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We also have the option of taxing ISPs and then handing that tax to creators (according to legit page views). That way that the ISPs collect the fee for creator
by Nomentatus 9y ago
We also have the option of taxing ISPs and then handing that tax to creators (according to legit page views). That way that the ISPs collect the fee for creators seamlessly. A bit like gas taxes going for highway construction in the fifties. Wouldn't it be great if newspapers paying reporters made sense again?
- woah 9y agoLegit page views?
- Nomentatus 9y agoSee "gaming the system", above. Not easily defined, because gaming.
- tengbretson 9y agoThere is no reason whatsoever that such a system would have to be implemented with taxation.
- Nomentatus 9y agoSave the absence of better alternatives, perhaps. And you have to examine all the alternatives to the present disaster for content-creators in order to pick the best one.
- toast0 9y agoThere's no reasonable way to apportion payment for content by metrics that ISPs can see that wouldn't be horribly gamed and bad for users. Pay per page view is obviously out because what is a page view? Pay per byte is inviting pages to get even bigger, no thanks. Pay per connection or DNS lookups or time of connections is all easy to game in JavaScript.
- Nomentatus 9y agoGaming is a real problem, no question. As it is for ads now. But I doubt it's insurmountable.
- icebraining 9y agoSo you want to give them a justification for tracking their users' behaviors? We're generally trying to avoid it.
- Nomentatus 9y agoI was about to say "no ID attached" but that might make fighting "gaming the system" too hard. Good point.