On 11/8/05, Rick DeNatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There have been some disturbances in the force* lately with big ISPs > starting to talk like RIAA and MPAA thinking that they have an > overreaching right to control the folks who use "their" internet. > > One aspect of this is trying to grab control of services like VOIP on > "their" networks. > > I can't recall who, but one of the heads of a large ISP was recently > making public statements about trying to get businesses like google to > pay them for the bandwidth.
It was the head of SBC Global, which iirc is buying AT&T (and changing their name to AT&T maybe?!?) Anyway, if they do that, they open a whole host of worms because they lose common carrier status (and are therefore liable for *everything* that crosses the network) and their customers will just go elsewhere for access. Cheers, Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace clubjuggler at gmail dot com http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ (fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an increscent, all sable. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
