Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Net Neutrality and Torrents

Yeah, so that whole big thing going around about net neutrality... It affects torrents too. So how many people out there watch movies and videos on sites such as YouTube, Netflix? How many people rely on Google to find streams of their favorite shows they missed? If people had to pay additional money to use these services and websites and pay for their internet then a good amount of them would resort to pirating to watch them. Look, people don't like when prices get raised. Imagine having your phone bill raised always to twice the price. What do you do? You switch phone carriers. So what do you do when the government raises prices on the internet? You resort to a different means and get things for free. Why does the government put themselves in these situations where they try and take control of things that they have no business in? It's very hard to say if any of this stuff will happen and while it will most likely not ever happen I will be ready to protest in case it ever does.

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