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On Wednesday, The Internet As We Know It Dies
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Re: On Wednesday, The Internet As We Know It Dies
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04-28-2006, 11:04 PM
This is all very nice, but it'll go nowhere.
Look, plain and simple - AT&T goes to Google and says 'give us more money or we'll drop your packets,' Goggle tells them to piss off, and puts up a nice little web page saying "AT&T Customers, you're having trouble because AT&T is trying to fleece us for more money."
AT&T Customers bitch at AT&T and/or leave the company to an alternate ISP. Guy who proposed the entire things gets fired for costing the company millions and giving them bad press. AT&T relents, and everything goes back to normal.

How about al alternate example? Say some Amazon-competitior (call them Spartan) turns around and makes a deal with Roadrunner to get 'preferential' access to the Roadrunner network. So anyone going to Spartan.com gets faster response than Amazon.com.
Does anything change? NO. Those customers are still going to Amazon, because they're the better company.

Seriously, I think you're all making mountains out of molehills here. --
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
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Re: On Wednesday, The Internet As We Know It Dies - by Necratoid - 04-25-2006, 05:18 AM
Re: On Wednesday, The Internet As We Know It Dies - by Necratoid - 04-25-2006, 04:39 PM
A little light reading. - by Rev Dark - 04-25-2006, 05:03 PM
Re: A little light reading. - by Necratoid - 04-25-2006, 05:45 PM
Come Again? - by Rev Dark - 04-25-2006, 07:21 PM
Re: Come Again? - by Necratoid - 04-25-2006, 11:20 PM
*sigh* - by Astynax - 04-26-2006, 07:20 AM
Alienating your customer base... a new business model. - by Necratoid - 04-26-2006, 07:40 AM
The message, not the medium - by Rev Dark - 04-26-2006, 01:52 PM
Re: The message, not the medium - by ECSNorway - 04-26-2006, 04:51 PM
Re: The message, not the medium - by Necratoid - 04-26-2006, 07:27 PM
Re: The message, not the medium - by Valles - 04-26-2006, 08:01 PM
Once more - by Rev Dark - 04-27-2006, 02:40 PM
Let me try to explain this again in more detail - by Necratoid - 04-27-2006, 09:11 PM
Re: On Wednesday, The Internet As We Know It Dies - by jpub - 04-28-2006, 11:04 PM
Re: On Wednesday, The Internet As We Know It Dies - by Necratoid - 04-29-2006, 12:44 AM
Re: On Wednesday, The Internet As We Know It Dies - by LantisEscudo - 04-29-2006, 01:56 AM
Re: On Wednesday, The Internet As We Know It Dies - by Necratoid - 05-01-2006, 12:06 AM
Re: On Wednesday, The Internet As We Know It Dies - by LantisEscudo - 05-01-2006, 11:19 AM
Re: On Wednesday, The Internet As We Know It Dies - by Necratoid - 05-02-2006, 08:15 PM
Re: On Wednesday, The Internet As We Know It Dies - by LantisEscudo - 05-02-2006, 08:51 PM
Re: On Wednesday, The Internet As We Know It Dies - by Necratoid - 05-03-2006, 12:17 AM
Re: On Wednesday, The Internet As We Know It Dies - by LantisEscudo - 05-03-2006, 12:39 AM

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