let the audience help you by handling a share of the load
So why should we help these for-profit corporations? We're supposed to just donate our bandwidth to them? Are we getting a discount in exchange or are they just gonna pocket their bandwidth cost savings at our expense?
Seeding internet archive data is one thing. Letting corporations invisibly take advantage of resources we pay for is a completely different matter.
Pass some of the savings in to the customer via lower prices and it’s a win win.
Alternatively, enabling P2P gives faster downloads. That’s rarely noticeable with streaming but people often want to download stuff for offline viewing.
If they have lower costs, some companies will exist that otherwise couldn't. Then you get options that wouldn't exist and more competition drives down prices.
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So why should we help these for-profit corporations? We're supposed to just donate our bandwidth to them? Are we getting a discount in exchange or are they just gonna pocket their bandwidth cost savings at our expense?
Seeding internet archive data is one thing. Letting corporations invisibly take advantage of resources we pay for is a completely different matter.
Pass some of the savings in to the customer via lower prices and it’s a win win.
Alternatively, enabling P2P gives faster downloads. That’s rarely noticeable with streaming but people often want to download stuff for offline viewing.
Does that ever happen? They'll probably keep prices exactly the same.
If they have lower costs, some companies will exist that otherwise couldn't. Then you get options that wouldn't exist and more competition drives down prices.
It happens constantly in IT, look at CDN prices per GB over time for example.
It’s only the extreme prevalence of monopolies and free services that confuses the issue.