ISP: File swappers pay extra

[Adam L. Beberg]

On Sat, 18 May 2002, Tom wrote:

> On Fri, 17 May 2002, Adam L. Beberg wrote:
>
> --]peer-to-peer file-swapping services. This rules out popular but
> --]bandwidth-hungry applications such as Kazaa and Morpheus, which allow users
> --]to share MP3 files.
>
>
> Who cares....usenet and ftp is where the bounty is at.
>
> So the posers pay more....laughs on them...oh yea and they are getting hit
> with spy/adware to boot...man what a bunch of rubes.

I humbly submit that the above pricing is only a proxy for per-GB pricing at
a company where the sysadmins know how to setup a firewall and one flag in
the billing system, but do not know how to setup bandwidth monitoring and
tie it into the billing system with some math.

If people route around this damage, the ISPs will adapt.

- Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
  http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/
  beberg@mithral.com