 DHRacerFire Survivor
join:2000-10-10
Lake Arrowhead, CA
 ·Charter
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| Yeah but... "Not only does a metered Internet service plan screw the low-end users, it makes BitTorrent or any kind of peer-to-peer networking cost prohibitive. "
Wait, how does it screw the low-end users? Or anyone for that matter. If you use it, you pay for it. If you use it more, you pay more. What's missing here?
The only thing I see is that metered service needs to really CHEAP per byte, or KB, or MB or some agreeable metric. Which is probably the thing that's never going to happen.
If it did, I don't see why metered wouldn't work. However, leave it to the corps to overcharge for everything and have everyone getting lynch mobs prepared.
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"No one will believe you solved this problem in one day! We've been working on it for months. Now, go act busy for a few weeks and I'll let you know when it's time to tell them." (R&D Supervisor, Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing /3M Corp.) |
