{"id":83,"date":"2008-01-16T23:35:07","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T03:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2008\/01\/16\/just-give-me-a-fat-naked-ip-pipe-part-ii\/"},"modified":"2008-01-16T23:35:07","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T03:35:07","slug":"just-give-me-a-fat-naked-ip-pipe-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/just-give-me-a-fat-naked-ip-pipe-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Just give me a fat, naked IP pipe, part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And now we know why Netflix opened offered movie &#8220;rentals&#8221; for <a href=\"http:\/\/\">unlimited streaming<\/a>:  Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/\">announcement yesterday <\/a>about moving into on-line movie rentals.<\/p>\n<p>All of this competition and choice is great for consumers.\u00a0 With Apple, Netflix, Amazon and others duking it out for movies, we&#8217;ll have great options with great features (like HD) at fair prices.<\/p>\n<p>And, this is a great example of why there&#8217;s nervousness about <a href=\"http:\/\/\">network neutrality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A very plausible scenario:\u00a0 watch a bunch of Apple HD movies, and Comcast dings you with a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumeraffairs.com\/news04\/2007\/08\/comcast_ban.html\">too much bandwidth<\/a>&#8221; warning for the month and threatens to disconnect you.\u00a0 Of course, you can watch all of the Comcast-provided movies you want &#8212; is that fair?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now we know why Netflix opened offered movie &#8220;rentals&#8221; for unlimited streaming: Apple&#8217;s announcement yesterday about moving into on-line movie rentals. All of this competition and choice is great for consumers.\u00a0 With Apple, Netflix, Amazon and others duking it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/just-give-me-a-fat-naked-ip-pipe-part-ii\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}