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    <title><![CDATA[Discussion on What Congress doesn't understand about net neutrality and online video ]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[True, but..]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-10218-69608]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Many people are using the net neutrality fight to weaken IP laws.  We have raised a generation who think IP rights mean nothing once something is on the Internet.They want it free on the Internet.  It does not matter if it is a book or a movie or a picture.  They feel they are entitled to it free on the Internet.The first sentence says it all.  - -  the impact of online video on the television market - -TV show producers can no longer depend on making money from syndication because 5 minutes after a show ends it is posed by someone on Youtube.Companies have bought into putting stuff online by using paid services like Netflix, but even those are bypassed by the I WANT IT FREE people who post shows outside pay walls.That is where it gets dicey.  Youtube, for example, would need tighter tracking on who posts content if they ever hope to enforce copyright laws.Lets face it, the task is daunting.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hates Idiots]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:03:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's only natural]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-10218-69581]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[A representative democracy operates on the principle that the people who are the best at legislating will get elected to legislatures, over time.  What happens in the real world is that the people who are best at elections get elected.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[theotherwill]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:47:44 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Different issues]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-10218-69567]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[IP rights &amp; net neutrality are separate issues.  IP rights issues existed prior to the creation of the internet.  Net neutrality wouldn't be an issue if the (inter)net didn't exist.  There was a broadly similar issue with long distance service providers after AT&amp;T was broken up.  It seems so long ago.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[theotherwill]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:42:41 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Another one]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-10218-69563]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[No one's life or liberty is safe while congress is in session.Another one by Will Rogers, radio comedian from the 30's, he said that he tells jokes for a living but when congress tells a joke it becomes a law.Congress has had a bad reputation for a long time.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sboverie]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:18:22 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I heard a good one yesterday.]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-10218-69547]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[If pro means for and con means against, does that make congress the opposite of progress?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hates Idiots]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:16:16 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Great Idea]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-10218-69534]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I agree with your definition of net neutrality, it is simple and straight to the point.  The idea of separating content from connectivity sounds good although probably hard to put into place due to the way our dysfunctional congress works.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sboverie]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:06:36 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The line's already been crossed]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Unfortunately it's a bit late to separate connectivity from content completely. Congress approved the Comcast/NBCU merger. That ship has sailed.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[msilbey]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:38:14 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Bypassing copyright ...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[... was never in my definition of net neutrality.  All net neutrality means to me is that the ISP's can't favor or disfavor anything offered on the internet over something else.  What I think really needs to happen is that the providing of connectivity needs to be completely separated from the providing of content.  Then there is no possible conflict of interest.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[riverat1]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:29:54 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It is all in the definition.]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-10218-69474]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[- - Network neutrality (also net neutrality, Internet neutrality) is a principle that advocates no restrictions by Internet service providers or governments on consumers' access to networks that participate in the Internet. Specifically, network neutrality would prevent restrictions on content, sites, platforms, types of equipment that may be attached, and modes of communication. - - There is no denying that the Internet is a great tool for commerce and the exchange of ideas, but why does the internet have to be exempt from all copyright and intellectual property laws?Forget big businesses, think small.  A local reporter spends his entire life dreaming of being an author, so he writes a book on crimes he has covered.Net neutrality prevents him from bypassing the big tree kill paper publishers and going to an online publisher.  Where he can sell it as a download for your favorite e-reader.Net neutrality says anyone can buy his book and post it for free to the entire world.  You just stole that mans life work and he made only a few bucks off it from the first person that bought it.I completely agree with allowing any legal content, but theft is theft.  Even when it is just a collection of bits.  The line must be held.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hates Idiots]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:32:11 -0700</pubDate>
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