True, but the way these companies bring up Google as the poster child, they want to share in the profit or the popularity of Google not a realative flat tax on bytes.
But that still leave some ISP in the cold. What if the traffic traverses an ISP? ISP1 may not connect to the client or to Google, but traffic from client to Google travels over ISP1. (I'm thinking of the old WilTel days.) ISP1 would want its share from both parties.
Thus I do not see a bandwidth tax is what these ISP's are ultimately after.
But I do agree with you, they do want the government and everyone to think of them as starving arts trying to better man-kind, if those evil corporations will only allow them.
One question: Who would Google have to pay?
SBC (or at&t there new name, notice the lower case.:-)
Qwest? etc?
Or are we starting to talk about a transit tax. Basically if Google wants to have quick access to people on an ISP, they have to pay more than Yahoo? But I as a client to an ISP, if I want fast access to Google, I'll have to pay more.
I'm beginning to see why Google is creating their own network. If it gets big enough, Google will be charging at&t to transit their network.:-)
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But that still leave some ISP in the cold. What if the traffic traverses an ISP? ISP1 may not connect to the client or to Google, but traffic from client to Google travels over ISP1. (I'm thinking of the old WilTel days.) ISP1 would want its share from both parties.
Thus I do not see a bandwidth tax is what these ISP's are ultimately after.
But I do agree with you, they do want the government and everyone to think of them as starving arts trying to better man-kind, if those evil corporations will only allow them.
Thanks.
One question: Who would Google have to pay? SBC (or at&t there new name, notice the lower case. :-)
Qwest? etc?
Or are we starting to talk about a transit tax. Basically if Google wants to have quick access to people on an ISP, they have to pay more than Yahoo? But I as a client to an ISP, if I want fast access to Google, I'll have to pay more.
I'm beginning to see why Google is creating their own network. If it gets big enough, Google will be charging at&t to transit their network. :-)
Your assuming that mp3 will be around? Or what about being able to read standard CD's? Copy protection is ruling out your basic CD player.
Kind of tangent to your point. Libraries and archivist are worried about how do we read formats that are 5, 10, 50 years old?