Net Neutrality

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Net Neutrality is the principal with all online traffic should be treated equally. This Means that if you pay for a certain speed up internet connection you should be able to use all that speed , all the time regardless of which site or services your using, this idea is important to make sure that you get your downloads quickly, your able to watch online videos like Netflix or YouTube without any problems, you can play games without being affected by lagan, you can load your favorite website without having to wait to take any once permission. But some ISP 's want to be able to charge users, online companies for what they call the fast lane, what that really means is that they will be able to slow down user , all companies connection …show more content…

But the evidences showing that, in most of the cases ISP's used "Traffic management" in a negative way. for example in 2007 Comcast installed a new software which don't allow the users to connect to the Bit Torrent and peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing communications , ISP's argues that P2P applications such as Bit Torrent consuming most of the bandwidth that provided by the ISP's and this is against to net neutrality , one of the basic principle in net neutrality is "No Blocking", ISP's don't have any right to block access to specific websites. Sometimes ISP's intentionally reducing the speed of certain services such as Netflix to promote their services, ISP's like Comcast also have their own media services , they also sell the TV shows and movies through online like Netflix, for example if …show more content…

day by day speed of internet growing along with number of users,70% of people argues that , there is nothing wrong with downloading illegal softwares,music and movies , but it will effect the global economy, below are the some of the examples which supports it.
• Estimated economy lost due to piracy is $200 to $250 billion in U.S in the year of 2005.
• Music industry profit in U.S decreased from $14.6 billion to $7.0 billion during 1999 to

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