This is bad because the Telcos aren't getting their fingers on this slice of the pie?

Come on Jim, this has been covered a thousand times before.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060530/1055221.shtml

Akamai and others like that are an entirely different sort of deal. They're still about end-to-end connectivity. It's about the producer of the content or service speeding up delivery for everyone -- not just those who are customers of a specific ISP. It doesn't set up different tiers for different people, but speeds up the connectivity for everyone.

Do you really not know that or are you just pretending to be unable to understand the difference? Either way, it again raises questions about how you view things. Either you don't do your homework, or you pretend not to understand a very basic difference. Neither is particularly flattering.

Masnick, tell us exactly how your distinction is disregarded by JDelong. I think you're reading the analogy to net neutrality too closely.

Sheeesh. All of these kids, they try to introduce a distinction just to argue for the sake of arguing, and then go off on a rant where that distinction is not even significant.