"Internet needs not just regulation but also accurate and efficient metering of traffic to make it cost inefficient for piracy/human rights violators and hackers. Let charges for every packet going around in the internet be made. Many corporations will have to close down what with excessive charges for their automatic updates. Internet is heavily tilted in favor of the corporations. We(consumers) pay for viewing the ads(data costs). We have to bear all expenses no matter the benefiting party."
This was my comment in one of the sites where net neutrality was being discussed. In traditional transactions the benefiting party pays for the goods and services. In the internet it is always the user who pays no matter what he does with it. A model for charging for services where the real user pays and the real provider of service gets the money is needed.
Many users on the internet generate content and they are never credited for the data or talent they exhibit. Be it bloggers or You tube channels. A massive reorganization of the internet where charges for the network traffic are made based on the duration or volume of traffic carried could be tried. Every packet that goes around the internet should potentially be charged some money to someone just as a car pays for the toll on the roads.
Uniqueness and provenance should be the only guiding factors for people to lay claim to copyrights. Data compression alone will not reduce bandwidth requirements from network traffic and radical new ways of metering connections which is inclusive of people left out of the internet should be made to bridge the digital divide.
Internet is turning out to be a mega scam where mega corporations with ad servers and SEO companies are having a field day at the cost of the talent/copyright holder.
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