The Next Phase of the Internet

This moment in time represents a true golden age of the Internet but such ages are always thwarted in one way of another.
For close to 10 years I've been saying that at some point in the future, the Wild West of the Internet will be clamped down and you'll need a license to broadcast content over the Internet. I do not see any trend that does not point in this direction.
For a perfect example, look at the debate over net neutrality and filtering or throttling streaming content from the likes of Netflix and Amazon over various mechanisms such as your PC or Roku.






The FCC knows that the future of radio and television is going to have a major Internet component for distribution. It wants to protect its turf by getting more and more involved in the Internet as if the Web is part of the overall broadcast spectrum—which it is not, in general.




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