On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 11:08:20AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
What is your price for cocaine?
No, seriously.. If, as some estimates have it, 80% of the traffic is P2P, and as other estimates have it, 90% of that is copyright-infringing, then if that traffic disappears, anybody who was selling transit for that traffic is going to take a *big* revenue hit.
Not for long. The *problem* is edge customers having to continually increase the size of their pipes to make room for the good stuff amongst the crap. If the crap goes away, there will then be room for the chicken and egg problem with the steady march of IPTV etc to finally take off for real, I should think...
I think it's very disingenuous to pretend that there have been *no* providers that haven't said to themselves "We're selling to scum, but it pays the bills, and we'd be in bankruptcy court otherwise..."
Sure. And those are the people we don't *care* if they take it in the wallet, no? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Josef Stalin)