Mark Cuban has some thoughts on the future of TV over the internet, and they aren't positive. Here's a line that will throw the net neutrality crowd into a tizzy:

But wait there’s more. You still have to pay for that bandwidth somewhere. Yes peer to peer helps save bandwidth at the originating end. But it doesnt help at the destination end. 100 peers on a network segment will still use the same amount of bandwidth on that segment as 1 destination with no peers. 10gbs of programming still has to find its way to the destination. So clogged pipes in that last mile are going to clog further as more content is delivered is delivered at higher bit rates. Which in turn mean that fewer broadband bits can be delivered at busy times to last mile users. Net Neutrality will pretty much guarantee that this is a problem forever and ever.

Beyond my worries over a net nanny coming along for the ride with network neutrality, there's the problem Cuban gets at above: regulation guaranteeing neutrality will end up freezing current technology in place. Anyone think that what we have no is "good enough"?

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