6 Jan
1998
6 Jan
'98
5:40 p.m.
At Friday, Paul A Vixie wrote:
At the WIPO meeting in December 1996, the consensus was that mirroring ran afoul of copyright and license issues, and that caching did not. Caching was deemed an automated (no human intervention required) response to demanded traffic, and mirroring was considered a proactive human act.
Another interesting question than the intellectual property issue, is the question of what a NSP/ISP might do with the statistics on proxy traffic -- the numbers on hits, bytes, etc -- and the usage profiles of individuals using the proxy. I think it is only a matter of time and opportunity before some ISPs would begin to exploit revenue opportunities associated with this new gatekeeping role, should it develop. --Kent