04-25-2014, 08:50 PM
Help me out with this. I can't see any alternative to paid channels.
As long as the Net stays open, won't it inevitably succumb to the tragedy of the commons? -- Where some people suck up so much bandwidth that everyone else suffers?
I'm thinking that, with a free Internet, people will be livecasting millions of aimless videocams (and other sorts of byte-eaters), eventually clotting the bandwidth so that, when you or I need to do something important, like make a bank deposit, we have to wait, and wait, and wait till there's an opening.
As the band-hogs suck up more and more bandwidth, can you see any way to avoid WANTING a paid channel you can always rely on to be available when you need bandwidth?
What's your thinking on this?
As long as the Net stays open, won't it inevitably succumb to the tragedy of the commons? -- Where some people suck up so much bandwidth that everyone else suffers?
I'm thinking that, with a free Internet, people will be livecasting millions of aimless videocams (and other sorts of byte-eaters), eventually clotting the bandwidth so that, when you or I need to do something important, like make a bank deposit, we have to wait, and wait, and wait till there's an opening.
As the band-hogs suck up more and more bandwidth, can you see any way to avoid WANTING a paid channel you can always rely on to be available when you need bandwidth?
What's your thinking on this?