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See comments below.... Paul Vixie wrote: > > I don't know what he was saying, but I'll say something like it: gatekeeper, > wuarchive, cdrom.com, and other archives of free stuff are going to have to > do some kind of micropayment scheme -- charge for downloads in other words -- > in order to pay their own costs to their providers, in order that those > providers are able to pay THEIR costs, in transit they buy or in glass they > lease or whatever. > I hate to ask, but are *you* buying into the host transmit charges? As opposed to client request fee's? I am *not* primarily a hosting site, but I don't *even* like that concept. :\ (Not that anyone really cares about my *opinion*, I just felt a need :) CDROM.COM could run PASV, and the "requester" would pay for BW. (DS0m/s ;) Hardly an unfair request. Now, if CDROM.COM has enough sponsers, they could allow traditional FTP... (Changes the origin, and hence fee's) I could even imagine the JAVA app, that sets up the download, popping up a little box that updates a small AD,( oh.. say every 30 seconds...) while you download via FTP from the other window... Of course, that might hurt standard FTP programs, (or *help* them ;) "This download brought to you by....." "Click here for a great deal on .... " Just letting my imagination flow, pardon any obvious shortcomings.. > The Internet backbone's growth has been all about barriers to entry and in > special deals. People have been buying their provisioning at flat rate or > with other subsidies, and reselling it at variable rates to folks who came > later or otherwise didn't have access to, or knowledge of, the special deals > of the pioneers. Eventually these special deals run out of time, or run out > of bandwidth, and a true (cost-driven) market economy is developing. > > What we're seeing now is just SO inevitable. > -- > Paul Vixie > La Honda, CA "Many NANOG members have been around > <[email protected]> longer than most." --Jim Fleming > pacbell!vixie!paul (An H.323 GateKeeper for the IPv8 Network)
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