$1 Trillion, a Small Price to Pay for the Right to Control the Internet

[NamingJournal.com]

Handwriting on the Wall

Here is a thought

Imagine waking up one morning and you are required to get permission from Google or Microsoft before you can even access files on your desktop.

Imagine having to get permission from VeriSign in order to buy or sell a domain name.

Imagine the billions of people who use the internet every year required to obtain access code before they can access the internet.

To make matter worst, image VeriSign, Microsoft, ICANN and International Telecommunication Union under the control of single individual or corporation.

I hope this never happen, should this be the case, what will you do, stop using the internet.

 

[BrandonG]

Wow strange thought. You never know though. The internet is still pretty new, anything could happen.

 

[drifta]

its impossible to implement

 

[digital_freeway]

Here is a thought

Imagine waking up one morning and you are required to get permission from Google or Microsoft before you can even access files on your desktop.

Imagine having to get permission from VeriSign in order to buy or sell a domain name.

Imagine the billions of people who use the internet every year required to obtain access code before they can access the internet.

To make matter worst, image VeriSign, Microsoft, ICANN and International Telecommunication Union under the control of single individual or corporation.

I hope this never happen, should this be the case, what will you do, stop using the internet.

Convince yourself that you're just having a nightmare... a freaky nightmare

 

[bluenoser]

its impossible to implement

Not impossible, all you would really have to do is control the fibre. Wireless and satelite don't have the BW needed for today's information transfer let alone the futures.

As for domains, that is a biggy, and pretty easy to implement.

The desktop one I doubt...

 

[Filespoint]

if that happens i will make my own internet do you know how? by opening a lan network connection 100mbps and putting ethernet and wireless lans everywhere and slowly make it grow. i duno if you understood this but i have a huge imagination

 

[faisj]

I think that moment people will swtich to opensource OS's and a new internet
will be created.

 

[drifta]

Not impossible, all you would really have to do is control the fibre. Wireless and satelite don't have the BW needed for today's information transfer let alone the futures.

As for domains, that is a biggy, and pretty easy to implement.

The desktop one I doubt...

how is microsoft going to make you pay to access your own desltop files?

 

[BrandonG]

They already pretty much do, just a one time charge :P