ross
join:2000-08-16
 ·Digizip
| reply to SuperWISP
Re: Rearranging the deck chairs
said by SuperWISP  :This "P4P" nonsense is an attempt to quash legitimate complaints from ISPs that P2P is hogging their resources. But it really does nothing to solve the problem. P2P by its very nature is a way of setting up servers on ISPs' networks, taking their upstream bandwidth without paying for it. And "P4P" does nothing to solve that problem. If content providers want to use ISPs' networks for their servers, they need to pay them for it. It's just fair. Trying to do it without paying their freight is theft of service -- and will result in higher costs for users. If the P4P people really wanted to do something useful, they'd work out a payment scheme which paid the ISPs for the use of their networks. Bullshit! Users/subscribers, including so-called content providers, already pay for their upstream and downstream bandwidth in the form of the monthly contract amount for internet service, and by providing the content that drives the the money machine. P2P just lightens the load on any single ISP/network by distributing the source files/seeds around. It all equals out in the end. Well, except for those who don't use P2P, and their lack of use just leaves more bandwidth on the table. Everyone using P2P is a content provider, except for the leeches who don't seed or share. Big commercial content providers pay their way as well. Take away the content from the web, and there is very little to drive customers to subscribe service. ISPs get paid for bandwidth up-front, and then get paid for advertising, click stream data, profiling their customers for various commercial interests, etc.. Time for them to stop bitchin' about how they don't get paid double or triple for the same bandwidth they have already oversold. If they want to get paid for "phantom bandwidth", maybe they should think about compensating customers for the raping they give privacy every minute of every day. If they don't like being "dumb-pipe" providers, they can always find some other form of employment. |
