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nnfiber writes "What if home owners could also own their Internet connection? Tim Wu, of New America Foundation and Derek Slater, Google's Policy Analyst, say this can be a new effective way to encourage broadband deployment — an important issue in 'America's economic growth.' In his post, Timothy B. Lee says: 'That might sound like a crazy idea at first blush, but Wu and Slater do a great job of explaining how it might work. The key idea is "condominium fiber," an arrangement in which a number of neighboring households pool their resources to install fiber to all the homes in their neighborhoods. Once constructed, each home would own its own fiber strand, while the shared costs of maintaining the "trunk" cable from the individual homes to a central switching location would be managed in the same way that condominium and homeowners' associations currently manage the shared areas of condos and gated communities.'"
I'd be more worried about the clueless moron who sets up an unsecured wireless router in his unit, so the neighbor across the street can download his child porn. Then, since it will all likely be behind a firewall of some sort with a single public IP address, the FBI will be kicking in everyone's doors looking for the perv.
At least as likely is one of the neighbors setting up a spam operation, and getting everyone cut off for spamming (because, again, it'll all be on a single IP address).
The whole market driven economic system is collapsing, all around the world. It's finally becoming apparent that it was never an efficient or effective system, and that any perceptions of efficiency and effectiveness came from a surplus of working adults with no dependent children to distract them from being industrious.
Each week, hundreds of billions of dollars are printed and distributed to a select few individuals. Which means each week, any particular dollar is worth far less than it was the week before. Ownership of stock has proven to be worthless, because all the large businesses that participate in the stock exchanges are bankrupt and worthless, unless they get a bailout, in which case your share of them is devalued to the point of insignificance.
This system doesn't work.
So, why would anyone in their right mind think that moving responsibility for communications infrastructure to individuals and market forces is going to do anything beyond cause the collapse of modern communications?
You privatize common infrastructure, its utility is underutilized, then it is destroyed. Pretty cut and dried.
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It gets tricky when problems occure. Everything is simple when things are going well. But the second some idiot with a back hoe cuts through your cable, then what? Or your routers get hacked because, hey, you're just a guy doing it on your own, not a professional being paid. Then there's making sure all 100 people pay. Even when their house is in foreclosure. Or after they die, dealing with the estate's poorly done finances. Or simply when some new guy buys the house not udnerstanding what he is getting or what he is paying for.
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Cable TV: Owned by a private corporation.
Mail and package delivery: A combination of government-run and private companies.
Proposed idea: Communal running of the internet connection.
Completely different ways of running the appropriate services.
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