I in many great parts wholely disagree with you but maybe I'm just being hopeful. Whoever has mod points out there bank this one up for such a well thought out and articulated opinion.
My impression of the Stacker thing is not yeah for patents. It's yeah for smiting hypocrites with their own medicine. It's nice to see M$ get smited by the very same evil machinations they bully everybody else with.
If anything, your continuing the analogy onto a mall makes the case for the ISP paying even more. Let's say your mall store is your web site and the place containing the store, the mall, is the ISP. You get fined if you let people in your store and go over capacity. But you don't get fined if there are just an assload of people milling about the mall trying to come in your store but you won't let them. The problem is in this case the mall ISP is charging you for people who enter their premises with the intention of going to your store even if they never make it there because your closed, decide they look shifty, whatever. Like popup adds, rarely do sites get paid just for having a popup or banner add. The site only gets payed if someone steps through the threshold by clicking on that popup or banner add. Hence the mall store should only get charged/fined if they let someone step over their threshold, not for some asshole hammering on the glass all day.
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I in many great parts wholely disagree with you but maybe I'm just being hopeful. Whoever has mod points out there bank this one up for such a well thought out and articulated opinion.
Do you happen to know what COD means? Cash On Delivery. Insert clue here... rewind.
My impression of the Stacker thing is not yeah for patents. It's yeah for smiting hypocrites with their own medicine. It's nice to see M$ get smited by the very same evil machinations they bully everybody else with.
If anything, your continuing the analogy onto a mall makes the case for the ISP paying even more. Let's say your mall store is your web site and the place containing the store, the mall, is the ISP. You get fined if you let people in your store and go over capacity. But you don't get fined if there are just an assload of people milling about the mall trying to come in your store but you won't let them. The problem is in this case the mall ISP is charging you for people who enter their premises with the intention of going to your store even if they never make it there because your closed, decide they look shifty, whatever. Like popup adds, rarely do sites get paid just for having a popup or banner add. The site only gets payed if someone steps through the threshold by clicking on that popup or banner add. Hence the mall store should only get charged/fined if they let someone step over their threshold, not for some asshole hammering on the glass all day.