‘Agile billing’ or, ‘Shaft File Sharers’
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “Man, imagine how rich you would be if you got just one penny every time someone in the world opened their web browser.”
No kidding!
That’s a clip from a Reader’s Write inspired, probably, by “Sandvine is arguing that economics (’agile billing’) would be a ‘nearly utopian’ essentially price per byte,” a CIPPIC tweet # 57 from Day I of the CRTC net neutrality hearing.
Agile billing?
You have to love these euphemisms privacy pirates such as Sandvine keeping coughing up as covers for their latest Utopian ’shaft file sharers’ idea.
Whenever you see a corporate product with ‘fair’ in the name, you can be 100% sure it’ll be the exact opposite, p2pnet posted a little less than a year ago.
We went on »»»
Apple’s FairPlay DRM is a shining example, and now ace Canadian digital restrictions management company Sandvine has come out with a product sure to make the likes of Bell Canada and Rogers glow.
Sandvine, which coined the notable phrase ‘policy management,’ is now touting Sandvine FairShare to, “enhance its suite of Traffic Optimization solutions”.
For ‘Traffic Optimization’ read bandwidth throttling, and Sandvine’s new consumer control technology ‘empowers’ ISPs, enabling, “fair usage in the shared access network” with “advanced techniques” to “ensure equitable allocation of network resources during periods of congestion,” it says.
And it’s “fully application-agnostic,” meaning BitTorrent isn’t the only P2P file sharing application it’ll target.
Now, “If my ISP started charging per byte, I’d likely stop using paid services,” says the Reader’s Write cited in the first line, adding »»»
Movie rentals via my Xbox 360 is one example. No sense paying for something twice (once for the rental and a second for the bandwidth used). No more listening to internet radio too. I would really have to start using a bandwidth monitor and make sure everything is read from a cached source whenever possible to keep from paying repeatedly for multiple refreshes of the same page. Better make my home page blank just to be sure I’m not being charged every time I launch my web browser.
Not sure what I’d do about e-mail seeing as my ISP uses IMAP and that requires downloading the full message (pictures and all) every time it is read. Spam will start costing me money. I’d also have to turn off automatic updates I guess.
There is a ton of bandwidth leakage from Windows and many of the programs installed that would need to be shored up. I suppose a software firewall set to block all except for when I’m surfing would help. Wow, I can really see why ISP’s would like to do this type of billing. It would allow them to nickel and dime you to death.
I could see an ISP begin to offer it’s own alternatives exempt from charge-per-byte billing (the aforementioned movie rentals for example). All part of their master plan to kill off the competition and take it’s place I’ll bet. I foresee DPI being used to help further that goal.
“Make things like Bittorrent suck so bad you have no choice but to use ISP approved services,” adds the commment poster.
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July 7th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Perhaps this is Canada’s way of dealing with pressure from the **AA groups in the US?
By threatening privacy, they hope to deter the World’s #1 File Sharing Nation (costing the **AA groups $1 000 000 every picosecond) from further downloading (even legal purchases as BBC uses BitTorrent technology, iTunes Canada would be gone, free stuff from myspace, etc…) or streaming.
That’s right, kill the access to content and you don’t need to change your business models. Get this to work in a “pirate haven” like Canada and they can easily push it with fear through the US and then the rest of the world will follow.
No ISP will have to worry about traffic shaping because everyone will be the mindless sheep corporations want.
Yeah, I don’t think so!
Then again, apparently we P2PNet readers need to be open minded to be insulted (Sorry Thomas but you cast way too many insults after requesting to be open minded, that’s not cool and you will be flamed for it – I gave you the benefit of the doubt and read on and you lost a lot of my respect you once had) and we’re just first graders who know nothing.
July 7th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Tom = credibility zero
July 7th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
“Not sure what I’d do about e-mail seeing as my ISP uses IMAP and that requires downloading the full message (pictures and all) every time it is read.”
You switch back to POP and configure your mail client to skip large messages (downloading first few lines only). Like in the old days.
July 7th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
These guys over at Sandvine and Juniper are just a bunch of corporate douchebags who could care less about the rights of Canadians over the almighty corporate dollar! They have no moral “fibre” and the same goes for the CEOs at Bell and the rest of our Telco/ISP oligarchy collusion complex!