I have no idea, nor do I care. I just did a quick google and they were saying what common sense already told me. there are tons of other commentators also making the connection between the caps, the rise of netflix and the telcos own competing streaming video services. http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/...roadband-caps/

besides, freepers are hardly in favor of net neutrality. the free-market approach would be to let the telcos create the tiered internet they desire.

I know it's popular on the piracy forum to imagine all sorts of evil tech company conspiracies but I'm having trouble picturing what sort of freeper/anti-telco/pro-net-neutrality alliance you're seeing here.

Why NZ isn't getting Netflix any time soon:

Netflix | NZ internet a 'deterrent' to online TV | Stuff.co.nz

Netflix changing TV viewing habits | Stuff.co.nz
(Disclaimer - I work for Alcatel-Lucent)

... but I can get Netflix if I want it. Proof that proxy services will make it easy for even "non-technical" infringers:

Unblock Us - unblock your favourite video and social websites

That last one was a surprise. I used the site search box on the Stuff news website to find the above two stories. The unblock-us site was the top hit on the results list.

According to the story linked below, one NZ ISP experiences speed drops of up to 25%. The ISP I use experiences drops of up to 15% (seems about right in my experience.) The rest seem to be almost unaffected.

Study shows drop in peak-time internet speeds | Stuff.co.nz

Predictably, there was a rebuttal:

NZ internet speeds 'rather good', companies claim | Stuff.co.nz

And then came this, for my ISP:
Unlimited internet deal may backfire | Stuff.co.nz

I'm typing this in the middle of the mentioned weekend. Speed doesn't seem to be affected. My daughter has been watching Pokemon episodes all day and says hasn't noticed any difference.

Says who? Do you have a citation for this? Any proof?

And how would you demonstrate a proxy was doing something like that?

Once again, you are clearly clueless when it comes to how savvy kids are with computers today. This isn't brain surgery. These kids won't have to be geeks, nerds, or hackers to steal music if this bill, as written, is passed.

And nothing in this bill will stop it from continuing to be a no-brainer.

It isn't my job to write the laws. It's Congress'. And they had better do a better job writing this one or nothing is going to change.

We're not getting any more piracy legislation after this.

who knows how accurate this is, but we have to see the next draft of the bill...
SOPA on the ropes? Bipartisan alternative to 'Net censorship emerges

we'll what we get, but thus far looks like any redraft will do little for music piracy. what I don't understand is if we can already do this...

Digital Music News - What SOPA Debate? The Department of Justice Just Seized 130 Domains...

why do we still have the pirate bay accessible from within the USA? do all the seized domains originate from within the USA?

I believe either one or more owner and/or the server has to be based from the US. If there's anything there that extends beyond that, it would have to be from a Bernes obiding country.

All the seized domains use TLDs that originate from the US.

ICE could take out the piratebay.org, but they would just be up a few seconds later at piratebay.lv or something similar.

Which is the idea behind SOPA/PIPA, to block them from coming into the US.

Of course, when all you have to do is type in "foreign proxy" in Google, and then whatever your favorite pirate site happens to be, the entire exercise of blocking domains becomes pointless.

The start with let's just remove that phrase "net neutrality" from the conversation because it's meaningless.

Or two be more precise, it has two diametrically opposed meanings depending on who's using it - the telcos mean the exact opposite when the use it than the "internet freedom" advocates.

I think the main point of this bill is just to make piracy less accesible to the average person by targeting the source, which IMO is a good thing. Sure it probably has flaws, and will have revisions before it is passed so skepticism isn't necessarily a bad thing either. Kids are more tech savvy these days, but the average kid still isn't a hacker or a programmer. Cutting off the source is really the only way to start taking action, otherwise you're just looking for after-the-fact compensation because you couldn't stop it in the first place... and if you can't stop it, it's only a matter of time before you won't get any compensation for it either.