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6 Sep 2024 07:14:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The EU and the "Telecoms Package" directives  
From: Invisible
Date: 21 Apr 2009 06:06:18
Message: <49ed9a9a$1@news.povray.org>
scott wrote:
>>  Do you understand the concept of censorship?
> 
> Yes, but when it costs a company money to provide the information, IMO 
> the company should not be forced to provide everything in existence for 
> a fixed price.  That is not censorship, that is just business.  If an 
> ISP wants to charge more for bittorrent than http, or more to access BBC 
> iPlayer because it generates 10x the bandwidth, they should be allowed 
> to, and that has *nothing* to do with censorship.

...until ISPs start deciding to charge content producers in order to 
allow access to their content. Hell, ISPs are *already* trying to charge 
the BBC for access to iPlayer because it hurts their profits.


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