{"id":5026,"date":"2008-04-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lafundicio.net\/noticia\/la-neutralidad-de-la-red-es-una-tocada-de-huevos\/"},"modified":"2008-04-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T00:00:00","slug":"la-neutralidad-de-la-red-es-una-tocada-de-huevos","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/lafundicio.net\/en\/noticia\/la-neutralidad-de-la-red-es-una-tocada-de-huevos\/","title":{"rendered":"Net Neutrality is a Pain in the Neck."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>Neil Berkett<\/strong>, the new CEO of <strong>Virgin Media<\/strong>, says so. &#8216;Net neutrality&#8217; is one of the &#8220;hot&#8221; concepts of the moment in internet discussion forums. If we understand correctly, the defenders of a &#8216;neutral net&#8217; advocate for a network that does not discriminate between users or uses. The electricity grid could be a good example of a neutral network, since it doesn&#8217;t matter to this network whether you plug in a toaster or a computer, or what you do with these devices. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timwu.org\/network_neutrality.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here<\/a> <strong><br \/>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timwu.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Wu<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong>, one of the precursors of the concept, explains it in a much more enlightening way.   <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">What Virgin Media, the second largest internet provider in the <strong>United Kingdom<\/strong> with approximately 3.6 million customers, wants to do is negotiate with certain content providers to pay for higher download speeds. Thus, for example, Berkett threatened the <strong>BBC<\/strong> itself regarding its online video service <strong><br \/>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalspy.co.uk\/broadcasting\/a93378\/analysis-iplayer-and-the-virtuous-circle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iPlayer<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong>, with delivering its content at the speed of a &#8220;<em>bus line<\/em>&#8221; if they did not enter the Virgin subscriber base. If this can happen to a public company like the BBC, what will happen to the thousands of users who share files through P2P networks? Will we have downloads at scooter speed? <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/virgin-media-ceo-says-net-neutrality-is-a-load-of-bollocks-080413\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TorrentFreak<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-5026","noticia","type-noticia","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lafundicio.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticia\/5026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lafundicio.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lafundicio.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticia"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lafundicio.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lafundicio.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}