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From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 08:57:51 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Jordan Pollack <pollack () cs brandeis edu ml to> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 09:37:45 -0400 To: dave () farber net ml to Subject: Re: [IP] Lessig: Coalition Asks FCC to Ensure End-to-End It is a two-faced idea to expect both neutrality and copyright enforcement. Like pro life and pro death penalty. The real thing carriers want to control is cable sharing. If they sell it to your house and you beam it or run a wire next door, its "theft of services." lots of precedence that a cable is not the same as broadcast on public airwaves. So if you setup a open wifi for your neighborhood off an unlimited bandwidth cable modem, it is also theft of services. What is at the core of all this ridiculousness is "unlimited" broadband service. The phone company which invented "unlimited flat rate" realized you could only make so many serial phonecalls. But with unlimited broadband, you can send unlimited spam or download unlimited music in parallel. There are only 2 solutions: one is a global ad hoc broadband wireless network which makes the public airwaves public again. Then instead of spending $50 a month for starbucks wifi, you'd just take your coffee outside. The other is bandwidth metering, like DOCOMO, at which point you WILL be billed for your neighbors usage. But metered billing can identify the bits. So at that point advertisers like Microsoft and Disney will be against neutrality so they can subsidize their bits to the home, like on TV, crowding out the cacaphony of democracy. Jordan ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To unsubscribe or update your address, click http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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