The vast potential of broadband has so far benefited nobody as clearly as it’s benefited downloaders of pornography and pirates of digital content faster email? faster software downloading (legal, free, paid for)? faster web browsing (non pr0n)? getting your work done faster because you don’t wait for each page to download? permanent net connections simplifying your online life? have the people who make these sweeping statements (in this case peter chernin, president of news corp who own 20th century fox and fox television) ever been on the internet? pornography and piracy were prevalent when we all still dreaming about speedy 14.4k modems.

Peter Chernin decried the “enormous amount” of worthless content online. so he doesn’t have a problem with pornography, which is one of the few types of online content that people are willing to pay for, or with piracy, which is generally when things which are worth something are exchanged for nothing. neither of these is “worthless” as far as i can see.