The only ISPs that are "screwing" their customers in this case are the ones in the US. The rest of the world doesn't seem to have an issue with Net(flix) Neutrality, and it's most likely because they have the infrastructure to handle it. The US Government gave the LECs money to do exactly that years ago; build out infrastructure. $200 fucking billion to be exact. That money was squandered and paid out in executive bonuses instead (as if we should be shocked).

US-based ISPs want to charge per content because they have rich internet addicts as customers who are apathetic and ignorant of how this works in the rest of the world. If US customers refused to put up with that, or remembered they paid for it already, ISPs would be forced to accomodate. Addicts don't tend to give up easily. Arrogant monopolies know this. That is why they are arrogant.

And torrents? Please. ISPs could have used that terrorist excuse years ago to get those quashed. They spent their time instead getting in bed with the MAFIAA and attacking their customers in a different, more profitable way.

Sorry, but given their history, It shouldn't take a Netflix to make them finally get off the shitter. They still owe us for the infrastructure that would make this issue go away. Now, this "issue" is seen as nothing more than another revenue stream, which ISPs will latch onto like a blood-sucking leech with the tenacity of a pit bull and not let go until they have it.

sigh, you do realize the human mind does not require religion in order to survive, right? Faith practiced peacefully and individually is not the issue. Organized Religion being used and abused to manipulate the masses into doing anything you want, is. Entire countries are ran with massive religious influence, with leaders placed in their positions because of their religious beliefs, so let's not even pretend I'm being delusional here.

Personal gain? The worlds top preachers, who are not considered "extremists", make seven figures. Tell me something, is it considered irony or blasphemy listening to them preach about how greed is sinful? Hell of a way to lead by example there.

Oh, and the convenient twist? Yeah, that would be the tax exemption that doesn't even allow us to see the greed going on within religion.

Uh, their bottom line? Have you not noticed that these companies are making not millions, but billions these days? You're going to get customers to leave in "droves"? Oh, that's a laugh. There's still "droves" of customers left. Think they care? No, not really. They still made a few hundred million this quarter.

Arrogance is the real problem with the companies that should have never been allowed to grow to the size they are today. We don't call them a monopoly because we're big fans of old board games. Threaten to leave? Meh, means nothing to them. They've bought and sold more customers than you could ever dream of amassing.

Go ahead. Try it. Then sit back and watch them laugh at your failed attempts to manipulate one of the most powerful entities on the planet.

Uh, because they "can" is not exactly the reason.

The only reason they "can" is because people are willing to pay it. At the end of the day, it is still a business that relies on revenue from customers.

And from the US perspective, we might as well re-label this argument Netflix Neutrality, since that's all I keep hearing and seeing out of every argument related to this. Apparently there are two kinds of data streams left in the world. Netflix, and all the other shit.

There are also two kinds of ISPs left in the world too. The greedy asshats running the ones in the US, and everyone else.

Well way solution, film your neighbour while the lawnmower is stopped. That way he will be able to hear you and you will no longer be filming without his knowledge. The whole notion of something happening without knowledge would seem ridiculous to anyone who's down in a residential area and then dealt with upset barking dogs and people coming out to see what the loud buzzing noise is.

In most countries privacy is a moving scale. Yes you can take a photo from your back deck, no you can not take a photo from your backyard standing on tiptoes holding a camera above your head. In your case they've made no attempt to block you, and likewise you've made no attempt to circumvent any of their attempts.

They're assholes on the turnpike though, they'll sometimes do the strict enforcing they're permitted to in the 65 zone, and pull over everybody.

Exactly,
There is a lot of internet tout that Europeans somehow do things that much better then the US, is actually a lot of BS. They just have a different set of problems that the US does.

Germany probably just made the biggest fuss about it, just because they could, and distract their public from their own problems. We do the same in the US.

Or, according to TFA, it's true.

Unsurprising, when you are ruled by lawyers. Poking around demographics on Congress, we find about 40% of members with a law degree (over 50% in the Senate). In contrast, only 2% of them are scientists or engineers...

You don't pay taxes?

It isn't free, it is just that your money that you are paying is being placed in an other category.

Ironically, a $150,000 heart surgery is low price compared to the million dollars your insurance company will be billed.

You might also have a hard time pointing the finger at the real crooks here.

Blocking access to "all cloud storage providers" will likely cripple actual functionality the business is looking for now or in the future. On top of that, I don't know of many who do this. Hell, the CIA has their own cloud on AWS, so it's a bit funny to think the government would be asking their customers/partners/vendors to stay away.

And with the way data is shifting to cloud hosting solutions, at some point in the near future, it will become impossible to block the "cloud", as it will become part of the very fabric of the internet.

It would be easier to simply create air-gapped systems that serve specific purposes rather than try to tame the wild west of the internet to be nice to your sensitive systems. At some point we will learn that certain systems do not belong on the internet, no matter how secure we think the connection is to them.

You do not work in health care do you.

So when you get registered at the Hospital. Your data will electronically get sent to the Electronic Medical Record system, which then will be sent to the Lab Systems, and back, Then all this data gets fed into a billing system which then needs to electronically send this data to the insurance company to be billed. Now we also new regulations called Meaningful Use, and one of them is the ability to Send Electronic Medical Data to the Patient in less then 72 hours of the request. To meet this requirement most places have setup a Patient Portal, where the Patient can Login via the Web and get their access.

For proper treating of patients the data needs to get sent to professionals who needs it, they may be in different locations around the world.

So the government is telling Health Care industries to lock down PHI and make it more Open at the same time.