On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:08:01 -0600, somebody wrote:

> Still cuts down on bandwidth, since popular content = high bandwidth
> usage. Why should strict www users subsidize p2p traffic?

Why not go to the next step, then - why should anyone subsidize anyone 
else's traffic?  Pay by the byte.  Why should I subsidize my neighbors' 
use of Netflix on demand?  I don't use it, and I don't benefit from it.

</sarcasm>

> to do so. Just like the customer can select *any* ISP (or none, as the
> case may be).

In many localities, the customer *can't* select *any* ISP.  I have 
friends who live in very rural areas who have one option and one option 
only.  They either pay whatever the provider charges and live with the 
TOC or they go without.

*Infrastructure* is put in place so everyone can benefit.  Why do I pay 
for the water mains for another part of town (through my taxes)?  I don't 
benefit from the west side of Salt Lake City having water mains.  But my 
property tax pays for maintenance on things like that.

We are none of us an island.

Jim

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