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Behind the Cogent-Sprint Depeering
An anonymous reader brings an update to Sprint's depeering with Cogent, which we discussed a few days back — namely, Sprint's side of the story. According to them, no free peering contract had ever existed, Cogent refused to pay the bills to exchange traffic, and after a year Sprint gave Cogent 30 days notice of their intent to disconnect. During this 30-day period, when one or two connections (out of ten) per week were shut down, Cogent made no alternate arrangements to alleviate the impact on their customers — but they had a press release ready when Sprint snipped the final wire. It will be interesting to see how Cogent responds.
Private fire departments (that do exist) will take your check on the spot and put out the fire. If the owners refuse to pay up, the private fire companies will go through the property to ensure nobody is trapped inside the building and act exactly like we do with wildfires in the woods, they'll make a fireline and stop the spread of the fire beyond the property line of the property owner that won't pay to save their own building when it's burning down.
It's a reasonable way to ensure that the stupid get what's coming to them without endangering innocents. So what's the problem?