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by stevenh
3919 days ago
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ISPs should be legally required to pay a fixed percentage of their profits per subscriber to the owners of the sites that those subscribers visited. No one seems to have a problem with 70/30 these days, so how about that? The 70% of former ISP profits could instead be distributed in a fair way to site owners based on total time the user spent interacting with their site in the frontmost tab, as calculated in an agreed-upon manner by all the major browser vendors. It would also be auditable by the site owners, because they could run their own page activity analytics and see whether they match up with the level of activity claimed by the detection built into the browsers. |
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1) Given that actual -non-maintenance- capex on the networks of the major ISPs appears to have been practically zero for decades, I suspect that the major ISPs will claim (and have the paperwork -however legitimate- [0] to back it up) that their per-customer profits are near-zero or negative.
2) Good ISPs are run like good utilities: any actual profits are either invested in the network, or returned to customers in one way or another. [1] This means that good ISPs actually have a near-zero per-customer profit.
So, all you're going to do with this plan is:
* Raise the -already high- barrier to entry for independent ISPs.
* Make a lot of paperwork.
* Make a lot of DPI hardware vendors very happy.
Noone will get more money, except for the DPI folks. :)
[0] Hollywood Accounting, anyone?
[1] Either through rate reductions, or one-off credits in a billing period.