I don't think that Apple would even consider paying anyone to let customers download off of iTunes. They sell every iPod they make, and have sold almost a billion songs.
1 billion * 0.05 = 50 million dollars
Apple would rather cut off BS users and lose a couple million songs, than allow this to continue and possibly lose even more money if every ISP goes this way.
If we're looking at closed source at being bad, we should also look into how restricitve licenses are in the first place. If we did away with them altogether, it would be much better.
For one thing, companies would be liable for their software, and therefore would need insurance. Insurance rates would be based on risk (read: quality of code and number of incidents). Companies that write good code would have low insurance, and have an economic advantage over those that don't.
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I don't think that Apple would even consider paying anyone to let customers download off of iTunes. They sell every iPod they make, and have sold almost a billion songs. 1 billion * 0.05 = 50 million dollars Apple would rather cut off BS users and lose a couple million songs, than allow this to continue and possibly lose even more money if every ISP goes this way.
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If we're looking at closed source at being bad, we should also look into how restricitve licenses are in the first place. If we did away with them altogether, it would be much better. For one thing, companies would be liable for their software, and therefore would need insurance. Insurance rates would be based on risk (read: quality of code and number of incidents). Companies that write good code would have low insurance, and have an economic advantage over those that don't.