Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web
by jamesrcole on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @08:50AM
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Say there are three people living together in a share house/unit, all sharing the one internet connection. There'd have to be a way to deal with cases like this.
I once thought that ISPs should pay for all content, then pass the bill onto users + costs-and-profit. I guess there would need to be separate standardized rates for video, audio, and text, but that creates a ton of regulatory and technical issues. Not the least of which is people don't want to pay. It would be like music licensing essentially, and look how that played out.
So just make it all voluntary like patreon, but integrated into my ISP billing, and give me an app/browser add-on to make payments and track my spending.