Alright, so Free says THEY don't have to send the notices. Fine, so Hadopi has to send the email. Big deal, the customer's email address was probably in the data Free handed over.
But then there's this:
“The thing is, the HADOPI and most ISPs decided it was more convenient and secure to use the ISPs’ SMTP [mail] servers [for sending out warnings],” explained Guillaume.
“But ‘Free’ did not agree to Hadopi using its SMTP servers without a signed agreement, which apparently was refused, probably because they required payment or other forms of compensations.”
So, Free is literally refusing to relay the emails via SMTP from Hadopi? Somethings not right with Free's reasoning here. How else do you send an email to the user (as required by the law) without using the ISP's SMTP servers? And since when do ISPs charge others for the right to email their customers?
That's all well and good, but the officer pulling a gun on a traffic menace isn't abusive. Vehicles can be considered weapons and the motorist's actions can be judged to be hostile. If you watched the video, the guy was pretty brazen and aggressive. We see the guy popping a wheelie and drove far above the speed limit, but we don't know how long the guy had been driving or what else he did prior to the portion he decided to share. As a Marylander, I feel no sympathy for the guy and find most of those commenting to either be well outside their purview and are just cherry-picking because they think it's the popular thing to do while being completely ignorant of the laws involved or eager to make the criminal into a victim.
Everyone who responds to the density debate seems to have glossed over it without much thought, and Copponex here seems to have done just that.
Instead of focusing on averages, let's take a look at how many metropolitan MARKETS are in each nation. To do this, let's look at only HALF of the country's population. Why half? Because if I did 70% or 80%, the numbers would be so unfair to the US that most of those against the density argument would cry foul. So, I'll water down the debate.
Here's a chart, listing country by total population, number of metropolitan areas to make up 50% of population and sorted by Broadband penetration rates (OECD).
Netherlands - 16.6 Million - 6 - 38%
Denmark - 5.5 Million - 2 - 37%
Norway - 4.8 Million - 4 - 35%
Switzerland - 7.8 Million - 6 - 34%
Iceland - 0.3 Million - 1 - 33%
Sweden - 9.3 Million - 7 - 32%
Luxembourg - 0.5 Million - 3 - 31%
France - 65.4 Million - 19 - 30%
United Kingdom - 62 Million - 23 - 30%
Belgium - 10.8 Million - 4 - 28%
United States - 309 Million - 58 - 27%
The number of markets seems to correlate with lower penetration, according to OECD numbers. Even more interesting is what happens when you look at the amount of area represented by this 50%. A quick comparison between the US and Sweden, show's more perspective.
Half of Sweden's population lives on 10.08% of the country's land (according to OECD) while it's 13.91% in the USA. Doesn't seem like much when looking at the percentages, but that 3.82% difference is actually 375,378 square kilometers (9,826,675 * 0.0382) of US soil. Sweden is only 449,964 square kilometers, so the Swedish 50% network is only 48,596 square kilometers.
That makes the difference nearly 8 Swedens represented (375,378/48,596=7.72) and the entire USA network is equal to 28 Swedens.
Now, there are 7 metropolitans for Sweden's 50%, which means the average metropolitan size is around 7000 square kms (48596/7=6942). USA has 58 metropolitans for it's 50%, which means the average metropolitan size is around 24,000 square kms (1366890/58=23567).
Comparing countries with average city sizes less than a third smaller (6942/23567=0.2945) is incredibly unfair. Building a physical network across areas three times the size AND still on par with the rest makes the USA the leader in my opinion.
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Alright, so Free says THEY don't have to send the notices. Fine, so Hadopi has to send the email. Big deal, the customer's email address was probably in the data Free handed over.
But then there's this:
“The thing is, the HADOPI and most ISPs decided it was more convenient and secure to use the ISPs’ SMTP [mail] servers [for sending out warnings],” explained Guillaume.
“But ‘Free’ did not agree to Hadopi using its SMTP servers without a signed agreement, which apparently was refused, probably because they required payment or other forms of compensations.”
So, Free is literally refusing to relay the emails via SMTP from Hadopi? Somethings not right with Free's reasoning here. How else do you send an email to the user (as required by the law) without using the ISP's SMTP servers? And since when do ISPs charge others for the right to email their customers?
That's all well and good, but the officer pulling a gun on a traffic menace isn't abusive. Vehicles can be considered weapons and the motorist's actions can be judged to be hostile. If you watched the video, the guy was pretty brazen and aggressive. We see the guy popping a wheelie and drove far above the speed limit, but we don't know how long the guy had been driving or what else he did prior to the portion he decided to share. As a Marylander, I feel no sympathy for the guy and find most of those commenting to either be well outside their purview and are just cherry-picking because they think it's the popular thing to do while being completely ignorant of the laws involved or eager to make the criminal into a victim.
Everyone who responds to the density debate seems to have glossed over it without much thought, and Copponex here seems to have done just that.
Instead of focusing on averages, let's take a look at how many metropolitan MARKETS are in each nation. To do this, let's look at only HALF of the country's population. Why half? Because if I did 70% or 80%, the numbers would be so unfair to the US that most of those against the density argument would cry foul. So, I'll water down the debate.
Here's a chart, listing country by total population, number of metropolitan areas to make up 50% of population and sorted by Broadband penetration rates (OECD).
Netherlands - 16.6 Million - 6 - 38%
Denmark - 5.5 Million - 2 - 37%
Norway - 4.8 Million - 4 - 35%
Switzerland - 7.8 Million - 6 - 34%
Iceland - 0.3 Million - 1 - 33%
Sweden - 9.3 Million - 7 - 32%
Luxembourg - 0.5 Million - 3 - 31%
France - 65.4 Million - 19 - 30%
United Kingdom - 62 Million - 23 - 30%
Belgium - 10.8 Million - 4 - 28%
United States - 309 Million - 58 - 27%
The number of markets seems to correlate with lower penetration, according to OECD numbers. Even more interesting is what happens when you look at the amount of area represented by this 50%. A quick comparison between the US and Sweden, show's more perspective.
Half of Sweden's population lives on 10.08% of the country's land (according to OECD) while it's 13.91% in the USA. Doesn't seem like much when looking at the percentages, but that 3.82% difference is actually 375,378 square kilometers (9,826,675 * 0.0382) of US soil. Sweden is only 449,964 square kilometers, so the Swedish 50% network is only 48,596 square kilometers.
That makes the difference nearly 8 Swedens represented (375,378/48,596=7.72) and the entire USA network is equal to 28 Swedens.
Now, there are 7 metropolitans for Sweden's 50%, which means the average metropolitan size is around 7000 square kms (48596/7=6942). USA has 58 metropolitans for it's 50%, which means the average metropolitan size is around 24,000 square kms (1366890/58=23567).
Comparing countries with average city sizes less than a third smaller (6942/23567=0.2945) is incredibly unfair. Building a physical network across areas three times the size AND still on par with the rest makes the USA the leader in my opinion.
Source of most statistics: http://www.oecd.org/document/54/0,3343,en_2649_34225_38690102_1_1_1_1,00.html