[IP] Re: NYTimes.com: Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 8:46 PM
To: David Farber
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Subject: Re: [IP] NYTimes.com: Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:42:23 EDT, DAVID FARBER said:

> Critics of the bandwidth limits say that metering and capping network
> use could hold back the inevitable converge

I posit that the continual attempts by the RIAA and MPAA to impose DRM
will do more to kill the idea of "convergence" than metering will.








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