Rob Genovesi wrote: > I despise over regulation but it could create a large enough barrier > to entry that only serious operators would enter the market and that > might prevent race to the bottom, at least for a little while. How do you define a serious operator and who gets to set the rules?
I'd much rather have low barriers to entry and any downside that it brings. Generally speaking we need more competition, not less. A far larger long term threat than bottom of the barrel operators is market consolidation, due to the fact that the ISP business is very much a volume business where the winner can just outscale smaller players. > >> I'm sure spammers and DCMA violators will love it! > > > > How do you figure the above applies? > > That seems pretty obvious, DCMA violators will just keep jumping to > the next service provider any time their current provider is forced to > turn them off. That assumes there is an infinite supply of ISPs to chose from, which there clearly isn't. In other words, this is not a viable long term strategy, and most people are smart enough to figure that out and don't go down that road. Much easier to just use a VPN service than jumping ship every time you get a DMCA complaint. Jared
