5 ISP'S to kill off Free WIFI

[dennydem40z]

Well this is great, President Obama and his NEW Six Strike internet law is going to make it harder for people at places that offer FREE WIFI like McDonalds and other places to get out the Ron Paul message. Please read this link, apparently ISP's don't care if small businesses lose there FREE WIFI service. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130111/16325521645/details-various-six-strikes-plans-revealed-may-create-serious-problems-free-wifi.shtml

Another attack of the small business owner and the Free Market. Please sign this petition and Facebook and Twitter this to Ron Paul Followers and tell your Twiiter and Facebook fans to do the same:

http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/2278?n=12592915.OwnZ__

Remember these are 5 ISP's (COMCAST, CABLEVISION, VERIZON, AT&T AND TIME WARNER) trying to attack small businesses by putting them in jeopardy of offering Free WIFI Service to there customers. Don't let them get away with this. Please sign the petition. If you can DROP THESE 5 ISP'S THANKS.

[CPUd]

LOL, you just listed the 5 dirtiest ISPs out there.

If the local McD loses its free wifi service and the BK across the street is good with another ISP, you can bet McD will get a new ISP.

[The Goat]

Wonder what the dumb asses will do when people drop their service for one that doesn't do this? ISP's can't even control the internet and the government thinks it can. LMAO

[Tpoints]

Well this is great, President Obama and his NEW Six Strike internet law is going to make it harder for people at places that offer FREE WIFI

Not really an Obama law, it's a copyright enforcment mechanism. Free wifi can still be offered, they'll just have to make it harder for users to circumvent copyright protection and/or abuse free wifi for copyright infringement or criminal purposes, which is really the point of any law, and any free service.

What this rant really is about is, you are upset that you can no longer go to McDonald's to pirate stuff and not get caught. And/or places that are happy to offer free wifi, will not risk their own facilities and services for troublemakers. If there were nobody abusing the resource, it wouldn't even come up. I suspect this issue will go away quickly, free wifi can require users to submit a credit card, facebook login, or whatever means of identifying the user, so that IF there are trouble makers, either for spam, copyright violation or other criminal purposes, they can ID and catch the person, leaving the rest of the innocent users free to use the service.

It's not a problem of "free" wifi, it's the inherent problem with unmonitored, anonymous internet usage. And no, it's not a right, it's a free service busineses offered, and they're happy to continue doing it if they can't be held liable or know there won't be people using them as a haven for crime.

[Tpoints]

If you can DROP THESE 5 ISP'S THANKS.


they together make up....90% of the broadband market?