Ask About Setting Up a Community ISP

The Ruby Ranch Internet Cooperative (RRIC) is one of the best-known member-owned ISPs around. It provides DSL service to the Ruby Ranch neighborhood in Summit County, Colorado. Carl Oppedahl, the RRIC "main man," has agreed to answer Slashdot questions about the possibilities and pitfalls of setting up something similar in other areas. Please read the RRIC FAQs before posting a question so that you don't ask something Carl has already answered a million times. Otherwise, the usual Slashdot interview rules apply: One question per post, we'll email Carl 10 of the highest-moderated questions, and post his answers as soon as he gets them back to us.

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Let me ask it THIS way....

[NDPTAL85]

What you really mean is, you got broadband so you could pass on the cost of your most likely heavy usage of Intellectual Propertry infringement software onto your ISP instead of at least paying for conducting your own illegal activities yourself?

Of course, this being Slashdot you'll probably reply that "Information wants to be free" at which point I would most likly respond, "Information isn't an animal. It can't want anything. It isn't alive nor does it have any conciousness. And if we're going down that route, then Rent wants to be Paid! Lexus's want to be bought....etc"

I apologize in advance if you have legitimate legal uses for P2P software.