Virgin Media have announced to users that new “Traffic Management”, (or “throttling” as it’s called in the real World), will be enforced for “heavy” users of their Broadband Internet service.
There’s seems to be a large conflict growing in the online space at the moment. On one hand, you have the content providers wanting to push the rich Web 2.0 experiences, and on the other you have the ISPs slowing it all down.
It was the ISPs that provided the bandwidth that allows heavy content sites to exist and yet now they’re taking it all away after companies have invested billions in the area. As pointed out on other sites, the restrictions being put in place by Virgin Media stop even the ability to download one XBOX 360 Live Arcade game or a Playstation 3 legit download.
It’s getting out of hand – with so many high bandwidth legit uses of the Internet, there needs to be cheaper ways to transport all this data.
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