I am secretly hoping this completely backfires on the cable companies and every startup and alternative news outlet that needs to get data to customers bands together to make end-to-end encrypted peer-to-peer infrastructure for delivering video.
i.e. if Comcast or Time Warner won't carry my bits at a reasonable rate, then I join a consortium of companies that band together to make sure their bits are always available quickly through peer-to-peer technology.
If all the small companies and individuals bands together to hide all their bits collectively behind encryption, there will be little that the telco companies will be able to do.
Just like nature finds a way, so does tech. The Bit torrent and p2p sharing community has little by little protected themselves against almost every attack the government and other institutions has thrown at them. The only successful attacks against p2p technologies have come in the form of legal attacks due to the illegal nature of the content. When the content is not illegal, that attack vector becomes unavailable.
If something like this happens, the only attack left is to attack the customer, which would be a total non-starter risking driving customers into the arms of competitors that are more fair.
The whole problem the net neutrality debase is that is phrased as companies on side Telco vs companies on side Tech/startup. The truth is that this should instead be presented as the companies on side A verus their customers.
i.e. if Comcast or Time Warner won't carry my bits at a reasonable rate, then I join a consortium of companies that band together to make sure their bits are always available quickly through peer-to-peer technology.
If all the small companies and individuals bands together to hide all their bits collectively behind encryption, there will be little that the telco companies will be able to do.
Just like nature finds a way, so does tech. The Bit torrent and p2p sharing community has little by little protected themselves against almost every attack the government and other institutions has thrown at them. The only successful attacks against p2p technologies have come in the form of legal attacks due to the illegal nature of the content. When the content is not illegal, that attack vector becomes unavailable.
If something like this happens, the only attack left is to attack the customer, which would be a total non-starter risking driving customers into the arms of competitors that are more fair.
The whole problem the net neutrality debase is that is phrased as companies on side Telco vs companies on side Tech/startup. The truth is that this should instead be presented as the companies on side A verus their customers.