um, no Before delving into the complications, it is transparently obvious that one owner for both conduit and one or more brands of content is a conflict of interest. It is in the interest of the consumer that the direct provider of the conduit not be committed to some brands of content over others. One of the most aggressive fallacies is that Google, for instance, uses immense bandwidth "without paying for it". This is deliberately deceitful because the recipients are each paying for the bandwidth. I receive large amounts of mail "without paying for it." The opportunity to double-charge by charging "content providers" for preferred accessibility in addition to charging subscribers as they are already charged now promises enormous increases in profit for no increase of expenditure or product. If some minority of bandwidth hogs were a real problem, it could be easily handled by tiering pricing by raw volume, which, in fact, is already industry practice. (I've read the fine print on several "unlimited" plans.)
And Moshe, isn't vertical integration counter to disaggregation? You know perfectly well that the internet was invented by the government, and how unlikely it is that anything like it would exist otherwise. (Would you really want the great Redmond brain trust dreaming up ever more arcane ways of preventing the Microsoft Internet® from being compatible with the FOSS Internet?)
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Before delving into the complications, it is transparently obvious that one owner for both conduit and one or more brands of content is a conflict of interest. It is in the interest of the consumer that the direct provider of the conduit not be committed to some brands of content over others.
One of the most aggressive fallacies is that Google, for instance, uses immense bandwidth "without paying for it". This is deliberately deceitful because the recipients are each paying for the bandwidth. I receive large amounts of mail "without paying for it."
The opportunity to double-charge by charging "content providers" for preferred accessibility in addition to charging subscribers as they are already charged now promises enormous increases in profit for no increase of expenditure or product.
If some minority of bandwidth hogs were a real problem, it could be easily handled by tiering pricing by raw volume, which, in fact, is already industry practice. (I've read the fine print on several "unlimited" plans.)
And Moshe, isn't vertical integration counter to disaggregation? You know perfectly well that the internet was invented by the government, and how unlikely it is that anything like it would exist otherwise. (Would you really want the great Redmond brain trust dreaming up ever more arcane ways of preventing the Microsoft Internet® from being compatible with the FOSS Internet?)