Internet 2, is it true?

No the world is going to end in 2012 so they wont be able to do it. The video you watched is about net neutrality right?xTheExploited

This is impossible. What is going to keep me from uploading bandwidth to other people? Unless they just make it illegal to use the internet. The internet is simply a bunch of connected computers.dmc333

[QUOTE="dmc333"]This is impossible. What is going to keep me from uploading bandwidth to other people? Unless they just make it illegal to use the internet. The internet is simply a bunch of connected computers.markop2003

Yes, but if they turn off the internet to what people want, people will simply stop using it. How do people still use torrents, considering almost everything on there is illegal......ISPs still are not stopping people from using them, and it is impossible for them to figure illegal traffic from legal traffic.. It makes them money also. Unless the isps become totally monopolized, we might have a problem. Even then...

[QUOTE="markop2003"][QUOTE="dmc333"]This is impossible. What is going to keep me from uploading bandwidth to other people? Unless they just make it illegal to use the internet. The internet is simply a bunch of connected computers.dmc333

Yes, but if they turn off the internet to what people want, people will simply stop using it. How do people still use torrents, considering almost everything on there is illegal......ISPs still are not stopping people from using them, and it is impossible for them to figure illegal traffic from legal traffic.. It makes them money also. Unless the isps become totally monopolized, we might have a problem. Even then...

Ok, so my friend said to me that he watched a Youtube video about "Internet 2" and basically that by 2012 they plan to kill the Internet as we know it now, for a new more corporate owned Internet where everything is monitored and basically no freedoms what soever. Is this true? Do any of you think this will happen. I hope not. And he also said that they will make us pay for acess to every website.DazedDarkness

well there it is, internet 2 is going to be the cause of the worlds end in 2012

Last I heard, it was called "The Grid."

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[QUOTE="markop2003"] Connected through ISPs which are owned privately....kemar7856

Yes, but if they turn off the internet to what people want, people will simply stop using it. How do people still use torrents, considering almost everything on there is illegal......ISPs still are not stopping people from using them, and it is impossible for them to figure illegal traffic from legal traffic.. It makes them money also. Unless the isps become totally monopolized, we might have a problem. Even then...

That is why I use a smaller local isp, instead of one like time warner who is in the movie business:roll:. Plus, if they are going to limit me to the web technology of 1995, I might as well go back to 56k. Plus with voip and youtube alowing dvd quality videos. The limits are going to have to be atleast be 100gb a month, or they will be getting a lot of complaints. People will simply stop using it.

The only relevant thing I heard about this was that by 2012 the internet will die by itself anyway, at least in the UK it will. The wires used to carry the information were originally used for telephones, not the internet. And because the internet keeps expanding, it will eventually collapse on itself by 2012. Fibre Optic broadband is the way to go, because it can hold more bandwidth (or something like that). But in order to provide Fibe Optic for the entire UK would take around 2 years and cost a lot of money. I did read this a fair while ago (a few months) in a newspaper, so maybe it's changed since then.Murj

[QUOTE="Murj"]The only relevant thing I heard about this was that by 2012 the internet will die by itself anyway, at least in the UK it will. The wires used to carry the information were originally used for telephones, not the internet. And because the internet keeps expanding, it will eventually collapse on itself by 2012. Fibre Optic broadband is the way to go, because it can hold more bandwidth (or something like that). But in order to provide Fibe Optic for the entire UK would take around 2 years and cost a lot of money. I did read this a fair while ago (a few months) in a newspaper, so maybe it's changed since then.xaos

Ok, so my friend said to me that he watched a Youtube video about "Internet 2" and basically that by 2012 they plan to kill the Internet as we know it now, for a new more corporate owned Internet where everything is monitored and basically no freedoms what soever. Is this true? Do any of you think this will happen. I hope not. And he also said that they will make us pay for acess to every website.DazedDarkness

I bolded the things in your statement that prove it's false.