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When you put something out in the world for free, the expectation is that it is free. Trying to charge selectively to only certain companies is discrimination
by bcheung 7y ago
When you put something out in the world for free, the expectation is that it is free. Trying to charge selectively to only certain companies is discrimination and violates the spirit of net neutrality.
- quaquaqua1 7y agoNot always true. I recently heard a famous band's song playing in the lobby of a hospital. I can listen to this music freely on Youtube (or torrenting) from the same band. But I think that in the hospital application of this music, it is probably written somewhere that the hospital needs to pay the band a licensing fee for "commercial use".
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- immawizard 7y agoThey put it out for free because they make money on ads. Publishers don't mind Google reading the the content on their page, but don't like Google republishing their content on search results page and keeping the ad revenue. This has nothing to do with net neutrality.