. You can also always Torrent.....
Sure, you can torrent, for now. Until it costs extra to buy the torrenting package from your ISP, and it would be cheaper to just pay for the content.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a 100mbps connection.. I live in NJ. It costs me $80 a month (Which is robbery IMO). But still, I have it.
Here in Australia with the most mainstream ISP it costs $90/month for 200GB and a theoretical max speed of 24 Mbits/s via ADSL2 (I only get 10). By global standards you are not being robbed.
I down voted you, allow me to explain why. I personally find this style of "at least its not as bad as somewhere else" argument really infuriating. Because it attempts to shift the argument from "How can we do better? to "Be thankful its not worse!"
Its defeatist at best, and actively promotes/degrades the status quo at worst.
You aren't making an insightful or interesting post by doing this, you are simply being dismissive and shutting down discussion.
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#144I want to drop my Comcast home internet (Palo Alto CA) and switch to a net-neutrality friendly ISP. What other service should I consider?
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What would it take to get someone who cares about the greater good (not an industry crony) appointed to these key roles?
Stop electing the politicians who appoint cronies?
One of the first things Obama did on entering office was write an executive order contractually banning lobbyists for working for the administration for 2 year after their most recent lobbying job, or going ot work from the administration into a lobbying job in the same field for 2 years after leaving office, as well as posting a list of such restrictions publicly. It's somewhat effective: http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/01/19/obamas-revolvi...
However, at the moment it has to be contractual because constitutionally it's quite hard to restrain people from taking whatever job they want, and also because many voters want elected representatives to 'bring home the bacon' by getting government subsidies for business that will lead to more job creation. I don't think this should be the role of representatives or senators, but a lot of people do. Even people who argue for smaller government and campaign against 'pork' seem quite happy when government largesse lands in their own community.
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#146I want to drop my Comcast home internet (Palo Alto CA) and switch to a net-neutrality friendly ISP. What other service should I consider?
Sonic, had them in PA for a few years, best ISP I've had. They'll crank a single DSL line up to whatever it will carry ($40/mo for around 15-20mbits) and bond two of them together for $80-ish IIRC.
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Money. There are 100 senators. 34 or so come up for election every two years. Each election is won, 75 - 90% of the time, by the candidate who spends the most. The most expensive campaigns spend about $20M; the tenth most expensive campaign spends about $5M. The margin between D and R in the Senate is 8. Form a SuperPAC and fund it with about $75M. Ensure the election of a crop of senators who know what the key issue…
Tax pay funded campaigns with a ban on all other spending to promote candidates.
How do you ban a random person from spending to promote candidates?
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
What would it take to get someone who cares about the greater good (not an industry crony) appointed to these key roles?
Stop electing the politicians who appoint cronies?
Appointing cronies seems to make it easier to get reelected or prepare a nice landing for after you political career is over.
What incentives can be applied to promote appointing the competent and unbiassed?
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#149Don't for get to call your ISP and demand your cut of the money they're now earning for pimping you out to the content providers
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#150This law is the worst thing that could possibly happen to Internet. We need to as zealously fight against this as we did against SOPA. All the tech millionaires and billionaires out there: THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO SAVE INTERNET BY WIELDING YOUR CONNECTIONS. I'm not even sure how a cable lobbyist dick like Tom Wheeler got in FCC in first place and I continue to wonder how people like him would never hesitate to kill som…
It's not a law. It's an "administrative regulation" and there's nothing anybody other than the FCC commissioners can do to stop it.