SCN: Business Wants a New, Profitable Internet

[Brian High]

Business Wants a New, Profitable Internet
http://slashdot.org/yro/01/07/26/1553257.shtml

"Time to drum out the "hippie anarchists" and put some real business sense
into this mess! Or, if you can't adapt your business plan to the Internet,
then change the Internet to facilitate you business plan."

"See this article in the LA Times."
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-072601netarch.story

"...so some big corporations think the answer is to change the Internet's
basic wiring. By adding "intelligent" switches and other devices, they
believe, the system could work faster, avoid traffic jams, distinguish
between high-priority data and other material that can wait, and generally
live up to its promise as a worldwide communications and entertainment
medium."

"But doing so almost inevitably means bringing more of the network under
commercial control. For consumers, the change might mean faster downloads of
video clips and Webcasts. But it also might mean a raft of fees for special
services and the appearance of "gatekeepers" with the power to keep certain
Web sites or content from appearing on home computers, just as cable systems
control which channels can be shown on their subscribers' TVs and at what
price."

--Brian

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