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Who Pays for Rebuilding the Internet?

Posted by samzenpus on from the anyone-but-me dept.

pcause writes "The Internet (physical as opposed to technical) was really not designed for applications that want to use maximum bandwidth all of the time, such as P2P and streaming video. Here in the US we've seen Comcast try to balance the demands of P2P traffic with other traffic and its backbone capacity. In the UK, a flame war has broken out between the BBC and ISPs about the same issue. So the question is who pays? Should the content owners who make the profits pay for the extra infrastructure, or should the consumer pay?"

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  1. I will. by tverbeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here, I'll pay for it. Whom do I make the check out to?

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  2. Re:Duh - we all do-complain. by RandomUsername99 · · Score: 2, Funny

    And back in my day, we didn't have weekends! And we loved it! And by the way, get off my damn lawn! I just seeded!

  3. Re:Duh - we all do. by emjay88 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If someone isn't going to pay the $3 for downloading a 700 MB ISO for Ubuntu... ...we go back to the '80s style of paying for crappy software rather then just downloading it.
    +5: Implication that Ubuntu is crappy software
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  4. How about we do this? by Orion+Blastar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Put a tax on spam emails, and popup advertising? Then use that tax to pay for the new Internet.

    Also charge the spyware and adware companies fees for infecting a majority of the Internet and affecting bandwidth, and use those fees to pay for the new Internet.

    My plan is to get the money from companies and people that abuse the Internet via taxes or fees and use that to build the new faster Internet.

    Maybe it will cut down on spam, adware, spyware, and popup ads? Just a thought.

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  5. Re:But that does not pay the bills by Basehart · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lets face it, only Earth people get to use the internet so it won't be getting bogged down anytime soon. It's when aliens start tapping into it that we're screwed.

  6. Re:Duh - we all do-complain. by gaderael · · Score: 3, Funny

    And by the way, get off my damn lawn! I just seeded! Um, ewww....
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  7. Re:Duh - we all do. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And if it is, are you even not making sense anymore?

    Or if it does, did the article read anyway?