Comment Re:Captive? (Score 1) 185
My read of it is slightly more favorable, though still not good. There are marketing firms which specifically target college students. I'm sure that as a property management firm which also targets college students they already have contacts with the marketing firms. It sounds to me like they want to sell ad space to said firms, who would then resell it to their advertisers. The ads would probably be injected by hijacking DNS requests and using transparent HTTP proxies, not unlike what some hotels and "free" wi-fi hotspots do. My guess is that they don't plan to give preferred or degraded bandwidth to any actual content provider (unless you count rival advertisers as "content providers"). As such it's not a net-neutrality issue per se, just another scumbag trying to capitalize on a captive audience.
It's amusing to me that just a couple stories before this is the one about OpenDNS phasing out Guide, which is a similar advertising grab. Maybe you can point to the OpenDNS article as an example of a provider dropping that revenue model because it pissed off the users too much.