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Who Pays for Rebuilding the Internet?
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?"
"Improve their network and offer us unlimited service or B) decrease speed in order to offer unlimited service. "
Bitch! Whine! Complain! I'm sitting here with the worst dial-up ISP in the history of mankind and all you all can do is complain that you can't saturate your internet connection 24/7. The fact that you have 24/7 allways ON connections is life changing enough.
"All "bandwidth bills" are going to make us do is take a huge step backwards in the form of good software."
Or maybe this generation will relearn the lesson your depression era parents had to learn. Not to be wasteful with what one has.
"If someone isn't going to pay the $3 for downloading a 700 MB ISO for Ubuntu to try it the software is no longer really "Free" and we go back to the '80s style of paying for crappy software rather then just downloading it."
Oh please! I use to buy Linux CDs from bargain basement dealers. Didn't hurt either the OSS movement, or me. Spoiled you all are.
Do you really think the government could build the internet, when neither the Census nor the FBI can even order computers?
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