NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] Re: Net Neutrality vs. Illegal Acts
In a way, I have to agree with Brett here. Patches for my favorite computer game are distribute via a P2P client. I don't like it. I don't want to be a server talking to other gamers. I don't want to host the companies content. I paid them for the game, and I pay them a monthly fee to play. They have something like 10,000,000 subscribers. $80 for the game and expansion, plus $12 a month should mean that they can afford the bandwidth to distribute their own patches. For me though, it is the liability of needing to open up my firewall to let random people connect and possibly hack in through the Blizzard down loader. I think Blizzard is unethical in fostering off the distribution of its patches onto me. I didn't, and don't, pay money to be their data center. On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Brett Glass <nnsquad@brettglass.com> wrote: > In other words, you believe that the companies and organizations that > want to distribute their content without paying their freight have > some right to tax us or our customers? Sorry, no dice. Distributors > of content need to pay for their connections to the backbone. They > have no right to try to fob that cost off on either us or our customers. > And, again, that goes for both for-profit and non-profit enterprises. > Non-profit churches, clubs, schools, etc. have to pay their gas and > electric bills just like everyone else, and they have to pay their > bandwidth bill too. They're not entitled to take our product for free. -- -- Schlake This is my gmail account, I can also be reached at schlake@nmt.edu, if the TCC is working.