Net Neutrality Naughty?

Hollywood studios are taking a position on net neutrality -- theprinciple that ISPs should not discriminate against small users when providingnetwork bandwidth -- and they're against it. In

The argument in favor of net neutrality, let's remember, isthat it enables new websites -- potential new businesses -- the opportunity to innovate,and possibly become the next Google. That's one way of maintaining thelevel playing field that has enabled the Internet's phenomenal growth. Net neutrality also maintains the net's role as history's most dramatic bastionof free speech and citizen access to (virtual) printing presses.

Glickman's remarks, in my opinion, are just one recentattack on non-MSM (mainstream media) websites. The other was a judge's

A related threat, though, is that telco and cable co. investmentin last-mile infrastructure to homes and businesses is

The MPAA, by the way, is the movie industry tradeassociation that takes positions on public policy issues, as well as issuesmovie ratings. It's not to be confused with the AMPTP, which negotiatesHollywood labor contracts such as the recently concluded writers and directorsdeals, or with AMPAS (the movie Academy), which awards the Oscars, or, for thatmatter, with ATAS (the TV Academy), which awards the primetime Emmys. Hollywood's not only a jungle, it's an alphabet soup.