Re:AWS to Begin Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses
by Sebguer on Friday August 04, 2023 @12:10AM
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You've read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress too many times, and taken away the wrong lessons.
Re:AWS to Begin Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses
by BenjiWiebe on Friday August 04, 2023 @09:15PM
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IP addresses aren't a physical object with a cost to produce them.
No one is saying that maintaining the fiber optics and routers should be free though, that's why we pay ISPs.
just like the air is supposed to be free!
In reality, nothing can be free. The cost was initially not being paid for, because initially there's just quite a bit of addresses, and there wouldnt have been any quarrels.
I maintain that the world is being polluted because things aren't free. Imagine if every cubic inch of air, water and land is owned. You would not be allowed to pollute! You'd pay for your use of it!