div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"a target="_blank" href="http://www.nemertes.com/"Nemertes Research/a continued to throw cold water on the future of the Internet this week, releasing a study projecting that demand for bandwidth on the Web would exceed its capacity by 2012./pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The study, which is a follow-up to a target="_blank" href="http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2007/111907johnson.html"similar research/a Nemertes conducted last year, projects that the current global economic recession will only delay rather than eliminate the increased demand for bandwidth the firm predicted last year. Then, Nemertes projected that traffic growth would eclipse supply by 2010, but the firm now says it has adjusted its projections to reflect deteriorating global economic conditions./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"b[ Does the#160;a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/11/46FE-broadband-limits_1.html"bandwidth shortage mean out Internet future is in danger/a? ]/b/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Nemertes emphasized it is not projecting that the Internet will crash or shut down altogether. Rather, the typical user probably will experience Internet quot;brownouts,quot; where such high-bandwidth applications as high-definition video-streaming and peer-to-peer file-sharing will stop performing up to users#39; expectations, the firm says.#160;/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"During a presentation at an Internet Innovation Alliance symposium this week, Nemertes analyst Mike Jude a target="_blank" href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/111908-alliance-national-broadband.html"said/a that one consequence of declining Web performance would be that users would look less to the Internet to deliver their desired applications. quot;More and more applications are coming online that will drive expectations for service quality even higher,quot; he said. quot;I#39;m not saying that the Internet is going to crash in 2011, but that people#39;s expectations are going to be throttled. People will stop going to the Internet for those services.quot;/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"One big reason for the projected growth in traffic is the continuing emergence of virtual workers who work from home or in remote branch offices located far away from companies#39; central offices, Nemertes says. In particular, these remote workers quot;expect seamless communications, regardless of where they conduct businessquot; and they quot;often require more advanced communication and collaboration tools than those who work at headquarters,quot; including videoconferencing and Web conferencing, the report says./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Another factor is simply the large growth in high-bandwidth applications for users to employ. More ISPs in the coming years will follow the lead of such companies as a target="_blank" href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/082908-critics-question-comcast-broadband.html"Comcast/a and a target="_blank" href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/110408-att-trialing-dsl-bandwidth.html"ATamp;T/a trying out bandwidth caps that will charge extra money each month for heavy bandwidth consumers, Nemertes says. Although#160;a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/29/Comcast_sets_monthly_bandwidth_limit_for_customers_1.html"Comcast now caps individual bandwidth consumption at a relatively high 250GB per month/a, average future users will easily reach or surpass that bandwidth limit as they find higher-bandwidth applications to use, the firm says./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;Though this traffic load is [currently] more than typical, it certainly isn#39;t exceptional,quot; Nemertes reports. quot;This type of usage will become typical over the next three to five years. The fact that Comcast#39;s network is, by its own admission, not able to cope with such usage patterns is a clear indication that the crunch we predicted last year is beginning to occur.quot;/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Looking forward, Nemertes says that if this capacity issue is not addressed, the Internet will fracture into a tiered system where companies with the most money will pay for specialized network infrastructure that will ensure their content is delivered at higher speeds than non-favored content./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"This fractured system -- where certain entities can pay extra money to give their content favored treatment -- is what advocates of a target="_blank" href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/092208-politicians-push-for-net-neutrality.html"network neutrality/a have been working to avoid by preventing ISPs from discriminating against certain types of content. The Nemertes report gloomily concludes that although the Internet will not shut down entirely, it will experience a dramatic slowdown in innovation because quot;new content and application providers will be handicapped by the relatively poorer performance of their offerings vis-#224;-vis those created by the established players.quot;/p/divbr style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=6f133e36fa7698c33d630eb489aa4407p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=6f133e36fa7698c33d630eb489aa4407p=1//a img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=6f133e36fa7698c33d630eb489aa4407 style=display: none; border=0 height=1 width=1 alt=/

Remember the MySpace suicide in 2007?
http://a.abcnews.com/TheLaw/Story?id=3946124&page=1
Quote: Prosecutors said they would not file charges against the people who used the Internet to send bullying messages to a 13-year-old Minnesota girl shortly before she killed herself. Now, news is breaking of a Justin.tv, live video suicide.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Min...6306126&page=1
Quote: A Florida teenager who used a webcam to live-stream his suicide Wednesday was reportedly encouraged by other people on the Web site, authorities told ABCNews.com. Quote: "People were egging him on and saying things like 'go ahead and do it, faggot,' said Wendy Crane, an investigator at the Broward County Medical Examiner's office.

Abraham Biggs, 19, of Pembroke Pines, Fla., had been blogging on an online body-building message board and had linked to his page on Justin.tv, a live video streaming Web site, where the camera rolled as he overdosed on prescription pills, according to Crane.

Biggs, who had reportedly been discussing his suicide on the forums, also posted a suicide note on a body-building forum, which has since been taken down, in which he wrote, "I hate myself and I hate living." Just awful. Overdose of prescription medication.
Quote: "The bloggers said that Biggs had threatened to kill himself before and had faked it, so at first they didn't believe him," said Crane. "Gradually, as you read the blog further into the day the bloggers start commenting on how Biggs isn't moving."

Crane said comments on the thread included an exchange about whether the image of Biggs' motionless body was a still photograph or a video, and eventually resulted in one of the site's visitors calling the police, who tracked down the teen through his computer IP address. Not ONLY is this terrible for his family, I wonder how services like Justin.tv can respond to these types of challenges, so as to make sure these types of incidents are discouraged and help is sent by community members that are clearly watching things unfold in realtime. Next time, it could be a gun suicide, or worst, a murder. I'm not sure how you deal with realtime issues like these. Youtube has been looking at realtime broadcasts for webcams, from what I've heard. In an era of wardrobe malfunctions and mental disease, I'm not sure how you approach the quickly evolving idea of the "filter".

Quote: Michael Seibel, the CEO of Justin.tv, posted a blog entry on the site titled "A Moment of Silence."

"Justin.tv staff would like to take a moment to recognize and reflect upon the tragedy that occurred within our community today," wrote Seibel. "We respect the privacy of the broadcaster and his family during this challenging time." ~ CB
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A Florida teenager who used a webcam to live-stream his suicide Wednesday was reportedly encouraged by other people on the Web site, authorities told ABCNews.com. nbsp; nbsp; quot;People were egging him on and saying things like 'go ahead and do it, faggot,' said Wendy Crane, an investigator at the Broward County Medical Examiner's office. nbsp; nbsp; Abraham Biggs, 19, of Pembroke Pines, Fla., had been blogging on an online body-building message board and had linked to his page on Justin.tv, a live video streaming Web site, where the camera rolled as he overdosed on prescription pills, according to Crane. nbsp; nbsp; Biggs, who had reportedly been discussing his suicide on the forums, also posted a suicide note on a body-building forum, which has since been taken down, in which he wrote, quot;I hate myself and I hate living...quot; nbsp; nbsp; In the Web stream, Crane said viewers saw a piece of a door frame -- which had splintered from the police kicking in the teen's bedroom door -- hit Biggs, who is curled up on his bed and facing away from the camera. nbsp; nbsp; quot;Then you see a police officer go in and check on him, and then the EMS pronounced him dead,quot; said Crane... nbsp; nbsp; [cc: the wired]

This all happened at www.bodybuilding.com in the Misc. forums. This kid said he was going tom commit suicide on the live video streaming website Justin.tv and the site's viewers encouraged him do it. People called bullshit, they were sadly mistaken. I watched the Livecam and saw the kid laying there, wasn't sure what to think. Later on the livecam (after people on the forum started to worry and called his local police) the police came in examined the body and covered the webcam. Quite creepy.

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