How would you feel if your Internet service provider (ISP) suddenly demanded additional monthly payment for access to full speed the popular streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Instant Video and Hulu? What if the traffic peer-to-peer as Bittorrent were suddenly slowed to a crawl or even blocked all together and the only way around the block was with a VPN service?
With net neutrality (almost) dead to the world, all these scenarios are surprisingly possible.
last week, on Tuesday, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia US Circuit ruled that the FCC did not maintain the power to restrict the mobile service providers and broadband Internet to block or eventually interfere with traffic and web applications to the user.
So what exactly does this mean? For starters, companies like Verizon who actually pursued these FCC rules have full reign to decide who gets the best web access and what content is throttled. This could literally lead to the Internet "fast lanes" where users are charged a toll to get the premium content streaming at speeds. The result of these actions could even cause a fork in the popular Web access, separating the major start-ups of the names of suppliers.
Worse, ISPs could play "favorites" and spend large sums of money to get exclusive access to certain brands. Imagine a major cellular provider approving the faster Web access for a manufacturer of mobile phones, while only provide standard speeds to other brands. It may sound exaggerated, but in theory it could happen without laws violated.
We have been down this road before.
In 07, users of BitTorrent US based found that Comcast, one of the largest Internet service providers cable of the nation, has been blocking several core technologies, legal Internet enabling Internet traffic peer -to-peer. In response to these complaints, the FCC ordered Comcast to stop shaping and throttling bitorrent traffic. Comcast has finally appealed to the DC Circuit, and the court ruled in 2010 that the FCC has no jurisdiction in her actions.
Most large ISPs put on a recent statement saying that there were no immediate plans to change any of their services following the decision of the court. One can not help however, whether some of them are just waiting to see how things play in the Supreme Court, where the final decision will be made.
Net Neutrality & VPN services
Some have argued that the continued deterioration of net neutrality could possibly open the door for ISPs to start blocking VPN services and regulation. Although this is only speculation, anything is possible. In theory, providers have the ability to intervene and monitoring and gas / block certain (but not all) VPN protocols. Just look at the current examples of the ISP censorship in countries like China and Iran to see that this type of filtering is not entirely effective. OpenVPN obfuscation techniques and services as SSTP VPN and SSH tunnel services, it will be virtually impossible to isolate and block.
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