While the word isn’t fully out yet, some in Hollywood are taking note of network neutrality. If you don’t know what net neutrality is, it basically means no one would be able to control the internet. ‘Evil companies’ are currently pushing federal rules to be able to control what you are allowed to do on the internet. If your internet company would make a deal with a film company, the film company could get priority over this website. And they could slow down your access to this page. Or for example stop you from sharing movies, legal or illegal.

As you might expect, the Motion Picture Association of America would like companies to be able to do this, so they could stop piracy. They say net neutrality will cause them to lose the tools to stop piracy. Others in the industry favor net neutrality, out of fear it would affect independent film making. People use tools like BitTorrent for illegal downloading, but more and more it’s used for legal movie distribution too.

The problem at the moment, I think, is awareness. If Hollywood really gets into this, it might be another artists vs. the studios story. With the artists seeking total freedom and the studios doing what will make them the most money, which is probably regulating and controlling the internet.