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| Topic | The Net Neutrality Fight Will Soon Return. |
| realnifty1 03/05/24 10:03:39 AM #12: | C_Pain posted... Reddit wouldn't shut up about this years ago but nothing seemed to change. When am I going to be charged to visit each individual site? That's not exactly how it will work. ISP's go to Netflix and say, hey you are using too much of our bandwidth, pay us more or we throttle you. Either Netflix pays or your experience gets worse, and if Netflix does pay then guess what happens to subscription prices. We are a long way from every website having a subscription fee, but it is where the road eventually leads. For now it is just anything that becomes really popular with high bandwidth usage that will have the ISP's lean on them for extra money. Most important thing for corpo's in this situation is to boil the frog slowly so you don't notice until it is too late, think about how micro-transactions and battle passes for live service games have crept into the gaming industry. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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