“We had inside sources
from bigger companies who gave us the information on how exclusivity deals are
being made at this moment between ISPs and big content providers (like TV
production studios and major video game publishers) to decide which web sites
will be in the ‘standard package’ offered to their customers, leaving all the
rest of the Internet unreachable unless you pay extra subscription fees per
every ‘non-standard’ site you visit,” Leysen said. “We knew the source to be
100% reliable, but we also knew the story would be highly controversial if we
released the information. We did it because we knew that we’d get more official
confirmations once we’d come forward with it. And indeed that is what happened.
Dylan Pattyn, who is writing the soon-to-be published article for Time
Magazine, received confirmation from sources within BellCanada
and TELUS after we released the information.”