Google sells out
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- Iggyboo0
If they pull that stunt they'll only attack businesses. And that will effect not the consumer. The businesses will pay for their content delivery and users will pick up the tab on movies, like a fucking tax. And if that happens the point of the internet is going to get bogged down to the point of stupidity over gigabytes. Truthfully they should be upgrading the internet lines and systems so that data transfer should never be an issue. But I do think some culprits IE lastfm, pandora, and most likely netflix will get slammed with huge bills. But I don't think they should pay for that. Verizon has no business interfering with this.
- moldero0
sounds similar to something rupert murdoch was trying to do years ago. prick.
- meffid0
I'm going back to http://dogpile.com/
- benfal990
Iam farting at GOOGLE
- mtgentry0
Google says NY Times is full of crap:
- Continuity0
The title of this thread makes me laugh. How does a corporation - which exists to make money - 'sell out', exactly?
- Because their mantra is don't be evil. Most techies would consider this a bad move.mtgentry
- Well, it's another lesson in the obvious: corporations are not to be believed. They aren't out friends, and they aren't 'citizens'.Continuity
- aren't our*Continuity
- rtfa. danke.kpl
- True, but I have higher expectations for Google than say, Halliburton or BPmtgentry
- kingkong0
we've had a decade of free music, free information, free film, free communication, free software, free everything.
Now all that free stuff has embedded as habit, someone has to try to make is work economically otherwise it disappears.
- yeah b/c no one makes money on the internet!plash
- What was google's market cap again?TheBlueOne
- ItTango0
@kingkong
Then charge me for the content I download, charge me for my consumption of information as packaged in certain forms, etc. The point is it is then my choice as to whether I will pay... or not. In general, I think the prices for some things are not high enough.Net Neutrality is only about loot on the surface. What's really happening is all about the ability to control what gets from here to there.
- instrmntl0
Google has been evil for quite some time now. It definitely in character.
- instrmntl0
I think I'm going to delete Chrome. Fuck them.
- Samush0
i have come to the conclusion that the internet is evil all together.
it's a shame really, i used to like the web, then it became all mainstream and corporate- oh no wait it's always been like that, it's only now we're seeing the worst of it with BS like this.
- acescence0
just so we're all clear as mtgentry mentioned above the story is bs according to google so carry on nothing to see here.
@NYTimes is wrong. We've not had any convos with VZN about paying for carriage of our traffic. We remain committed to an open internet.
- ukit0
It's worth asking whether Google has become too powerful. We all use them because we just assume it's the best but how good will the web be if it's main functionality (search) is only dominated by one company?
- DrBombay0
Here is a bit more on what acescence is talking about.
http://mashable.com/2010/08/05/g…Also, with google's advertising reach spanning the entire internet, what advantage would they have by having one internet property being faster than anything else?
- They could make it impossible for a competitor to sprout up to something like YouTubeukit
- I don't think this is what this is about.DrBombay
- No, that's exactly what people are concerned about with this. The big corps pay for delivering their content faster, leading to a technological advantage.ukit
- end of level playing field on the web.ukit
- No, I understand it but I don't see it being in google's interest to make agreements like this.DrBombay
- The more people use the internet, the more money google makes. stifling it isn't aligned with that.DrBombay
- Google has a "whole internet" strategy. Stifling certain elements doesn't make much sense.DrBombay
- It's a fair point. Although there's no doubt other companies would be strongly in favor of such a thing.ukit
- Dodecahedron0
so who's making stories up and why?