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Old 19 March 2011, 09:06 PM
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Old 19 March 2011, 10:02 PM
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inevitable i am afraid
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I hope they fail.

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I don’t see what the big issue is with this - QOS on the net is fine with me, not sure that prioritising this based on the ability to write big cheques is the way to do it though.
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I think they are just doing what everyone else is TBH, they have found a way to get money our of companies that want to show their wares off on the net and by allowing them to pay a few they will be getting premium places, it's only what happens in the real world.
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I think its happening already.

I reckon some UK ISP providers are throttling or doppping packet requests to content based in the USA (or maybe its the US servers throttling to traffic to the UK ISPs, I dunno ).
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