Lawyers are circling... - dslreports.com

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jester121 join:2003-08-09 Lake Zurich, IL ·surpasshosting ·ViaTalk	Lawyers are circling... The real question is whether or not BT will have grounds to sue for interference with business practices. It's one thing when it's an open source, headless monster as many of the P2P apps started out, but it's another thing entirely to interfere with another company's right to transact business with their customers.
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jap Premium join:2003-08-10 038xx ·RoadRunner Cable	said by jester121 : The real question is whether or not BT will have grounds to sue for interference with business practices. The thing is BT-Official is assisting content providers in externalizing cost to the enduser. Due to the billing structure (and network designs) of flat-feeing user accounts the ISPs lose too. I think that gives ISPs, posing as defending their users, a good argument. Hopefully ISPs will respond with moving to measured service (rather than litigation) which ought to of happened long ago ... and has to happen sooner or later. Any shared & limited resource system has to be cost-regulated by whomever makes consumption decisions. That's us. It's a tough feeling nut only because we've been awash in excess bandwidth from the generous runs of fiber buried in the late 1990s coupled with ISPs competing for market share. Both of those factors are diminishing.
jap Premium join:2003-08-10 038xx ·RoadRunner Cable	to forum · permalink · · 2007-02-02 00:04:47 ·


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