Re:Streaming media is what's ruining the internet. (Score 2)

You elitist Luddite. Thank you so much for your little "History of the Internet" lesson - no sh*t! And you're a little off - I do believe there was a lot of large file-sharing going on between Universities and other big institutions, as well. So it was a lot more than plain ol' ASCII. You're probably one of those people that pride themselves on an extensive memory of DOS commands.

The 'Net is not going to die. It is all driven by money, demand, profit, etc., now. If streaming multimedia and porn-heads demand this kind of content, then "supply" and the money needed will simply re-arrange to meet the demand.

Nobody is going to "not let anyone in" on their Internet. The 'Net-II is not being built to exclude media files and streams. How do you come up with these arrogant insights? The 'Net is simply "pay-to-play" now. That it would not be a nearly free-ride forever, was pretty darned easy to predict. But it would seem that you're the only person that "gets it".

I agree with you that (porn or "my_puppy_cam.com") is a waste of such a grand societal connector as the 'Net, but the 'Net can be many things to many people. I don't use it for porn, but if you want to, then I won't whine about how you're f'ing it up for me. The 'Net will sort itself out just fine, with the heaviest bandwidth users paying the most. And the ultimate goal, I think, is to make the cost of bandwidth practically negligible. "Fiber everywhere" is just around the corner.

I think streaming the audio from a church service is a perfectly acceptable and noble use. The person asking us exactly how to do it, will no doubt find that he will have to pay for the outgoing flood of data that he wants to send. He won't get a free ride at your expense. The guy was looking for advice, in a forum that he trusts. You're a wanker to whine about how he should only be using the 'Net for text files. Go back to your DOS prompt!