Is Google Backtracking On Net Neutrality?

[DudeAsInCool]

The Wall Street Journal reports 'maybe':

"Google Inc. has approached major cable and phone companies that carry Internet traffic with a proposal to create a fast lane for its own content, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Google has traditionally been one of the loudest advocates of equal network access for all content providers.

At risk is a principle known as network neutrality: Cable and phone companies that operate the data pipelines are supposed to treat all traffic the same -- nobody is supposed to jump the line."

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[DudeAsInCool]

Google Not Turning Its Back on Network Neutrality

Updated @ 9:30 pm: In response to an earlier story in The Wall Street Journal, Google offered a clarification and reaffirmed its stance on network neutrality and pointed out that it is not backing away from it. It has dismissed the WSJ story as confused. Instead, Google explained that the OpenEdge effort (the subject of the WSJ story) was a plan to peer its edge-caching devices directly with the network operators so that the users of those broadband carriers get faster access to Google and YouTube’s content.

“Google has offered to “colocate” caching servers within broadband providers’ own facilities; this reduces the provider’s bandwidth costs since the same video wouldn’t have to be transmitted multiple times,”

Richard Whitt, Google’s Washington Telecom and Media Counsel wrote on company’s Policy blog.

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Good. For a moment I saw the Second World Internet War on the horizon since the fall of Napster I wonder whether Lessig was was misquoted?

[Redneck4sure]

“Google has offered to “colocate” caching servers within broadband providers’ own facilities; this reduces the provider’s bandwidth costs since the same video wouldn’t have to be transmitted multiple times,”

I wish someone would colocate some music servers in my house and save me the bandwidth.

[DudeAsInCool]

I wish someone would colocate some music servers in my house and save me the bandwidth.

You can store up to a Trigobyte of media on Hordit - will that cover your ass?

[Redneck4sure]

That site looks kinda handy. Have you tried it? wtf is a trigobyte? I haven't seen that term before. The last time I saw trig anything it was in high school and it sucked.

[DudeAsInCool]

That site looks kinda handy. Have you tried it? wtf is a trigobyte? I haven't seen that term before. The last time I saw trig anything it was in high school and it sucked.

Trigobyte = a couple of your hard drives

[Redneck4sure]

I have so damn many I need to figger something out. The last 3 I bought were a terabyte each so that is a help. They have also gotten much cheaper. 3 yrs ago a 300gig cost around $150. Now you can get a terabye for a little less.

You can get me more terabyte hard drives for Christmas.