State Super-DMCA Too True

Sun Mar 30 23:31:06 UTC 2003

Dan Hollis wrote:
> 
> Using the law to defend deceptive business practices. Makes perfect sense.
> 

It's either that or start charging the customer's what it really costs. 
They've been so happy to get away from that. Large networks have cut 
their rates based on oversell so that mid-sized networks could cut their 
rates, so that small networks could cut their rates, so that @home can 
have service for $50/mo. If @home uses full bandwidth, and each of the 
networks steps up to meet the bandwidth, either a) @home gets billed no 
less than 4 times as much or b) any network that doesn't step up pricing 
goes into Chapter 11. In addition, it's questionable if the overall 
network infrastructure can handle that amount of throughput. 1.5Mb/s to 
the house sounds so wonderful, but at $50/mo, it's not really feasible 
without a lot of oversell. People traditionally base oversell per 
computer connection (taken from dialup overselling).

I disagree with the method, but who am I to say someone else's business 
plan is faulty and they shouldn't be allowed to enforce it?

-Jack