Re: [SLUG] Florida's Super-DMCA bill

From: Mike Manchester (mchester@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 07:07:58 EST


So charge me by the bandwidth. I'm sure glad the water company doesn't
charge me by the number of sinks I have.
Mike M.

On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 20:09, steve wrote:
> On Monday 31 March 2003 11:00, Derek Glidden wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 18:28, steve wrote:
> > > It infact allows for legal use these devices of if you are
> > > "authorized" or providing a service. I forget the exact wording
> > > on
> >
> > Yep, and anyone want to put money down on how quickly the cable
> > ISPs will start charging much more for the cable internet service
> > that "authorizes" you to run a firewall?
> >
> > Or perhaps they won't authorize any end-user and instead will
> > force users to "license" a firewall that's located at and run by
> > the cable ISP itself. For much more money of course.
>
> So alarmist... They have no interest in those services. They simply
> want to provide network access. They don't block anything just ask
> to be paid for service deliverd.
>
> --
>
> Steve
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