On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Sean Donelan wrote: > > Is there some licensing body that surveys 99 out of 100 people to > decide if something is "the whole internet?" That licensing body > would then have the power to order ISPs to carry just those web
that seems like a tough challenge... > sites? If 99 out of 100 people only access the top 20 or so web > sites, is that the "whole Internet" for them, because they think the > web is the Internet? Would this be "must carry" for broadcast television > stations that must be carried for free by cable systems? Would the Wow, and cable/dsl folks could stop carrying other 'end system' (consumer) folks... it'd really cut down on P2P traffic problems I bet! Also, who's going to complain since '99.9% of all P2P is illegal' anyway? (see someone else's study about how 'all p2p is illegal', probably mpaa or riaa sponsored)