If you follow Sever Purkiss you’ll know he’s not a fan of Virgin Media at all, often linking to this well done video opposing Virgins “Ballocks” attitude toward new neutrality. As a result I’ve been linking to the video as well from several of my sites.

For the vast majority of my readers I know you don’t have Virgin as one of your broadband options, but this is about a bigger picture. Net neutrality. Essentially we are looking to keep the internet as an open access venue. A place where we all have an equal opportunity to have our message heard. As stated in the video, the internet could easily turn into another Television channel, much like how cable TV / Satellite simply turned into a monetized version of over-the-air broadcasting.

I’m very concerned because I see a pattern over and over where people, specifically net citizens.. get all excited for a cause and if it doesn’t immediately effect them or if another cause comes their way that they think everyone else is supporting they simply forget and move on. I’ve recently seen this on my ea-land.com fan website. Everyone was up in arms, then they learned to live with the consequences.

It would be a true shame to see this happen to our Internet.

Okay, maybe FTPing this 5G file wasn’t such a good idea after all.  It’s been 8 hours so far.  If I have to do this with any regularity it’s going to be time for a fat pipe soon.  Thank gawd for remote logins.