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Re: Crackdowns don't slow Internet piracy

  • From: Patrick W Gilmore
  • Date: Thu Jul 15 01:14:28 2004 
On Jul 15, 2004, at 12:36 AM, Michel Py wrote:


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.
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.

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?

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TTFN,
patrick