Will throttling affect online publishing?

This is something to keep an eye on: throttling. As internet file sharing continues to erode publishing and copyright revenue, will throttling, or pay-for-speed internet presence, be the ‘net tax’ that solves the web publishing quagmire?

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Few people have been talking about throttling in this sense, but I suspect that sooner or later, paying for one’s place in the Internet queue will be one of the answers for recouping revenue lost to ‘illegal’ file sharers. Check out the following story for the most recent developments. What are your thoughts?

One response to “Will throttling affect online publishing?”

  1. Alex

    There’s been no end to alarmist response to this issue (people don’t seem to tire of reasons to demonize Google, who had been plain-and-simple outbid by Verizon on net neutrality years ago, and were working toward a compromise). This extremely short blurb does not help matters, especially given the off-the-cuff connection to file sharing, and it’d do well to link more than once source at the very least.

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