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Banned Joined: Sep 13 2008 Posts: 3129

I think that if people don't start getting money that means they can't pay there service providers and then they have to disconnect their servers.

DISCUSS

Posted: Feb 11 2009 02:35 am

It's not a matter of people paying for the service, many people will go out of their way to pay for the internet. What will cause the end of the internet is the way the services want to charge you. For one, they are making bandwidth caps, if you use so much then you are screwed for the month. Also, they are planning on making you pay to get access to only the most popular sites, like Myspace and Youtube. You will have to pay them to go on other sites not included with the service.

To avoid this, you should fight for Net Neutrality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality

Posted: Feb 11 2009 03:16 am

The internet will collapse once you finally...

Oh god damn it. I can't even bring myself to mock hacker properly.

Someone, mock him for me. I am heading to bed.

Docinsano's Channel 63 · Posted: Feb 11 2009 03:27 am

Eh, I'm not even going to bother. The internet will not collapse. </the_end>

Posted: Feb 11 2009 05:43 am

Imminent Death of the Net Predicted! Film at 11.

Posted: Feb 11 2009 08:49 am

No it will not. The end.

Posted: Feb 11 2009 04:46 pm

The internet will not end, but God willing, some big sites will go under. Hopefully IGN and Gamedaily. More traffic for me!

Posted: Feb 11 2009 04:49 pm

Thanks for unlocking this thread.

I wish somebody else here would take this more seriously. The internet may not collapse, but it may become corporate. Then sites like this will die.

Posted: Feb 11 2009 04:50 pm

If you guys don't listen to AL Gore about global warming he's gonna shut the internet off. Razz

Posted: Feb 11 2009 04:51 pm

Blackout wrote:

If you guys don't listen to AL Gore about global warming he's gonna shut the internet off. Razz

Lmfao!

Posted: Feb 11 2009 05:00 pm

DarknessDeku wrote:

I wish somebody else here would take this more seriously. The internet may not collapse, but it may become corporate. Then sites like this will die.

I don't think that's realistic. But large sites like YouTube could become unsustainable. Sites like YouTube, 1UP.com, IGN, and GameFAQs are sustainable primarily if not entirely through ad revenue. With the economy stagnation showing no signs of relenting, companies will cut internet advertising expenditures, opting instead for viral campaigns. This will cut the revenues of such sites. At the same time, website server host sites will be forced to raise hosting prices to keep afloat, thus causing big sites to have a significantly higher overhead.

LESS MONIES + MOAR OVERHEAD = UH-OH.

Posted: Feb 11 2009 05:06 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

DarknessDeku wrote:

I wish somebody else here would take this more seriously. The internet may not collapse, but it may become corporate. Then sites like this will die.

I don't think that's realistic. But large sites like YouTube could become unsustainable. Sites like YouTube, 1UP.com, IGN, and GameFAQs are sustainable primarily if not entirely through ad revenue. With the economy stagnation showing no signs of relenting, companies will cut internet advertising expenditures, opting instead for viral campaigns. This will cut the revenues of such sites. At the same time, website server host sites will be forced to raise hosting prices to keep afloat, thus causing big sites to have a significantly higher overhead.

LESS MONIES + MOAR OVERHEAD = UH-OH.

I never understood banner ads, who the fuck is actually intrigued enough by them to click them and check them out? Maybe I'm a bit old school but I remember when the internet was RIFE with spammy obnoxious fucking useless banner ads and pop ups, and learned early on to disregard them. Confused

Banned Joined: Sep 13 2008 Posts: 3129

Thanks syd I really wanted to have a discussion

Any way hosting sites does cost money. Granted it costs less to host a site on your own server. But bandwidth also costs money and when the prices rise poeple will end up changing their service plan lowering the amount of bandwidth they have. Or they can do they alternative and put some adds on their website

Posted: Feb 11 2009 05:10 pm

How much revenue do ads really generate? I've always ignored them. Am I rare in that? Confused

Posted: Feb 11 2009 05:17 pm

Some ads are paid for straight up, not in terms of clicks.

Like when MKvDCU comes out and suddenly you have to click past an ad for it to get to IGN, IGN is making money off that hijack whether you click it or not.

Posted: Feb 11 2009 05:52 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

Some ads are paid for straight up, not in terms of clicks.

Like when MKvDCU comes out and suddenly you have to click past an ad for it to get to IGN, IGN is making money off that hijack whether you click it or not.

Yup. They know that most people don't click on them anymore, but people still SEE the ad, which is really prime function of ads to begin with, to touch one of the senses and implant the idea of a certain service or product, even at a subconscious level. It's really quite dirty.

Posted: Feb 11 2009 07:33 pm

Rycona wrote:

Syd Lexia wrote:

Some ads are paid for straight up, not in terms of clicks.

Like when MKvDCU comes out and suddenly you have to click past an ad for it to get to IGN, IGN is making money off that hijack whether you click it or not.

Yup. They know that most people don't click on them anymore, but people still SEE the ad, which is really prime function of ads to begin with, to touch one of the senses and implant the idea of a certain service or product, even at a subconscious level. It's really quite dirty.

Just wait for commercials in your dreams. Razz

Docinsano's Channel 63 · Posted: Feb 11 2009 07:40 pm

Well, the internet won't collapse, but it may break a leg or an arm or two...

Title: Alexz Aficionado Joined: May 21 2008 Posts: 2889

*inserts mocking hacker reply*

Posted: Feb 11 2009 08:16 pm

I had a whole block of text written out, then I just said fuck it. The internet is not going to "collapse".

Posted: Feb 11 2009 09:00 pm

Everyone will be reduced to dial-up like yours truly. Hell on Earth.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

I am not in the mood to write a lot, so I'll write as little as I can and still make some points.

ISPs are trying to create internet packages. They want to charge based on the content you want to see. You can buy the "basic package" with Google and CNN.com, the advanced package with Yahoo!, MSN, and Wikipedia, or the unlimited package with Sydlexia.com.

Thank god for Google. They own so much infrastructure that they might be able to actually create a second set of hard lines and keep the big ISPs legit. Also the US government is looking into free wireless internet access for 95% of Americans in 10 years. While this isn't a promise, it is something that is being seriously looked into.

None of this will matter because 2012 is just around the corner.

Posted: Feb 12 2009 01:55 pm

GPFontaine wrote:

I am not in the mood to write a lot, so I'll write as little as I can and still make some points.

ISPs are trying to create internet packages. They want to charge based on the content you want to see. You can buy the "basic package" with Google and CNN.com, the advanced package with Yahoo!, MSN, and Wikipedia, or the unlimited package with Sydlexia.com.

Thank god for Google. They own so much infrastructure that they might be able to actually create a second set of hard lines and keep the big ISPs legit. Also the US government is looking into free wireless internet access for 95% of Americans in 10 years. While this isn't a promise, it is something that is being seriously looked into.

None of this will matter because 2012 is just around the corner.

Dun dun dunnnnnnn...

Posted: Feb 12 2009 01:57 pm

The internet is not a big truck, it's a series of tubes.

Posted: Feb 12 2009 02:09 pm

GPFontaine wrote:

You can buy the "basic package" with Google and CNN.com, the advanced package with Yahoo!, MSN, and Wikipedia, or the unlimited package with Sydlexia.com.

Um... Google is completely fucking useless if you can't connect to searched links?