Yeah, so I was watching today’s latest episode of Tekzilla which talked about Windows 8. Which to me is just Windows 7 was a service pack to Windows Vista. So anyway, let’s get back on track here. Patrick Norton brought up the topic of the ever increasing data needs of the whole world and how capping is going to have to give way to unlimited data, just as it had always have been. Patrick Norton mentioned that he knew someone that was “in the know” that data capping will end. We all know that there’s a ton of people here that would love to keep us in the dark and stop people from moving on towards the future, which is free data.
At the advent of the internet when capping was virtually non-existent and that only access to the data and the amount of time of having access to it was the only thing that was paid for. Internet Service Providers are going to have to realize when EVERYONE is becoming completely dependent on unlimited data that they will not be able to control or stop us from keeping data as a free element in a completely technology dependent society that we are all moving towards.
It all started when certain ISP’s in the states started charging data or bandwidth to the consumer as they all got lazy and greedy. Then local ISP’s like Wi-Tribe, Globe, Bayantel and Sky followed suit. It’s just completely retarded. Of course they followed since they just found a “new” avenue for profit. You cannot charge for data because from the very beginning, data was free. Bandwidth is free and will always be free. It’s pretty much charging for something that you do not own. Let’s put it this way, you write a program and you decided to give it away to the community. Since the person who made it deemed it as free, then the person who gets it should not charge for it once they choose to “share” it with someone else. Now that to me is piracy. You cannot own something that was free in the first place!
I admit that I have made an illegal copy of stuff once or twice in my day, but who hasn’t?!?! I never charged for them, and I will never plan on making money off of them as it’s for my safekeeping.
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#1 by Stanley on September 25, 2011 - 5:25 pm
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Is this for real? No way! Although when I think about it, I kind of get worried. Although capping does seem to be limiting, it does also serve a bit as a kind of protection for data, right?