2012: The Year The Internet Ends

[psalzmann]

06/01/2008 - Every significant Internet provider around the globe is currently in talks with access and content providers to transform the internet into a television-like medium: no more freedom, you pay for a small commercial package of sites you can visit and you'll have to pay for seperate subscriptions for every site that's not in the package.

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[Keral_Patel]

New ISPs will emerge who will provide the current services :D

No way they can stop people from visiting the site they want to visit.

Who would like a handicapped internet.

 

[Pred]

lol
its only a joke article im guessing

i mean 1 sentence in i realised google would lose out bigtime and google owns their asses :sold so that alone alone means it could never happen lol :sold:

 

[tweoro]

It can't be possible . Traffic will fall incredibly ( just think about it - what would happen with messengeR ? people paying for this ? I can't believe it ) , and if traffic falls , internet advertising will dissapear . Everybody will have to lose , and this isn't possible.

 

[DulceNegosyante]

Smells like another Y2K issue.

 

[DADomains]

Well, I think to due to media scares people will start to feel something is going happen in 2012, so I bought and parked these sites not too long ago:

2012research.com
Anul2012.com

All the other good ones were already taken.

 

[Michael]

I guess the people at iPower forgot the </sarcasm> tag.

 

[psalzmann]

I'd like to hear some thoughts on why you gents feel this wouldn't happen. According to the people who made the video, this is a serious issue and is something we've all heard about before. There is just not enough discussion about it. People are trying to change the face of the web as it is now and you all know that. Take a glance at your domain industry news. People all over from all walks of life are trying to implement rules, laws, regulations, and for your to assume otherwise is taking the situation for granted.

This article was not flagged as inacurate from the Digg community, with well over 4,000 diggs in a 3 day period, I'm not too sure you should consider this a laughing matter. On topic, I do hope this is a joke but I'm certainly not laughing (yet). It would have been nice to see that site offer more evidence as to who or where the "insider" information is coming from, but it's not abnormal for something like this to happen. It happens everyday. Insider information is well, Insider information right? I'm certain that this is the start of a movement that we're going to see more of as time moves on.

Why wouldn't they want to do this? It makes perfect sense for the big guns. I don't think you'll find the people listed on that image laughing. It's their game and they want everyone else to go away. That makes sense to me. Think eBay. Think about the mass amount of money they are losing due to continous boycotts, continuous negative responses and how uBid and other players are taking eBay's traffic to the bank. That's just ONE company listed on that image.

You already saw eBay's move with the payment gateway monetized. What more do you want? Do some research based on the companies listed in that illustration. This is serious business IMO. I hope it's not but it sounds pretty concrete. On a side note, I saw Google on that image too. I recently read an article based on how come google hasn't been charged with global monetization yet? I mean they do everything from Search, Advertising, Pictures, Funding Space Exploration, purchasing mobile sectors, purchasing their own INTERNET from the dark fibre.. I mean how much more do we need here?

Then consider one last thing:

TV media logic has not changed in 20+ years. It's the same it has always been. We're forced to watch what we are provided. Of course we are given package choices for cable or sat, but come on. You would think that would have changed by now.. (You know? use the remote to find a program you want to watch? how about using the remote to view "re-runs" of Mork and Mindy (joke) ... but all we see are innovative companies creating TIVO and other on demand recording features for your standard tv. WHO CARES.

They don't want ANYTHING to change because it's a huge money maker. Don't fix what's not broken right? Right. Now think Google. Think how many people watch tv on google and other sites. Guess what? people are using the web more than watching tv. I believe that. What happens here? this situation we're discussing here now. 2+2 = 4.

Well the same interest applies to the web. These corporate interests care less about the people earning a living on the web, want to monetize it the same way TV is monetized. Make sense to me Do I believe that? Yes. Am I naive about this specific situation? Perhaps. That's just because I'd like to learn more. I thought it would be a good way to get everyone's thoughts here on NamePros. You guys are very smart, know a lot about what's going on ... so many of you hope this doesn't happen, many of you feel this is a joke... I think we really need to get to the bottom of this and learn if it is true to false. If true, then what?

(if false, we can all go on our way - business as usual). But if true, this would effect everyone. You've been blowing your money left right and center on domains, buying and selling - all that means nothing if this kicks in.

Just a thought.

Edit - Okay sorry folks. It's reported as inacurate but it's received almost 10,000 digs. So I'm not really sure what to think.

Just an update.

 

[lukas339]

I don´t think it will happen in 2012. Maybe later for example in 2050 but IMHO 2012 isn´t very real...

 

[briman1970]

Why wouldn't they want to do this? It makes perfect sense for the big guns. I don't think you'll find the people listed on that image laughing. It's their game and they want everyone else to go away. That makes sense to me. Think eBay. Think about the mass amount of money they are losing due to continous boycotts, continuous negative responses and how uBid and other players are taking eBay's traffic to the bank. That's just ONE company listed on that image.

You already saw eBay's move with the payment gateway monetized. What more do you want? Do some research based on the companies listed in that illustration. This is serious business IMO. I hope it's not but it sounds pretty concrete. On a side note, I saw Google on that image too.

That image is a fabrication, just like the article and video. I don't believe any of this for one second. I posted my reasons already.

 

[mjnels]

its really too late now...

people love the concept of "the internet", most of the population that has electricity has at least heard about the internet and knows of its usefulness in some way.

if something like this were to happen, someone/some company would likely come along and open it back up.

 

[Pred]

I guess the people at iPower forgot the </sarcasm> tag.

:sold:

 

[HeyNow]

You're probably right, and so are the hippies in the video. Domainers should welcome the opportunities. When packages of content channels are sold to subscribers, each domain will be a channel. Each domain is already a channel, though most are unimportant channels.

I'd like to hear some thoughts on why you gents feel this wouldn't happen. According to the people who made the video, this is a serious issue and is something we've all heard about before. There is just not enough discussion about it. People are trying to change the face of the web as it is now and you all know that. Take a glance at your domain industry news. People all over from all walks of life are trying to implement rules, laws, regulations, and for your to assume otherwise is taking the situation for granted.

This article was not flagged as inacurate from the Digg community, with well over 4,000 diggs in a 3 day period, I'm not too sure you should consider this a laughing matter. On topic, I do hope this is a joke but I'm certainly not laughing (yet). It would have been nice to see that site offer more evidence as to who or where the "insider" information is coming from, but it's not abnormal for something like this to happen. It happens everyday. Insider information is well, Insider information right? I'm certain that this is the start of a movement that we're going to see more of as time moves on.

Why wouldn't they want to do this? It makes perfect sense for the big guns. I don't think you'll find the people listed on that image laughing. It's their game and they want everyone else to go away. That makes sense to me. Think eBay. Think about the mass amount of money they are losing due to continous boycotts, continuous negative responses and how uBid and other players are taking eBay's traffic to the bank. That's just ONE company listed on that image.

You already saw eBay's move with the payment gateway monetized. What more do you want? Do some research based on the companies listed in that illustration. This is serious business IMO. I hope it's not but it sounds pretty concrete. On a side note, I saw Google on that image too. I recently read an article based on how come google hasn't been charged with global monetization yet? I mean they do everything from Search, Advertising, Pictures, Funding Space Exploration, purchasing mobile sectors, purchasing their own INTERNET from the dark fibre.. I mean how much more do we need here?

Then consider one last thing:

TV media logic has not changed in 20+ years. It's the same it has always been. We're forced to watch what we are provided. Of course we are given package choices for cable or sat, but come on. You would think that would have changed by now.. (You know? use the remote to find a program you want to watch? how about using the remote to view "re-runs" of Mork and Mindy (joke) ... but all we see are innovative companies creating TIVO and other on demand recording features for your standard tv. WHO CARES.

They don't want ANYTHING to change because it's a huge money maker. Don't fix what's not broken right? Right. Now think Google. Think how many people watch tv on google and other sites. Guess what? people are using the web more than watching tv. I believe that. What happens here? this situation we're discussing here now. 2+2 = 4.

Well the same interest applies to the web. These corporate interests care less about the people earning a living on the web, want to monetize it the same way TV is monetized. Make sense to me Do I believe that? Yes. Am I naive about this specific situation? Perhaps. That's just because I'd like to learn more. I thought it would be a good way to get everyone's thoughts here on NamePros. You guys are very smart, know a lot about what's going on ... so many of you hope this doesn't happen, many of you feel this is a joke... I think we really need to get to the bottom of this and learn if it is true to false. If true, then what?

(if false, we can all go on our way - business as usual). But if true, this would effect everyone. You've been blowing your money left right and center on domains, buying and selling - all that means nothing if this kicks in.

Just a thought.

Edit - Okay sorry folks. It's reported as inacurate but it's received almost 10,000 digs. So I'm not really sure what to think.

Just an update.

 

[.jd.]

This thread scares the hell out of me..

 

[xman]

This thread scares the hell out of me..

I think that's the point.

If you have to pick a year to talk about and get attention 2012 is your best candidate.

Who needs an internet if it also predicted that the world will end in 2012?

These guys should stop buying their crystal ball in eBay.

 

[bludex]

I hope the internet will stay free. It's an experiment with open ending and it depends on the ethical qualities of the people using and building it, and the incorruptibility of the people governing it. I hope the TPMs (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module ) already in most PCs won't dictate the access to which data we can have. These cryptographic chains could be utilized also to dictate about who has access to which part/level of the internet. Maybe that's behind the talks mentioned above. And in the worst case the possession of a device without those modules could be made illegal one day.

 

[MillersCrossing]

all i can say is .....great tits......that was the most real part of the story.....nutters

 

[WGS_Thunder]

all i can say is .....great tits......that was the most real part of the story.....nutters

:bingo:

 

[Pred]

all i can say is .....great tits......that was the most real part of the story.....nutters

:sold:

 

[namedesire]

all i can say is .....great tits......that was the most real part of the story.....nutters

Ah Yes :tu:

 

[Ronald Regging]

Just so they don't start charging by the minute... I swear, our entire lives cost us by the minute. Never a moment.