and it's not exactly a fresh idea even so. steve griffin, eccentric ceo of streamcast networks, parent company of morpheus, floated this very concept last year (and I don’t think it was original then either – it’s been around). he felt a small "tax' on isps would make everyone happy, remove the legal heat and lead to a rollout of new and improved p2ps. of course he may have been more concerned with his own companies’ fortunes than anything else. still it has to be recognized that most people who order high bandwidth to get onto the file sharing networks ultimately spend more money than ever acquiring content, it’s just that the money doesn’t go to record and video stores anymore, it goes to isps.
they’re all in a big tis at midem this year. bill gates choose the conference to announce his new drm and the resignations (mottola) etc are hovering over the affair like a corpse at a wedding.
my guess is that hillary has seen the writing on the wall and that the part with her in it is ending soon.
- js.