North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Crackdowns don't slow Internet piracy
On Jul 15, 2004, at 12:36 AM, Michel Py wrote: I don't care if you are Microsoft, $10MM a year is a large enough sum that the company should not spend it if the company can avoid spending it.Fergie (Paul Ferguson) "The popularity of file-sharing is costing the largest Internet service providers $10 million per year each in bandwidth and network maintenance costs, CacheLogic said."$10 million a year for the largest ISPs is a drop in the sea; _if_ the figure is accurate (sounds reasonable to me) what's the point anyway? The largest ISPs serve directly or indirectly millions of users that each pay $20/mo which is $240/yr, 10 million bucks a year is nothing. The hard part is the caveat. If you block customers from sharing music on your network, will you still have customers? If not, then maybe the $10MM is COGS? -- TTFN, patrick
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