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The toothpaste is out of the tube already, people know what freedom online tastes like. Bad news for old money - the Internet has an appetite for rentier blood
by pnut 13y ago
The toothpaste is out of the tube already, people know what freedom online tastes like.
Bad news for old money - the Internet has an appetite for rentier blood. This will not be tolerated long term.
- zobzu 13y agothats generally how that stuff starts to be tolerated. "it wont fly so i don't care". then since there is a HUGE financial interest, they try again, and again and again, and nobody's to block them, it eventually works.
- wycx 13y agoThe internet has an appetite for replace existing rent seeking with more scalable rent seeking.
- wmf 13y agoI just got an idea for a startup: it's like Uber for bandwidth.
- morgante 13y agoLikely nobody would even realize. It's not like the telcos would block sites. Instead, suddenly Netflix loads a lot slower than Comcast. Blame Netflix and move on.
- waterlesscloud 13y agoThat lasts right up until Netflix puts a big banner on their page for Comcast customers that explains the situation.
- morgante 13y agoNetflix might have the clout to do so, but a small startup which nobody has heard of never would. Ultimately, the consumer mindset is never to blame their provider. They blame the website. If you come to my site and it's throttled, there's a high chance you'll click away and never come back.