Well, there are certain logical limits.
Once any given corporation has full rights to your life, thoughts, gene sequence, actions, future, past, biological derivations, body parts, and anything which can be intuited, inducted or deducted from any of the information about any of these things, then there's not much more for them to take.
Except, bandwidth is only scarce for brief periods when many people are trying to use it at the same time. Aside from that, bandwidth is essentially limitless, the only real limiting factor being throughput speed.
A. The meters will probably be broken or inaccurate in some way--and likely in a way which favor the ISPs, which means they'll be broken by design.
B. Most people cannot figure percentages either. I've seen servers pissed about getting a $3 tip on a $10 order--I asked how much a 20% tip would have been and got a (serious!) answer of $5.
The correct response to this whole schlock is to treat internet like what it is, a utility. Meter and charge by amount used, just like water, electric, natural gas, what-have-you.
A 24 minute anime episode on Netflix mobile uses about 232 megabytes of bandwidth. If you have a 2-Gig cap (like I have despite having signed a contract that says "unlimited" data) then you can watch 8 or 9 episodes before hitting your mobile data cap.
Thank you, AC, for you rational and well thought out response to the topic at hand rather than simply spewing formulaic ad hominem. It is refreshing to see some good trolling for a change of pace.
So they can later bend their friends and the laws in their favor.
Hadn't you heard about that stupid "secure BIOS" bullshit Microsoft was trying to pull? "Secure" in this instance means only Microsoft products are allowed.
They hate sharing and open-source (except when they're copying the features from various Linux distros for their next Windows version) and want control. Why wouldn't Microsoft go along with this??
Had seen some of this previously, and it appears to in some ways be a move by the pharmaceutical industry to maintain their exclusive production/distribution and 1000% to 2800% markup--which is a nice fat profit margin.
How about:
Every IP maintained job displaces 4 other possible open-source jobs...
And: 70% of all jobs could give a shit about Imaginary Property, most of them are barely aware of what it all means and would actually be horrified if they had a real idea of how much bullshit it could rain down on their heads.
"The many features and advantages of the present invention are apparent from the written description, and thus, it is intended by the appended claims to cover all such features and advantages of the invention. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the invention to the exact construction and operation as illustrated and described. Hence, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to as falling within the scope of the invention."
I take it "write it vague enough to sue everybody" was too concise?
Have you thought about getting yourself a name? I'm thinking: On-the-spot-troll (or something to that effect).
It's nice to see how much you're enjoying our Techdirt community, and you apparently have a fervent desire to be a contributing member, what with your witty criticisms offered up in such a timely manner...
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Once any given corporation has full rights to your life, thoughts, gene sequence, actions, future, past, biological derivations, body parts, and anything which can be intuited, inducted or deducted from any of the information about any of these things, then there's not much more for them to take.
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Except, bandwidth is only scarce for brief periods when many people are trying to use it at the same time. Aside from that, bandwidth is essentially limitless, the only real limiting factor being throughput speed.
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(There's some links, educate yourself.)
Summary: A Kilobyte is 1000 bytes, a Kibibyte is 1024 bytes. (Etcetera and so all the way up the scale.)
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Re: Nobody Needs To Know
B. Most people cannot figure percentages either. I've seen servers pissed about getting a $3 tip on a $10 order--I asked how much a 20% tip would have been and got a (serious!) answer of $5.
The correct response to this whole schlock is to treat internet like what it is, a utility. Meter and charge by amount used, just like water, electric, natural gas, what-have-you.
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Mobile Netflix
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/sarc
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Re: Microsoft Basterds...?
Hadn't you heard about that stupid "secure BIOS" bullshit Microsoft was trying to pull? "Secure" in this instance means only Microsoft products are allowed.
They hate sharing and open-source (except when they're copying the features from various Linux distros for their next Windows version) and want control. Why wouldn't Microsoft go along with this??
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Monopoly, not Go or Sorry
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Re: pish.
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When there's more money, the money is less valuable.
Conversely, when there's less money the money is more valuable.
By burning the money you would have spent while pirating you're simultaneously devaluing the "pirated" content and envaluing the total money supply.
In short: bravo!
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Re: "IP-Intensive"
Every IP maintained job displaces 4 other possible open-source jobs...
And: 70% of all jobs could give a shit about Imaginary Property, most of them are barely aware of what it all means and would actually be horrified if they had a real idea of how much bullshit it could rain down on their heads.
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I remember...
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Re: The whole thing is a joke
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Re: *SNORT*
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And, I suppose there's one to spare for you too, though you don't look all that familiar to me...
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All we need to do is sew shut the last asshole; if we're lucky, in a short while the whole chain of them will explode!
Once we clean up the shit after that we should be good to go.
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On the spot with that vitriol, I see.
Very good, have a cookie.
Have you thought about getting yourself a name? I'm thinking: On-the-spot-troll (or something to that effect).
It's nice to see how much you're enjoying our Techdirt community, and you apparently have a fervent desire to be a contributing member, what with your witty criticisms offered up in such a timely manner...
Anyhow, hope you're having a good day.
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