It’s year X, and the internet has just be revolutionized from the ground up. You get the blazing speed that you’ve always wanted for the price you’ve always wanted, but there’s a catch!
The catch is this: The Internet has become much like Television Broadcast. You now choose Browser Packages wherein a certain number of websites are accessible for a certain package. The websites included would be all the mainstream, well-known, most referenced websites. So if you access a website that is outside the bound of your package, (a small website that is not a part of the package), you get charged extra and it shows on your monthly bill.
Would you still go to your favorite website, if it’s not in the package? Is such a revolutionary idea for the internet even possible?
What would you do if this occurred? If you’re a website owner, and suddenly your traffic drops by 90% because no one wants to pay a premium to their ISP to visit the site, how do you safeguard your brainchild and make it a part of main stream?
ISP’s have resolved to restrict the Internet to a TV-like subscription model where users will be forced to pay to visit selected corporate websites by 2012, while others will be blocked, according to a leaked report. Despite some people dismissing the story as a hoax, the wider plan to kill the traditional Internet and replace it with a regulated and controlled Internet 2 is manifestly provable.
“Bell Canada and TELUS (formerly owned by Verizon) employees officially confirm that by 2012 ISP’s all over the globe will reduce Internet access to a TV-like subscription model, only offering access to a small standard amount of commercial sites and require extra fees for every other site you visit. These ‘other’ sites would then lose all their exposure and eventually shut down, resulting in what could be seen as the end of the Internet,” warns a reportthat has spread like wildfire across the web over the last few days.
The article, which is accompanied by a You Tube clip, states that Time Magazine writer “Dylan Pattyn” has confirmed the information and is about to release a story - and that the move to effectively shut down the web could come as soon as 2010.