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Re: Google wants to be your Internet
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins () cisco com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:13:04 -0800
On Jan 20, 2007, at 11:55 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
the question to me is whether isps and end user borders (universities, large enterprises, ...) will learn to embrace this as opposed to fighting it; i.e. find a business model that embraces delivering what the customer wants as opposed to winging and warring against it.
I believe that it will end up becoming the norm, as it's a form of cost-shifting from content providers to NSPs and end-users - but for it to really take off, the tension between content-providers and their customers (i.e., crippling DRM) needs to be resolved.
There have been some experiments in U.S. universities over the last couple of years in which private music-sharing services have been run by the universities themselves, and the students pay a fee for access to said music. I haven't seen any studies which provide a clue as to whether or not these experiments have been successful (for some value of 'successful'); my suspicion is that crippling DRM combined with a lack of variety may have been 'features' of these systems, which is not a good test.
OTOH, emusic.com seem to be going great guns with non-DRMed .mp3s and a subscription model; perhaps (an official) P2P distribution might be a logical next step for a service of this type. I think it would be a very interesting experiment.
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Current thread:
- CDN & ISP (was: Re: Google wants to be your Internet), (continued)
- CDN & ISP (was: Re: Google wants to be your Internet) Michal Krsek (Jan 22)
- Re: CDN & ISP (was: Re: Google wants to be your Internet) Gadi Evron (Jan 22)
- Re: CDN & ISP (was: Re: Google wants to be your Internet) Mark Smith (Jan 22)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Gadi Evron (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Charlie Allom (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Travis H. (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Jeremy Chadwick (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Gadi Evron (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Jeroen Massar (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Stephen Sprunk (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Roland Dobbins (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Gadi Evron (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Alexander Harrowell (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Gadi Evron (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Mark Smith (Jan 20)