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Speculation or not but the topic does get you thinking! Apparently by 2012 ISP’s will reduce Internet access to a tv like subscription model, offering access to a small amount of news, entertainment websites. To visit other based websites, say third party (your bookmarks) an extra fee will be introduced for the privilege. The result would mean the smaller websites would eventually shut down, creating the end of the internet? Hmm lets look into this!

Advantages (if any)

Content, limited channels
Content is restricted to official websites, content is then guaranteed to be 100% safe and 100% correct. The down side would be the need to pay for the services, squashing competition which in my opinion is completely the opposite of how the Internet should be. thats about it

Disadvantages

Hackz0rs
Hackers R’ Us! I’m sure it wont take long before someone or something breaks the model and allows users to have pirate access to these websites or website that are not even on the Internet.

A new breed
Whats stopping programmers creating their very own protocol and port which allows websites to be viewed differently to how ISP’s allow you to! Could there be multiple Internets running on different communication methods/ ports.

World Wide!
This would need to be a world wide affair, whats happens when the US decide to limit their population to certain websites, does that mean in another country I could visit the so called normal Internet? Would capping the internet to tens of sites be a breach of privacy or the United Kingdoms right of free speach?

An interesting topic but will all those webmasters out there be wasting their time optimising for the likes of google, yahoo etc. Will google even exist? If so how will their services and tools be used? Untill next time, goodbye

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