@Nisamun network speeds have been on a constant and steep rise ever since the first spider started spinning the web with constantly upgrading networks.
Comcast are just greedy bastards, and they will cap customers only as long as they maintain area monopolies. More likely, our future will pan out similar to South Korea today, w/ fiber in every home and no unreasonable caps.
Even WoW is using P2P now, which w/ a fast network can translate into amazing transfer rates for customers. Fast game downloads on the go w/ no physical disks to lose or get scratched or pieces of paper w/ CD codes to hold onto.
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I totally see this happening with Comcast's new cap and the ones that will trickle down to everyone else.
When I need to decide between
A) Buying a game
B) Surfing the internet
C) Watching streaming content
D) Online gaming
E) Buying digital HD movies/tv shows
to stay under that cap (or soon to yours "pay per GB"), I'm gonna guess that your "Physical media is dead" attitude will change a bit.
@Nisamun network speeds have been on a constant and steep rise ever since the first spider started spinning the web with constantly upgrading networks.
Comcast are just greedy bastards, and they will cap customers only as long as they maintain area monopolies. More likely, our future will pan out similar to South Korea today, w/ fiber in every home and no unreasonable caps.
Even WoW is using P2P now, which w/ a fast network can translate into amazing transfer rates for customers. Fast game downloads on the go w/ no physical disks to lose or get scratched or pieces of paper w/ CD codes to hold onto.