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Re: Music industry proposes a piracy surcharge on ISPs
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:58:57 -0700
________________________________________ From: Fred von Lohmann [iphone () vonlohmann com] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 10:45 PM To: Brett Glass Cc: Fred von Lohmann; David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Music industry proposes a piracy surcharge on ISPs Brett, thst's the advantage of a voluntary collective licensing system--no one is forced to offer it to their customers (nor does this force ISPs to carry P2P traffic-that's a different fight). So I suspect this is just one more way that ISPs will compete. Verizon has made it clear that it does not fear P2P traffic, both because they've got the superior FIOS network and because they can afford new caching technologies. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 17, 2008, at 8:01 PM, Brett Glass <brett () lariat net> wrote:
Fred: The problem with the EFF's solution is that it does not address the impact of P2P on ISPs, as illustrated in the slides at http://www.brettglass.com/ITIF/pg9.html and http://www.brettglass.com/ITIF/pg10.html No rational ISP would accept any "solution" which did not eliminate the crippling, uncompensated costs of P2P. Our ISP, in particular, intends to block it until and unless we are compensated for these costs, and would consider any attempt to force us to allow P2P an unconstitutional "taking" of our network resources. --Brett Glass P.S. -- We also believe that Brad Templeton, as a board member of BitTorrent, Inc., has an irreconcilable conflict of interest and should not be commenting to the public or the press on behalf of the EFF on this issue.
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