Virgin Media Thinks Net Neutrality Is “Bollocks”
Found this by way of the Something Awful forums, a post in the TorrentFreak blog gives an interesting view of Virgin Media’s plans.
Basically, their aim is to throttle the bandwidth to services that don’t pay a premium to Virgin Media.
In an interview with the Royal Television Society’s Television magazine, far from covering up their intentions, Virgin Media’s new incoming CEO Neil Berkett - who joined the Virgin Media Board just a few days ago - has launched an attack on the ideas and principles behind net neutrality.
“This net neutrality thing is a load of bollocks,†he said, adding that Virgin is already in the process of doing deals to speed up the traffic of certain media providers.
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