 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | water and electricity should be unmetered. Since obviously that's the better system.
Do you remember being always told to turn off the lights or close the door? Or perhaps you tell people that yourself. Why? Because you are paying per kilowatt. If your electric company charged you one rate you wouldn't care how much you used. Would that be a good thing? No of course not.
Metered bandwidth would make people aware of how much they are actually using.
it makes BitTorrent or any kind of peer-to-peer networking cost prohibitive. Yeha and that's bad? So it's more expensive to steal the latest HD version of a movie instead of paying for it like you should. So what. |
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| said by BF69:Since obviously that's the better system. Do you remember being always told to turn off the lights or close the door? Or perhaps you tell people that yourself. Why? Because you are paying per kilowatt. If your electric company charged you one rate you wouldn't care how much you used. Would that be a good thing? No of course not. Metered bandwidth would make people aware of how much they are actually using. it makes BitTorrent or any kind of peer-to-peer networking cost prohibitive. Yeha and that's bad? So it's more expensive to steal the latest HD version of a movie instead of paying for it like you should. So what. Go to hell. Seriously. People who use BT or know how to actually use their connection to its fullest extent do NOT MAKE THEM PIRATES. TV isn't metered, so neither should the net. Metering the net would drastically change the entire system, especially in the direction it is heading with VOIP and IPTV. |
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 djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
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Actually there are plenty of places where you play a flat rate for utilities, typically included in a rental agreement. Friend of mine lived in an apartment in West Hollywood and he could use as much electricity as he pleased.
Somehow, the place hasn't gone bankrupt.
Its simple math really. Yes, there is a small percentage of "hogs" who will use more than their fair share. There are enough "lighter" users who will happily subsidize them in exchange for the privilege of not having to worry about doing something wrong / getting infected with a virus and getting slammed with a huge bill.
As redholm's excellent post points out, it's far easier for average joes to get a grip on what's making their electric meters spin than it is to figure out what's racking up bandwidth charges. |
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go crawl back up your mamas ass where you came from you moron. 99% of bt traffic is illegal movies, music, warez, and porn. you are a typical teenage fucktard. |
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BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to djrobx
said by djrobx:Actually there are plenty of places where you play a flat rate for utilities, typically included in a rental agreement. Friend of mine lived in an apartment in West Hollywood and he could use as much electricity as he pleased. Good for him 99.9% of everyone else doesn't live that way.
Its simple math really. Yes, there is a small percentage of "hogs" who will use more than their fair share. There are enough "lighter" users who will happily subsidize them in exchange for the privilege of not having to worry about doing something wrong / getting infected with a virus and getting slammed with a huge bill. I seriousy doubt if you told most people that their bill is double what it should be because of a small minority of users gobbling of bandwidth, that they be HAPPY about anything.
Also a virus eating up bandwidth? Sounds like the dog ate my homework. Even if true you'd rather have thousands if not millions of people be blissfully unaware that a virus in their comuter wasting god knows untold amounts of bandwidth which affect EVERYONE. Because if they were aware they get rid of the virus and thus your point would be moot. If someone is so dumb that they leave their computer unportected to the point that a virus can eat up hundreds of GBs a month in bandwidth then maybe they don't deserve internet access at all.
As redholm's excellent post points out, it's far easier for average joes to get a grip on what's making their electric meters spin than it is to figure out what's racking up bandwidth charges.
Yes let's dumb down the world. At anyrate if I asked the "average joe" what a kilowatt is he wouldn't have a clue. If I asked him how much his electric company charges per kilowatt he wouldn't have a clue. If I ask him how much electricity his fridge, water heater and TV used each month he woudn't have a clue. If I asked him how much electricity would a 60 watt bulb use in a month if left on 24 hours a day he wouldn't have a clue.
Most people have cell phones. That's metered. People seem to get that. |
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