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Should ISPs be required to share their profits with the owners of the sites their users visit? Never mind the technical hurdles; from a strictly ethical standp
by stevenh 11y ago
Should ISPs be required to share their profits with the owners of the sites their users visit?
Never mind the technical hurdles; from a strictly ethical standpoint, would it make sense? The industry seems to have settled on 70/30 being a fair split. Why shouldn't sites be able to opt in to receiving a portion of 30% of the profits coming from a particular ISP subscriber, proportional to how many times that user visited their site compared to other sites?
ISPs profit by transferring other people's copyrighted content but sharing none of that money with the content creators. Wasn't MegaUpload raided and destroyed for doing essentially the same thing?