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All of the major carriers are plotting to end the internet as we know it...

 

From an article by Jeff Chester on The Nation:

 

"The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online.

Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other communications giants are developing strategies that would track and store information on our every move in cyberspace in a vast data-collection and marketing system, the scope of which could rival the National Security Agency. According to white papers now being circulated in the cable, telephone and telecommunications industries, those with the deepest pockets--corporations, special-interest groups and major advertisers--would get preferred treatment. Content from these providers would have first priority on our computer and television screens, while information seen as undesirable, such as peer-to-peer communications, could be relegated to a slow lane or simply shut out. "

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"As the Baby Bells falsely complain about how people aren't paying them for the internet, or whine about how it's unfair to expect them to compete against muni-broadband, there's something important to remember."...

 

 

Too little too late. They need to face a class action lawsuit for damaging people's computers. A lot of individuals and companies writing and distributing viri and spyware are going to jail for essentially doing the same thing as Sony.

Mark at SysInternals disects a Sony CD DRM protection which includes installation of a poorly written Rootkit Trojan to protect their content.