** Private ** wrote: > The US is moving backward in internet usage. In Europe 15MB/s > connections seem to be becoming the norm in places such as Belgium, > and it's filtering quickly throughout developed europe.
Belgium is the wrong example, the internet market there is strangled by the incumbents who may be offering a high speed connection (20 Mbit/s), but make you pay $100 per month for that and give you a 35 GB traffic limit. In the Netherlands on the other hand a 20 Mbit/s DSL line will cost you $30 without any data limits. > Maybe I miss it but I don't see the major ISPs in Europe going out of > business offering flat rate unlimited bandwidth with video streaming They are. The only ISPs that are surviving are vertically integrated with telco's. The independent ISP is dead in Europe. > In fact the P2P problem might be worse since in some countries it's legal! P2P as a technology is just as legal in the US as it is in the EU. If you are referring to copyright legislation the EU is different from the US in that in most countries copyright legislation does not discriminate against certain technical methods. Hence making sure that all license fees are paid is the responsibility of the sender of the information, not of the recipient. Just like with radio: the station pays the copyright holder, not the listener. This basically translated to "downloading good, uploading bad" and if you know how to to download without uploading you are staying within the boundaries of the law. I 'fixed' my software and legally all I have to worry about is to wipe the downloaded files of my notebook before I travel :) Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:251251 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
