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I never understood why ISPs think that bandwidth heavy sites ought to pay them. Surely if a user is wasting bandwidth on sites like YouTube then the ISP should
by chris_j 14y ago
I never understood why ISPs think that bandwidth heavy sites ought to pay them. Surely if a user is wasting bandwidth on sites like YouTube then the ISP should ask the user to pay for that bandwidth. Why don't they do that?
- tonfa 14y agoIf you read french, that's the thinking behind it: http://www.bfmtv.com/economie/adfreegate-revolution-is-not-a-pic-nic-416798.html http://www.bfmtv.com/economie/adfreegate-revolution-is-not-a...
- bashtoni 14y agoActually, to my mind there's a good case for sites like Youtube to ask for money from the ISPs. The ISPs users want connection to the Internet because they want great content (cat videos on youtube and the like). If Google blocked free.fr users from accessing Youtube, it's likely that many free.fr customers would go elsewhere, to another ISP that can provide them with the cat videos they crave. And Google need to pay for all the bandwidth these users eat up repeatedly watching cat videos somehow.