Posted on 02/26/2015 11:01:27 AM PST by Nachum
Dallas Mavericks owner and investor Mark Cuban predicted that proposed FCC Internet regulations will end up impacting TV and “your TV as you know it is over” on Thursday’s “Squawk Alley” on CNBC.
Cuban began by predicting “the courts will rule the Internet for the next however many years.” He then explained, “let’s just take it all the way through its logical conclusion. All bits are bits, all bits are equal. If all bits are equal, then let’s look at what a stream bit is an example. So when Henry and I do an interview, and it’s streamed lived on the Internet, there’s a camera, it goes through an encoder, it sends it out via server or some manner to the Internet, you click on Business Insider and you watch the stream, right? Now, let’s look at CNBC on Comcast. There’s cameras right in front of you, they go through a switcher, they go through an encoder, it’s put through a server, it goes to Comcast, and it’s streamed in a managed service environment to television. It’s the exact same thing. And if it’s the exact same thing technologically and all bits are equal, then why shouldn’t CNBC and all TV networks that are delivered on cable, and Telco, and fiber like Verizon, why shouldn’t they be part of the open Internet as well? And if they are and all bits are equal, now, let’s take it one step further. It’s the purview of the FCC now. The FCC, right? So, the FCC now has to apply their same standards to content, don’t they, that they do to television content because that’s where it is and there’s going to be certain citizens who think ‘
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Hey Mark......everything is over as we know it in USA. Ammo next on list soon to be your IRAs and bank accounts.
OK, my neighbors have Netflix.
They cut their cable.
Netflix takes up a huge portion of the internet.
I just want to read short miniscule by comparison text from here and other sites.
I can’t read FR because my neighbor has Netflix?
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
Wanna bet this schmuck voted for obozo — TWICE??
Hey, Marky, PAYBACK’S A BITCH, HUH??
I wonder how this is going to play out. No doubt we are headed towards tyranny, anyone who doubts that is on crack. This punk is going into overdrive and the fix is in with Congress. With the exception of a few, all of them are traitors, all of them should be hung. I think it will start off small, riots and looting will start then armed gangs will start having shoot outs with the cops and national guard, then militias will take action the same way until we evolve into another full blown rebellion. The danger will be anarchy above all else. This isn’t two competing armies like the Union and the Confederacy, North and South. This will be the entire country looking to overthrow the government which will happen very fast but then when that happens, you can end up with something much worse due to that anarchy with groups fighting each other.
All of Radio ,TV and Internet will be assigned an Obama approved Minder to keep them inline
I see that Comcast charged Netflix an EXTRA CHARGE to “speed up” access for Netflix. I’m sure those millions of dollars being charged to Netflix is being passed on to me as a customer of Netflix.
The thing is, I pay for my bandwidth already. Netflix pays for its bandwidth ... so why am I having to pay MORE when both sides have paid FULLY for bandwidth?
Cuban is part of the problem. Another Obama ass kisser who supported the takeover of healthcare, amnesty and the tin pot dicktator in the WH. Screw him and those like him.
He has a point from a technical standpoint. He just expresses it very badly.
Data travels over the web in packets. If all packets must be treated equally then legally the ISP’s can’t treat a packet from your streaming video or your VOIP call with any greater priority than a packet from an email from a Romanian scammer.
Hence your shows and calls will continually drop as the packets get in line.
I don’t know how it will play out. If he gets his civil unrest then he can use Marshall law and stop elections right?
Yep, these net neutrality supporters will be the first to bitch and whine when their packets start dropping.
Can’t Congress stop all these regs?? They made the laws to establish these agencies, n’est-ce pas? I am so sick of Congress for not stopping the regs. My biggest soap box is the water flow gadget that goes into the new kitchen faucets. I have very low water pressure now because of the EPA. In country we have so much water there is no reason to control the water. And now my next complaint is this net neutrality. I’ve already emailed my three reps about NN. But nothing will be done. I feel so helpless.
Mark Cuban? I doubt that.
Under Net Neutrality, Comcast wouldn’t be able to increase charges on Netflix and thereby the consumer.
I don’t understand why everyone is against Net Neutrality.
You all realize that if there is no Net Neutrality, then Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, and etc. could decide to limit Free Republic baud rate just the same as how they would limit Netflix’s?
So your ISP could decide on its own- outside of market influence- to slow down your access to FR...to Netflix...to Gmail, whatever! And what are you going to do if that happens? Go to another ISP? Well what if they decide to collude against what they think is “hate speech”?
You really trust the government, and this administration that much?
Thought we will probably never know, think for a moment about that B’Ball team he owns. It’s composed largely of...?
Oh, never mind.
And if you’re referring to his wealth, that wasn’t a problem for Winfrey, the bulk of that crowd in Hollyweird, etc.
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