06-03-2008, 04:25 PM
I don't know. If the infrastucture causes slowdowns for light users because of heavy users, metered paying is the most fair way to deal with it. I want fast connection when I need it, but I would rather buy physical media for video content than pirate substandard quality stuff. I am all for either metered paying or for throttling of peer-to-peer networking. I realize this is not popular standpoint, particularly among a certain low-income population, but I would be wiling to pay more for a service that caters to my needs.
Once the infrastructure is in place, video content download from legitimate sources may be the way to go, assuming that the signal has bitrate way higher than currently available on even HD (but low-quality) downloads. But someone has to pay for that ifrastructure, and charging more those people who require higher throughput (let's say 5% of customers), as opposed to spreading the cost evenly among everyone, would seem a logical way to go.
Once the infrastructure is in place, video content download from legitimate sources may be the way to go, assuming that the signal has bitrate way higher than currently available on even HD (but low-quality) downloads. But someone has to pay for that ifrastructure, and charging more those people who require higher throughput (let's say 5% of customers), as opposed to spreading the cost evenly among everyone, would seem a logical way to go.