At 11:20 PM 10/26/02, Doug wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
On
This 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).
What about cable TV? They don't charge by how much of a couch potato you are.
I'm not trying to be a wise guy, just wondering what the difference is.
But they do charge extra for so-called "premium" services, such as HBO . . .
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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