Erik Reuter wrote:
What about cable TV? They don't charge by how much of a couch potato you are.OnThis is a GOOD thing. Bandwidth costs money to provide, and is a limited resource. It makes perfect sense to charge based on how much bandwidth is used, that is how a free market works. If you try to suppress the law of supply and demand, you get shortages and outages, much like what happened with power in California. This essay is misguided, and the comparison to the airwaves is false (cables and routers cost money to install and maintain, unlike "airwaves" which could be used in peer-to-peer fashion without any expense by a 3rd party).
I'm not trying to be a wise guy, just wondering what the difference is.
Doug
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