On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 04:11:42PM -0700, Josh Coates wrote:also - charging per byte isnt going to stop anyone from clicking on a virus infected email attachment. this is folly.
Folly? We humans are creatures of causality. When bad things happen to us, we start looking for a reason. Once we find (what we think is) that reason, we alter our behavior to stop the bad things from happening. That is why were are even here to have this conversation. When A/C bills go up, people follow a chain of deduction, and then install better insulation (akin to installing a more secure operating system) and keep their doors closed (akin to not running untrusted programs).
I think this is a great example. How many people do you know spend a lot of effort getting their house weatherproofed? or turning the light out when they leave a room? or using less water when Utah's going through a period of drought?
People don't start noticing these things until it hits their pocketbook big-time. I doubt any reasonable bandwidth pricing scheme would have a large enough per-MB cost to induce the Average Joe to stop clicking on "my_virus.pif".
It's a nice dream though :-)
~ Ross
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