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more on SBC hints at charge to Web publishers By Frank Barnako, MarketWatch
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 14:30:28 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Robert Lee <robertslee () verizon net> Date: November 2, 2005 11:16:54 AM EST To: dave () farber netSubject: RE: [IP] SBC hints at charge to Web publishers By Frank Barnako, MarketWatch
Two or three years ago SBC sent letters to thousands of small businesses that used frames in their web pages that SBC had invented frames and that the businesses should begin paying SBC royalties or face law suits. I don't know where this campaign wound up. An IP attorney friend of mine wrote to me that this is a ploy used by unethical large corporations to see if they can set a precedent using undercapitalized stoolie businesses that do not have the wherewithal to fight a large corporation. If they can get enough people paying then the idea is that they can use that as corroboration of their claim. -----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 5:04 PM To: robertslee () verizon net Subject: [IP] SBC hints at charge to Web publishers By Frank Barnako, MarketWatch Begin forwarded message: From: Rob Raisch <info () raischfinancial com> Date: November 1, 2005 2:35:14 PM EST To: dave () farber net Subject: SBC hints at charge to Web publishers By Frank Barnako, MarketWatch SBC hints at charge to Web publishers By Frank Barnako, MarketWatch Last Update: 1:59 PM ET Nov 1, 2005 WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) --- The chief executive of SBC Communications Inc. thinks companies doing business on the Internet, such as Microsoft Corp. and Vonage Inc., are due for a wake-up call. "How do you think they're going to get to customers? Through a broadband pipe. Cable companies have them. We have them," said Ed Whitacre in a BusinessWeek Online interview. "What they would like to do is use my pipes for free. I ain't going to let them do that." He argued that because SBC and others have invested to build high- speed networks, they are due a return. "There's going to have to be some mechanism for these people ... to pay for the portion they're using. Why should they be allowed to use my pipes?" He offered no details how his idea could be accomplished. For an Internet company to "expect to use these pipes free is nuts!" Whitacre added for good measure. http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B5A606A5A%2D18D7% 2D4FC9%2DA65C%2DC7317BC7E1CB%7D&siteid=mktw& -- Frutex esse delendus. ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as robertslee () verizon net To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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