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Re: State Super-DMCA Too True
From: Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 17:31:06 -0600
Dan Hollis wrote:
Using the law to defend deceptive business practices. Makes perfect sense.
It's either that or start charging the customer's what it really costs. They've been so happy to get away from that. Large networks have cut their rates based on oversell so that mid-sized networks could cut their rates, so that small networks could cut their rates, so that @home can have service for $50/mo. If @home uses full bandwidth, and each of the networks steps up to meet the bandwidth, either a) @home gets billed no less than 4 times as much or b) any network that doesn't step up pricing goes into Chapter 11. In addition, it's questionable if the overall network infrastructure can handle that amount of throughput. 1.5Mb/s to the house sounds so wonderful, but at $50/mo, it's not really feasible without a lot of oversell. People traditionally base oversell per computer connection (taken from dialup overselling).
I disagree with the method, but who am I to say someone else's business plan is faulty and they shouldn't be allowed to enforce it?
-Jack
Current thread:
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True, (continued)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Larry J. Blunk (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Avleen Vig (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Larry J. Blunk (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Jack Bates (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Larry J. Blunk (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Avleen Vig (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Dan Hollis (Mar 30)
- Remembers, Non-Op Topics Have a Home (was Re: State Super-DMCA Too True) Nathan J. Mehl (Mar 31)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Dave Howe (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Dan Hollis (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Jack Bates (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Dan Hollis (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Bruce Pinsky (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Leo Bicknell (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True David Lesher (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True William Allen Simpson (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Dan Hollis (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Bruce Pinsky (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Michael Airhart (Mar 30)