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The Internet revolution is about a lot of things, not the least of which is video. The changing landscape of how we view video has the old guard nervous, the providers of broadband services trying to profit from it and everyday folks competing with big movie studios in creating and delivering content.
Change inevitably brings conflict. The biggest Internet controversy these days is over "Net neutrality," also referred to using the more technical term "packet prioritization," though the meanings are opposite. With Net neutrality, all packets of data are treated equally, none given priority over another, regardless of whether the originator is Disney putting out trailers for its latest blockbuster or your dizzy neighbor putting out home-spun footage of his latest skateboarding …