<story><title>FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/15/fcc-approves-plan-to-allow-for-paid-priority-on-internet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hpaavola</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t get this whole net neautrality discussion that is going on in US (and maybe somewhere else, just haven&amp;#x27;t paid attention).&lt;p&gt;Consumers pay based on speed of their connection. If ISP feels like the consumers are not paying enough, raise the prices.&lt;p&gt;Service providers (not ISPs, but the ones who run servers that consumers connect to) pay based on speed of their connection. If the ISP feels like service providers are not paying enough, raise the prices.&lt;p&gt;Why in the earth there is a need for slow&amp;#x2F;fast lanes and data caps?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m four years old. So please keep that in mind when explaing this to me. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>&amp;gt; Why in the earth there is a need for slow&amp;#x2F;fast lanes&lt;p&gt;Because once the middleman has established himself as a monopoly and everybody &lt;i&gt;has&lt;/i&gt; to go through him with no alternative, he can make bank by having everybody pay more.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; and data caps?&lt;p&gt;Lets the ISP oversubscribe even more and extract even more money out of the system without providing any additional value whatsoever.</text></comment>
<story><title>FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/15/fcc-approves-plan-to-allow-for-paid-priority-on-internet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hpaavola</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t get this whole net neautrality discussion that is going on in US (and maybe somewhere else, just haven&amp;#x27;t paid attention).&lt;p&gt;Consumers pay based on speed of their connection. If ISP feels like the consumers are not paying enough, raise the prices.&lt;p&gt;Service providers (not ISPs, but the ones who run servers that consumers connect to) pay based on speed of their connection. If the ISP feels like service providers are not paying enough, raise the prices.&lt;p&gt;Why in the earth there is a need for slow&amp;#x2F;fast lanes and data caps?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m four years old. So please keep that in mind when explaing this to me. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adamio</author><text>Comcast: Video streaming services must pay 40x the base cost, or suffer from a data cap.&lt;p&gt;Amazon: OK, we&amp;#x27;ll sign a 4 year contract for 30x the base cost.&lt;p&gt;Comcast: Great&lt;p&gt;Year 5 comes around, Amazon wants a discount. Comcast refuses. Comcast then blocks all Amazon IP Address traffic until they reach a deal.&lt;p&gt;Comcast: Customers, you cannot access Amazon video on our service, but here&amp;#x27;s a $5 coupon to our own video on demand service</text></comment>