Re: Paying for bandwidth

From: Alex Tillman <alex_at_webtillman.com>
Date: Fri 26 Apr 2002 23:19:15 -0600

Pesach Lattin wrote: _Give me a break. You gotta be
the only person in the whole world who actually thinks
this. The rest of your questions (about advertising
becoming illegal because it steals bandwidth) are
kinda moot, because this will never happen. As long as
we have a free market economy, no one will charge _per
mile_ on the internet._

Correct me if I_m wrong, but don_t mobile phone and
internet-enabled PDA_s charge for internet and email
access by the amount downloaded (or _per mile_ as you
put it.)? So apparently he is not the "only one" who
thinks this could happen, because it already does.
Oddly enough, this same legal argument has been made
successfully about mass fax ads, and there are now
laws on the books of most states that prohibit
unsolicited faxes because they cost the recipient (in
paper and toner), although they are hardly enforced.





Received on Sat Apr 27 2002 - 00:19:15 CDT