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That's interesting brazzy, but I think we would be surprised with the results of such a project. For example, if I were a user and this was available to me, I w

That's interesting brazzy, but I think we would be surprised with the results of such a project. For example, if I were a user and this was available to me, I would have multiple ISP accounts and boxes. I imagine many others would do the same. I also think, an interesting side-effect would be a reduction in piracy. The way to cure piracy is not to sue everybody that pirates, the way to do it is to create an explicit opportunity cost for your time/bandwidth/storage. If I know that for every GB I pirate, I lose $1/month (or whatever the figure turns out to be) that changes my decision making process. So I figure that yes, along the limit (i.e. approaching infinity), assuming no one pirates and all customers are a CDN peer, the ISPs might not be profitable. But, I think we would see some very interesting social behavior changes before then, that the ISPs might be able to benefit from.

brazzy 17y ago
ISPs would lose money on those accounts at current rates, so they'd have to make them so expensive that the user pays more money for bandwidth than he gets from the CDN. Would you have multiple ISP accounts paying perhaps $20 from the CDN when they cost you $400 each? Because that's how much they'd have to cost based on what little percentage of the bandwidth price the user gets in that spreadsheet. As for the anti-piracy argument, Have you actually looked at the numbers? It assumes $0.02 per GB bandwidth fee to the user - I doubt many people pirate movies they consider worth less thant 2 cents. And no, jacking up the bandwidth fee would not change the picture much. The point is that CDNs are already paying ISPs for bandwidth. There is no money to be made paying users, who get their bandwidth from ISPs, period. And storage fees would have to be relative to available bandwidth because 2TB storage on a 1MBit line is worth much less to the CDN than on a 100Mbit line.

brazzy 17y ago

ISPs would lose money on those accounts at current rates, so they'd have to make them so expensive that the user pays more money for bandwidth than he gets from the CDN. Would you have multiple ISP accounts paying perhaps $20 from the CDN when they cost you $400 each? Because that's how much they'd have to cost based on what little percentage of the bandwidth price the user gets in that spreadsheet. As for the anti-piracy argument, Have you actually looked at the numbers? It assumes $0.02 per GB bandwidth fee to the user - I doubt many people pirate movies they consider worth less thant 2 cents. And no, jacking up the bandwidth fee would not change the picture much. The point is that CDNs are already paying ISPs for bandwidth. There is no money to be made paying users, who get their bandwidth from ISPs, period. And storage fees would have to be relative to available bandwidth because 2TB storage on a 1MBit line is worth much less to the CDN than on a 100Mbit line.