20101223 What is Net Neutrality?

Wow, it's been a while since I wrote anything here. I hadn't forgotten, just really not had much to say... better a few quality posts than a lot of boring ones. That said, I'll try to post more than once every three months at least...

There's been a lot of buzz about how we should be fighting to save Net Neutrality and the free, open Internet, but little explanation of what that actually means. Here's my attempt at a hopefully simple explanation:

20100728 Same Shit, Different DRM

So today's latest DRM scheme is storing your media in "the cloud". That article is mainly bashing, so let's first look at some of the theoretical advantages of such a system.

• No need to make backups.
• Access it from anywhere.
• Rental and samples become feasible.
• Files aren't taking up your disk space.

Now to destroy those arguments: