Amaya Toman In today's installment of our tech history series, we commemorate the milestone of 10 billion downloads on iTunes. In the second part of our article, we will talk about the day when the FCC enforced net neutrality, only to cancel it again two years later.
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10 billion songs on iTunes
On February 26, 2010, Apple announced on its website that its iTunes music service had passed the milestone of ten billion downloads. The song called "Guess Things Happen That Way" by the cult American singer Johnny Cash became the jubilee song, its owner was Louie Sulcer from Woodstock, Georgia, who as the winner of the competition received an iTunes gift card worth $10.
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Approval of net neutrality (2015)
On February 16, 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved net neutrality rules. The concept of net neutrality refers to the principle of equality of data transmitted over the Internet, and is intended to prevent favoritism in terms of speed, availability and quality of Internet connection. According to the principle of net neutrality, the connection provider should treat access to a large important server in the same way as it would treat access to a server of lesser importance. The aim of net neutrality was, among other things, to ensure even smaller companies working on the basis of the Internet better competitiveness. The term net neutrality was first coined by Professor Tim Wu. The FCC's proposal to introduce net neutrality was first rejected by the court in January 2014, but after its enforcement in 2015, it did not last long - in December 2017, the FCC reconsidered its earlier decision and canceled net neutrality.
