Re: Crackdowns don't slow Internet piracy

2004-07-15 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:27:01PM -0700, Michel Py wrote: > > That's what I meant, thanks for rephrasing. $10M a year is definitely > something that any size company will try to save; I remember posting > here not that long ago that a $500k line card is definitely something I > do not buy withou

RE: Crackdowns don't slow Internet piracy

2004-07-14 Thread Michel Py
>>> Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: >>> "The popularity of file-sharing is costing the largest >>> Internet service providers $10 million per year each >>> in bandwidth and network maintenance costs, CacheLogic >>> said." >> Michel Py wrote: >> $10 million a year for the largest ISPs is a drop in t

Re: Crackdowns don't slow Internet piracy

2004-07-14 Thread Patrick W Gilmore
On Jul 15, 2004, at 12:36 AM, Michel Py wrote: Fergie (Paul Ferguson) "The popularity of file-sharing is costing the largest Internet service providers $10 million per year each in bandwidth and network maintenance costs, CacheLogic said." $10 million a year for the largest ISPs is a drop in the se

RE: Crackdowns don't slow Internet piracy

2004-07-14 Thread Michel Py
> Fergie (Paul Ferguson) > "The popularity of file-sharing is costing the largest > Internet service providers $10 million per year each > in bandwidth and network maintenance costs, CacheLogic > said." $10 million a year for the largest ISPs is a drop in the sea; _if_ the figure is accurate (sou

Re: Fwd: Crackdowns don't slow Internet piracy

2004-07-14 Thread Petri Helenius
Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: I was wondering if the NANOG readership-at-large had any experiences in this regard, concerning any of these statements, since I couldn't find anything of any real technical substance on CacheLogic's web page. If your aggregate traffic is for example 10Gbps and you

Fwd: Crackdowns don't slow Internet piracy

2004-07-14 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
This is an interesting article -- not necessarily off-topic, given snippets such as: "The popularity of file-sharing is costing the largest Internet service providers $10 million per year each in bandwidth and network maintenance costs, CacheLogic said." and "It estimates Internet users