And this benefits Internet users...how?  :/

 

Well since in the US at the moment and probably will spread to the rest of the first world the internet is now an utility and the way it is paid for will be changing.  The first 500KW of electricity costs 9 cents a KW, the next 300KW costs 12 cents   the next 250KW costs 16 cents and anything above that is charged 25 cents.  Thus the more you use the more you pay.  Currently most people pay a fixed amount to have unlimited access.  It is this unlimited aspect that causes the problem since it does not cost anything more to download 5 bytes or 300 terabytes. 

So under the plan I listed above your ISP will be allowed to charge (all made up numbers to demo the point) 0.1 cent per Megabyte of data from validated websites this money will be used to offset the cost of operating the utility much the same as your water or gas bills.  And 10 cents for un-validated websites.   The excess funds to be paid into a holding account for artists that can prove their content was downloaded without being paid for.  This practice has been going on for many years with the sales of blank VHS tapes, Audio Tapes and blank CD/DVD's.  Part of the price for the blank media has been sent to the content providers to help offset the cost of lost sales.

How this will help the individual internet user?  Directly it will not show, indirectly the content creators will be rewarded and thus be encouraged to make more content.  Basically this is a way to change the way people act.  If someone downloads a movie and it does not cost them anything they will do it because it saves them $20 that they will not spend at the store to buy that movie.  However if the downloaded movie will cost them $40 then they will think twice about doing the download.  Much like I use to do when I lived in England.  I could call the local CompuServe number @1200 baud and pay local telephone charges or call the number into London and connect @9600 baud, but pay the long distance charges.  Sometimes I called London because the cost was less and I knew I was going to download a big file so wanted to have the fastest transfer or if I was just browsing I would use the local number and save money that way.  

As I said in my prior post this will not stop pirate websites.  However it will dissuade people in the first world countries form using those sites.  For the most part the sales of digital content from places such as Renderoisty and RDNA is directed at people who live in first world countries.  And if you can dissuade the pirating of content in your target audience then your profits will go up. 

Is this idea perfect? No.  However it does place the burden of cost on the person mostly trying to get something for nothing.

 

 

 

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