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This is the anti-SPDY lobbying alliance, http://www.atis.org/openweballiance/index.asp http://www.atis.org/openweballiance/index.asp They seem to be deathly af

• mschuster91 12y ago
  Holding back innovation just because it would wipe out their business. This, my dear friends, is why ISPs need to become regulated, government-owned utilites. Or has anyone seen regulators preventing experiments on self-driving cars and trains in order to keep train conductor's jobs?
  • tedunangst 12y ago
    > Or has anyone seen regulators preventing experiments on self-driving cars and trains in order to keep train conductor's jobs? Yes? Isn't that the crux of the Uber and AirBnB and Aereo battles?
    • mschuster91 12y ago
      Yet, these laws you mention actually make sense (at least those Uber and Airbnb "fight" against). Taxi regulations exist to prevent Uber's "surge pricing" model, thereby guaranteeing the customer the same price for the same distance, no matter how late at night it is or how drunk the customer is (at least in Germany; the taxi market as a whole seems to be broken in the US so that's another story). Hotel regulations exist to protect other tenants in a building from the kind of bullshit which has happened multiple times: ever-changing, drunk tenants demolishing stuff, being loud, throwing sex parties, etc. The only law area being "disrupted" where the existing regulations don't protect any legitimate interests aside from MAFIAA's Big Money is the TV distribution, and I'm sad that Aereo got problems there. But well, that's the area of Big Money, no chance to compete there :(