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At Friday, Paul A Vixie wrote: >At the WIPO meeting in December 1996, the consensus was that mirroring >ran afoul of copyright and license issues, and that caching did not. >Caching was deemed an automated (no human intervention required) response >to demanded traffic, and mirroring was considered a proactive human act. > Another interesting question than the intellectual property issue, is the question of what a NSP/ISP might do with the statistics on proxy traffic -- the numbers on hits, bytes, etc -- and the usage profiles of individuals using the proxy. I think it is only a matter of time and opportunity before some ISPs would begin to exploit revenue opportunities associated with this new gatekeeping role, should it develop. --Kent
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