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Nonsense. If they are few actor, they can always make more re less implicit arrangements. The internet providers fucked up the internet already, you just don't
by norswap 16y ago
Nonsense. If they are few actor, they can always make more re less implicit arrangements.
The internet providers fucked up the internet already, you just don't realize it. Neither does a lot of people here, cheering about "the cloud". Instead we could live in a p2p wonderland, where each node would be responsible for it's own data. It would be much more efficient money and energy-wise, and it would totally brush the privacy concerns away. What makes it impossible ? Asymmetric bandwidth rates which are 10 times greater for download than for upload.
Moreover, as someone stated elsewhere, it is preferable to have no rules but internet providers that fear sanctions would they discriminate traffic, than to have rules that explicitly allow discrimination.
- tkahn6 16y agoInstead we could live in a p2p wonderland, where each node would be responsible for it's own data. What does this mean? How would I, for instance, retrieve a Wikipedia page?
- norswap 16y agoNot everything could work as peer to peer (wikipedia as a mostly "plain old website" for instance), but many things could. Facebook and for that matter every web app who mostly acts upon data linked to an user account. Even backup/file hosting could work - but you have to commit a part of your bandwidth to provide service to other users, and bandwidth is limited by ISPs (there are probably good reasons for this tough). The approach could also be expanded in online games, tough we actually see things moving the other way around : maps you have to get from battle.net servers, ...