"What has the internet done for you lately", or should I say "What have you done on the internet lately"? Since the insertion of the internet into my life, I can say that my life has become somewhat easier. I can shop, make music, and take classes on the internet. But as I have come to learn in this life, when you have too much of a good thing their is always someone lurking in the shadows ready to screw it up. This is the case for indie-labels in the form of "the attack on net neutrality". Since the beginning of the internet, all sites have downloaded at the same rate depending on content and other simple things. Now some internet providers want to begin charging to have certain websites load faster than others. For the indie folks this could spell trouble. So some musicians have formed The Rock the Net campaign in order to make sure that "net neutrality" is'nt done away with. If it is, some smaller labels and musicians who cannot afford or don't want to pay to have their pages load faster could be lost in the madness. On the other side of the battlefield are coporations such as AT&T, Verizon Communications, and Comcast. You know that they are salivating at the chance to be able to charge content providers for priority web traffic. Well known artist such as R.E.M and Sarah McLachlan have joined the fight against the darkside.
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