No it's not a test facility & can't even be considered R&D unless there's some U.S. or Canadian tax law that will allow OptiSolar to claim it as R&D.
How could you even justify R&D when the costs involved are already known along with the potential output & return, what's to R&D?
No, if anything it's a ploy by the Ontario government to score points with the green's in Ontario. After all we are in election mode in Ontario & the environment is the hot ticket item.
I'm sure if we dig deep enough we'll find that one of the Canadian stake holders in OptiSolar is somehow connected to a lobby group or even the Liberal party.
I don't think anyone's being short sighted at all, when these projects reach us the taxpayer we scream pretty loud. The problem is we don't find out about many of them until it's to late. But thanks to the Internet this has been changing if you didn't notice.
I'm aware the cost of power varies throughout the day, it fluctuates daily anywhere from.045 to.075 cents per kilowatt hour.
Where your getting the.50 cents per kilowatt hour figure I have no idea, but it's not from Ontario!
You can have a look here if you don't believe me http://www.ieso.ca/imoweb/siteshared/weekly_up date.asp?sid=ic http://www.ieso.ca/imoweb/siteSha red/monthly_update.asp?sid=ic
As for smart Meters, their only purpose is to create a tax grab by the government. Your not going to save any money or power, in fact it's going to cost every hydro consumer more money to have them.
If you didn't notice the times & rates set for Smart Meters are nothing more than a giant tax grab, have a look for yourself, then tell me what you see the average Ontarians hydro bill doing. http://www.ieso.ca/imoweb/siteShared/smart _meters.asp?sid=ic
If you didn't notice through the links provided, the average "TRUE" cost of power in Ontario for the past 3 months was.055 cents per kilowatt hour. Of course that "TRUE" cost will rise if our governments continue to pay producers.42 cents per kilowatt hour.
Yet now with Smart Meters, the average household will pay huge premium unless they sleep & work during the day & evening, then do household tasks & eat during the night.
I suppose everyone could do all their laundry & eating on the weekends & that would save them some money!
Of course you realize it's a Liberal government who's signed this wonderful deal, well known for their frugal use of tax dollars & creation of top notch government programs!
I'm looking at my latest hydro bill right now, it says I'm paying.055 cents per kilowatt hour & were paying this company.42 cents per kilowatt hour. Is it just me or is there something wrong with this picture?
I suppose the loss will simply be added to the Hydro One debt. Which as some of you already know is another charge we pay on our hydro bills each month, wonderful!
Can't wait for all the Smart Meters to be installed by the end of the year so I can pay all the new charges they'll be bringing. A monthly fee of between $4 & $10 for the next 5 years just to pay for them. Increased administration charge on bill of between $8 to $15 a month, needed by our local utilities to implement & run the Smart Meter program.
All so we can watch live via the web the power were consuming, guess it was to difficult to go outside & look at our meters!
I'd provide the link to the smart Meter info but Toronto hydro pulled the web page for some strange reason! I suppose it's just one of those hidden costs that they didn't want us to find out about until it's to late!
Why would you waste your bandwidth on such a useless extension.
Get DSL & power off your modem every day or two for about 30 seconds, you'll get a new IP address making Google tracking useless, whether you opt-in or not.
I've had Sympatico high speed for the past 5 years & have never had any problems.
No caps on my service it's unlimited, they have a bandwidth activity tracker http://www.bell.ca/myinternet you can see your combined usage for each month. My last tree months were all over 110GB & as it states when I log into that page my account is unlimited bandwidth usage.
I consistently get 450kB/s to 550kB/s speeds when downloading via utorrent, not bad for a 5MB service really.
Here's the part in the user agreement dealing with caps
The Sympatico High Speed Internet service includes:
# 1. a high speed Internet connection;
2. depending on the particular Service offering available to and selected by you: (A) unlimited bandwidth usage; or (B) bandwidth usage with a limit on the combined download (from the Internet to you) and upload (from you to the Internet) bandwidth activity. In the case of (B), this limit will be identified to you prior to placing an order with Your Service Provider. An additional charge will apply for bandwidth activity that exceeds this limit.
Not sure about the U.S. but in Canada you wouldn't believe the forms you need to fill out to open a equities account with a broker here. Aside from personal information your required to provide all employment & financial information about yourself. It's actually easier to buy a gun in Canada than open a trading account.
I agree ISP's should have the ability to block SPAM, but what do you define as SPAM?
As the article points out some people use the stock SPAM to make a fast buck on the hype. It may be wrong but if the ISP's stop these SPAM's they are infact stopping wanted email & could be libel for doing so.
I used to use email filters but stopped a couple years ago, preferring to delete what I don't want myself. I found email filters were simply a waste of time, space, system resources & money. Also considering you had to do much of the work yourself with email filters, it was just as easy to hit the delete button.
My ISP put email filters on everyone's my email accounts by default, this turned out to be a nightmare. In the course of a week I'd lost dozens of emails & the accounts on websites these emails were from.
The cable company's first started charging for additional T.V's in the mid 70's, the Constitution was amended to include the charter of rights in 1982.
My ability to watch or listen to something I purchased (something someone else created) on a medium or in a format I choose is exactly "Freedom of Expression". By denying me that ability your violating the Charter.
Take any product from bubble gun to a toaster, from a music CD to a DVD movie, a bicycle to a automobile. If I choose to use any of these product's in a different manor than they were originally intended, that's my right. Section 2b of the charter is what enforces that right.
Your right Harper v Canada isn't a copyright case, you'll need to understand the charter of rights & how it works to understand the relevance. If you didn't notice, there's also no mention of spending limits in the charter of rights, so how could it have been a Charter case?
You'll rarely see a Charter of Rights case based on anything actually written in the charter, that's not how the Charter works.
Harper felt spending limits hindered his ability to get his message out, therefore spending limits violated section 2b "freedom of expression" of the Charter.
Now take our case of wanting to copy music & movies to a different medium or format so we can watch or listen to them on all our different devices. The music & motion picture industry wants to prevent us from having this ability by removing fair use/fair dealings. This move violates the Charter also by limiting our freedom of expression.
Keep in mind Private Copying (which is what were really talking about here) was added to the Copyright Act in part because of the Charter of Rights.
Do you remember when the cable company's were trying to charge you for a second T.V. if it was attached to the cable in your house. That little cable company practice didn't last long once the charter of rights came into being. Now consider the motive of the recording & motion picture industry for removing fair use/fair dealings, they expect us to also purchase the same product again to view or listen to it on a different device.
And there we are right back in a Charter case just like we were with when the cable company's tried to pull their crap on us.
The Copyright Act is important, but just because they change it's wording to say we can no longer rip & burn our music & movies onto other mediums or to different formats doesn't mean it ends there.
It still has to withstand a charter challenge, I can assure you these changes will fail a challenge on the basis of section 2b of the Charter "freedom of expression".
Making a copy of a music CD for personal use is freedom of expression, selling that same copy goes beyond the bounds of personal use & freedom of expression in this context. If you created the content then making a copy & selling it would fall within fair use & be protected under freedom of expression, there is a difference!
Your correct the Charter doesn't actually mention fair use, copyright or MP3's for that matter & never will.
The Charter is a framework of rights & interpretation is what's used when launching a Charter case.
As for fair use or fair dealings, which basically means making copy's of copyrighted works. That falls very easily under section 2b of the Charter, freedom of expression.
Even our beloved PM Stephen Harper used this as the basis for his court case, later to be heard by the Supreme Court of Canada & he won!
Max wasn't suggesting the Chinese people are better off being censored. It's more of a "what you don't know won't hurt you" type of thing, in this case.
The Chinese people aren't stupid, they realize & understand much of what's going on around the world & the form of government they have. The dissident's in China make up a very small portion of the population, just as the dissidents in our countries do.
The Chinese government is moving to a free marketplace system, I'm not going to say a Democratic government as there are none on the planet. But this takes time, not tomorrow, next week or next year but within a decade or two. Their population & economy is simply to big to adsorb the types of changes that need to take place all at once. To do so at an fast pace would be disastrous for everyone, including the western countries. The western governments already understand this, why do you think they don't press many Chinese issues in public, it's the general public who's unaware of what's really happening, which leads me to the next point.
Western countries are severely censored but it's far worst than anything China's doing. It's not just done by the government's, you have numerous other powerful groups censoring everything you hear, see & read everyday. Yes I'm referring to the news or Propaganda as it's more commonly known. The out of context news clips we see everyday is far more insidious than the simple censorship China employs. The government, media outlets, religious organizations & every special interest group going, employs the fine art of propaganda to sway the masses.
And it works to, do you recall those WMD's (weapons of mass destruction), well you should the American people bought it lock stock & barrel.
"If a law is wrong, it's wrong - here in America or in China.
I have the right as a free human to try and change ANYTHING I perceive as wrong"
That's like saying you can dictate what I do in my own home! Of course if your part of the religious right you likely truly believe you can.
What I do in my home or what laws another country might have are no concern of your's or anyone else's. Feel free however to exercise your Perceived right, but if you end up dead because someone else exercised their right's, don't come crying to me!
Individual countries have the same right's you claim to have. If they choose to sensor their citizens, that's their right also!
"a person can typically choose not to assimilate information, but a person has no right to refuse others that opportunity."
Then perhaps North American's should all work on their own government's first! Instead of acting like the typical hypocrites we've always proven to be.
So here we are right back at Max's point, arguing about who's right, or who's right's are righter?
That's very simple, the one with the biggest gun wins!
In this case it's not the U.S. or the rest of the G7 nations, with their holy than thou attitude. No it's China & if you slap them in the face long enough, you'll get a knockout punch right back.
"I have the right to help a homeless person"
Did you ever stop to consider the homeless person might not want your help. I suppose you'll find out for if you get spit on or a knife in your gut.
But hey it's your Perceived right to stick your nose in other people's business right?
There's a sure fire cure for this, just do what I did & submit bogus tips to cybertip.ca If everyone sends in bogus tips it's sure to cause them some problems.
Who cares if they have your IP address when you make a report, what are they going to do sue you for filliing out their form. I honestly thought the Globe&Mail article was promoting & advocating child porn.
The ads on the Bell Canada website looked like child porn to me, Roger's site even has some.
There's likely babyfood & diaper ads on other sites, isn't that child exploitation? I better report those sites to.
The cybertip website has caused me to look for child porn so I can report it, isn't that reason enough to block the cybertip site. It advocates & encourages people to seek out child porn, it's turning me into a vigilante.
Currently in Canada the only time an ISP or Phone provider is required to retain any information about a subscrider is by court order or warrant through the courts. ISP's in Canada only cache (retain) data at the moment for their own usage. Cached webpages increase their networks speeds, just like your temp Internet files allow webpages you visit often to load faster.
The new bill the government wants to pass will eliminate the need for court orders & require all ISP's to monitor & store each subscibers web browsing history. Police would be provided with access points to jump in & monitor any subscriber anytime they wished without anyone's knowledge, & have complete access to all the retained data the ISP has stored about each subscriber.
Well the user agreement your referencing is for the "Unplugged Service" which is slightly different. Here's the Sympatico Service Agreements & the Security & Privacy policy's of Bell. Note that the Privacy policy still maintains they will only provide user information by court order or warrant, guess they forgot to update these policy's.
You may be right that their only going to monitor Sympatico accounts.
However the previous Liberal bill was to require all ISP's to implement data retention & each ISP was to foot their associated costs. The the new bill (which I haven't yet read) may have been revised to require the network owners to monitor all network traffic (they can afford the expense) as apposed to the smaller ISP's having to foot the bill, which would bankrupt most if not all small IPS's.
By requiring all ISP's to implement data retention the government would violate various sections of CRTC Acts regarding competition, since it would put the small one's out of business & stifle competition.
Bell will be monitoring not just Sympatico customers but all network traffic on all Bell's lines.
This article was only regarding Sympatico's new user agreement & yes since it's the Sympatico user agreement one could assume only Sympatico customers will be monitored.
But this isn't the case read the 3rd paragraph again closely.
monitor or investigate content or your use of your service provider's networks
Actually since becoming single again my bedroom was the quietest place in Canada!
Knowing one of our governments just pissed away another $52.2 million on something that a private business should've built & paid for. My bedroom won't so quiet anymore, not with another round of tossing & turning coming on.
There's a huge difference between perceived loses & real loses. They appear to be taking a page out BSA's book to reach such conclusions.
Using the entertainment industry's analogy, every P2P download represents a lost sale, & it sounds & looks good to the average Politician!
Now if we use an example the flaw will become apparent.
Example: If Photoshop's latest version get's downloaded via P2P 100,000 times does that mean they lost those sale's?
Answer: At $649 US a pop I very mush doubt it!
Being generous I'd guess only 1% to 2% of those 100,000 people would truly pay $649 US for Photoshop if that was the only way they could get it.
I think it would be safe to say the true cost of Piracy isn't $250 billion, but closer to the $2.5 to 5 billion mark anually. In all likelyhood the U.S. government will spend more than that amount each year hence forth in fighting Piracy, thanks to the lobby groups mystical figures.
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How could you even justify R&D when the costs involved are already known along with the potential output & return, what's to R&D?
No, if anything it's a ploy by the Ontario government to score points with the green's in Ontario. After all we are in election mode in Ontario & the environment is the hot ticket item.
I'm sure if we dig deep enough we'll find that one of the Canadian stake holders in OptiSolar is somehow connected to a lobby group or even the Liberal party.
I don't think anyone's being short sighted at all, when these projects reach us the taxpayer we scream pretty loud. The problem is we don't find out about many of them until it's to late. But thanks to the Internet this has been changing if you didn't notice.
Where your getting the .50 cents per kilowatt hour figure I have no idea, but it's not from Ontario!
You can have a look here if you don't believe mep date.asp?sid=ica red/monthly_update.asp?sid=ic
http://www.ieso.ca/imoweb/siteshared/weekly_u
http://www.ieso.ca/imoweb/siteSh
As for smart Meters, their only purpose is to create a tax grab by the government. Your not going to save any money or power, in fact it's going to cost every hydro consumer more money to have them.
If you didn't notice the times & rates set for Smart Meters are nothing more than a giant tax grab, have a look for yourself, then tell me what you see the average Ontarians hydro bill doing.t _meters.asp?sid=ic
http://www.ieso.ca/imoweb/siteShared/smar
If you didn't notice through the links provided, the average "TRUE" cost of power in Ontario for the past 3 months was .055 cents per kilowatt hour. Of course that "TRUE" cost will rise if our governments continue to pay producers .42 cents per kilowatt hour.
Yet now with Smart Meters, the average household will pay huge premium unless they sleep & work during the day & evening, then do household tasks & eat during the night.
I suppose everyone could do all their laundry & eating on the weekends & that would save them some money!
I'm looking at my latest hydro bill right now, it says I'm paying .055 cents per kilowatt hour & were paying this company .42 cents per kilowatt hour. Is it just me or is there something wrong with this picture?
I suppose the loss will simply be added to the Hydro One debt. Which as some of you already know is another charge we pay on our hydro bills each month, wonderful!
Can't wait for all the Smart Meters to be installed by the end of the year so I can pay all the new charges they'll be bringing. A monthly fee of between $4 & $10 for the next 5 years just to pay for them. Increased administration charge on bill of between $8 to $15 a month, needed by our local utilities to implement & run the Smart Meter program.
All so we can watch live via the web the power were consuming, guess it was to difficult to go outside & look at our meters!
I'd provide the link to the smart Meter info but Toronto hydro pulled the web page for some strange reason! I suppose it's just one of those hidden costs that they didn't want us to find out about until it's to late!
Having Firefox send random search requests to Google does just that.
clear your temp files at the same time!
No caps on my service it's unlimited, they have a bandwidth activity tracker http://www.bell.ca/myinternet you can see your combined usage for each month. My last tree months were all over 110GB & as it states when I log into that page my account is unlimited bandwidth usage.
I consistently get 450kB/s to 550kB/s speeds when downloading via utorrent, not bad for a 5MB service really.
Here's the part in the user agreement dealing with caps
The Sympatico High Speed Internet service includes: # 1. a high speed Internet connection; 2. depending on the particular Service offering available to and selected by you: (A) unlimited bandwidth usage; or (B) bandwidth usage with a limit on the combined download (from the Internet to you) and upload (from you to the Internet) bandwidth activity. In the case of (B), this limit will be identified to you prior to placing an order with Your Service Provider. An additional charge will apply for bandwidth activity that exceeds this limit.
If you want to compare providers look here http://www.canadianisp.com/
If I did have to switch I'd likely go with http://www.montreal-dsl.com/index.php
Not sure about the U.S. but in Canada you wouldn't believe the forms you need to fill out to open a equities account with a broker here. Aside from personal information your required to provide all employment & financial information about yourself. It's actually easier to buy a gun in Canada than open a trading account.
As the article points out some people use the stock SPAM to make a fast buck on the hype. It may be wrong but if the ISP's stop these SPAM's they are infact stopping wanted email & could be libel for doing so.
I used to use email filters but stopped a couple years ago, preferring to delete what I don't want myself. I found email filters were simply a waste of time, space, system resources & money. Also considering you had to do much of the work yourself with email filters, it was just as easy to hit the delete button.
My ISP put email filters on everyone's my email accounts by default, this turned out to be a nightmare. In the course of a week I'd lost dozens of emails & the accounts on websites these emails were from.
Thankfully I was able to remove all the filters.
My ability to watch or listen to something I purchased (something someone else created) on a medium or in a format I choose is exactly "Freedom of Expression". By denying me that ability your violating the Charter.
Take any product from bubble gun to a toaster, from a music CD to a DVD movie, a bicycle to a automobile. If I choose to use any of these product's in a different manor than they were originally intended, that's my right. Section 2b of the charter is what enforces that right.
If you didn't notice, there's also no mention of spending limits in the charter of rights, so how could it have been a Charter case?
You'll rarely see a Charter of Rights case based on anything actually written in the charter, that's not how the Charter works.
Harper felt spending limits hindered his ability to get his message out, therefore spending limits violated section 2b "freedom of expression" of the Charter.
Now take our case of wanting to copy music & movies to a different medium or format so we can watch or listen to them on all our different devices.
The music & motion picture industry wants to prevent us from having this ability by removing fair use/fair dealings. This move violates the Charter also by limiting our freedom of expression.
Keep in mind Private Copying (which is what were really talking about here) was added to the Copyright Act in part because of the Charter of Rights.
Do you remember when the cable company's were trying to charge you for a second T.V. if it was attached to the cable in your house. That little cable company practice didn't last long once the charter of rights came into being.
Now consider the motive of the recording & motion picture industry for removing fair use/fair dealings, they expect us to also purchase the same product again to view or listen to it on a different device.
And there we are right back in a Charter case just like we were with when the cable company's tried to pull their crap on us.
The Copyright Act is important, but just because they change it's wording to say we can no longer rip & burn our music & movies onto other mediums or to different formats doesn't mean it ends there.
It still has to withstand a charter challenge, I can assure you these changes will fail a challenge on the basis of section 2b of the Charter "freedom of expression".
Making a copy of a music CD for personal use is freedom of expression, selling that same copy goes beyond the bounds of personal use & freedom of expression in this context. If you created the content then making a copy & selling it would fall within fair use & be protected under freedom of expression, there is a difference!
The Charter is a framework of rights & interpretation is what's used when launching a Charter case.
As for fair use or fair dealings, which basically means making copy's of copyrighted works. That falls very easily under section 2b of the Charter, freedom of expression.
Even our beloved PM Stephen Harper used this as the basis for his court case, later to be heard by the Supreme Court of Canada & he won!
Harper v. Canada (Attorney General)0 00scc57.html
http://scc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/2000/2000scc57/2
You see it isn't the Copyright Act that dictates fair use & allows us Canadians to
download & upload whatever we want.
The Charter of Rights allows us this privilege!
And not even a government with 100% of the seats in the House of Commons
can change the Charter of rights on their own.
It's more of a "what you don't know won't hurt you" type of thing, in this case.
The Chinese people aren't stupid, they realize & understand much of what's going on around the world
& the form of government they have. The dissident's in China make up a very small portion of the population,
just as the dissidents in our countries do.
The Chinese government is moving to a free marketplace system, I'm not going to say a Democratic
government as there are none on the planet.
But this takes time, not tomorrow, next week or next year but within a decade or two.
Their population & economy is simply to big to adsorb the types of changes that need to take place all at once.
To do so at an fast pace would be disastrous for everyone, including the western countries.
The western governments already understand this, why do you think they don't press many Chinese issues in public,
it's the general public who's unaware of what's really happening, which leads me to the next point.
Western countries are severely censored but it's far worst than anything China's doing.
It's not just done by the government's, you have numerous other powerful groups censoring everything you hear,
see & read everyday.
Yes I'm referring to the news or Propaganda as it's more commonly known.
The out of context news clips we see everyday is far more insidious than the simple censorship China employs.
The government, media outlets, religious organizations & every special interest group going, employs the fine art of
propaganda to sway the masses.
And it works to, do you recall those WMD's (weapons of mass destruction), well you should the American
people bought it lock stock & barrel.
human to try and change ANYTHING I perceive as wrong"
That's like saying you can dictate what I do in my own home! Of course if your part of the religious
right you likely truly believe you can.
What I do in my home or what laws another country might have are no concern of your's or anyone else's.
Feel free however to exercise your Perceived right, but if you end up dead because someone else
exercised their right's, don't come crying to me!
Individual countries have the same right's you claim to have. If they choose to sensor their citizens, that's their right also!
"a person can typically choose not to assimilate information, but a person has no right to refuse others that opportunity."
Then perhaps North American's should all work on their own government's first!
Instead of acting like the typical hypocrites we've always proven to be.
So here we are right back at Max's point, arguing about who's right, or who's right's are righter?
That's very simple, the one with the biggest gun wins!
In this case it's not the U.S. or the rest of the G7 nations, with their holy than thou attitude. No it's China & if you slap
them in the face long enough, you'll get a knockout punch right back.
"I have the right to help a homeless person"
Did you ever stop to consider the homeless person might not want your help. I suppose you'll find out for if you get
spit on or a knife in your gut.
But hey it's your Perceived right to stick your nose in other people's business right?
If we want China to become another Iraq, we'll continue down the self righteous path of converting all countries to our beliefs.
If everyone sends in bogus tips it's sure to cause them some problems.
Who cares if they have your IP address when you make a report,
what are they going to do sue you for filliing out their form.
I honestly thought the Globe&Mail article was promoting & advocating child porn.
The ads on the Bell Canada website looked like child porn to me, Roger's site even has some.
There's likely babyfood & diaper ads on other sites, isn't that child exploitation?
I better report those sites to.
The cybertip website has caused me to look for child porn so I can report it, isn't that reason
enough to block the cybertip site. It advocates & encourages people to seek out child porn,
it's turning me into a vigilante.
Why not dump your cable & go with FTA (freetoair) no fees no location issues!
Yes there's still ads, but at least you didn't pay for them!
Currently in Canada the only time an ISP or Phone provider is required to retain any information
about a subscrider is by court order or warrant through the courts. ISP's in Canada only cache
(retain) data at the moment for their own usage. Cached webpages increase their networks speeds,
just like your temp Internet files allow webpages you visit often to load faster.
The new bill the government wants to pass will eliminate the need for court orders & require all
ISP's to monitor & store each subscibers web browsing history. Police would be provided with
access points to jump in & monitor any subscriber anytime they wished without anyone's knowledge,
& have complete access to all the retained data the ISP has stored about each subscriber.
BCE is a public company not a crown corporation.
Well the user agreement your referencing is for the "Unplugged Service" which is slightly different.
Here's the Sympatico Service Agreements & the Security & Privacy policy's of Bell.
Note that the Privacy policy still maintains they will only provide user information by court order
or warrant, guess they forgot to update these policy's.
You may be right that their only going to monitor Sympatico accounts.
However the previous Liberal bill was to require all ISP's to implement data retention & each ISP
was to foot their associated costs.
The the new bill (which I haven't yet read) may have been revised to require the network owners
to monitor all network traffic (they can afford the expense) as apposed to the smaller ISP's having
to foot the bill, which would bankrupt most if not all small IPS's.
By requiring all ISP's to implement data retention the government would violate various sections of
CRTC Acts regarding competition, since it would put the small one's out of business & stifle competition.
Bell will be monitoring not just Sympatico customers but all network traffic on all Bell's lines.
This article was only regarding Sympatico's new user agreement & yes since it's the Sympatico
user agreement one could assume only Sympatico customers will be monitored.
But this isn't the case read the 3rd paragraph again closely.
monitor or investigate content or your use of your service provider's networks
You better read the third paragraph of the article again.
"monitor or investigate content or your use of your service provider's networks"
They'll be monitoring their entire network including ISP's that lease lines,
basically all content flowing through Bell's lines.
This is why Sympatico dropped bandwidth caps....so give it a week or so & we'll see what happens.
Subscriber backlash does wonders to the attitudes of big business.
Most DSL providers lease Bell lines, & according to the article
they'll be monitoring both subscriders & the providers who lease from Bell!
Actually since becoming single again my bedroom was the quietest place in Canada!
Knowing one of our governments just pissed away another $52.2 million on something
that a private business should've built & paid for.
My bedroom won't so quiet anymore, not with another round of tossing & turning coming on.
There's a huge difference between perceived loses & real loses.
They appear to be taking a page out BSA's book to reach such conclusions.
Using the entertainment industry's analogy, every P2P download represents a lost sale,
& it sounds & looks good to the average Politician!
Now if we use an example the flaw will become apparent.
Example: If Photoshop's latest version get's downloaded via P2P 100,000 times does
that mean they lost those sale's?
Answer: At $649 US a pop I very mush doubt it!
Being generous I'd guess only 1% to 2% of those 100,000 people would truly pay
$649 US for Photoshop if that was the only way they could get it.
I think it would be safe to say the true cost of Piracy isn't $250 billion, but closer to the
$2.5 to 5 billion mark anually.
In all likelyhood the U.S. government will spend more than that amount each year hence
forth in fighting Piracy, thanks to the lobby groups mystical figures.