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Slater, after all, damaged England's most valuable export, cloth, by breaking international rules and building a mill with technology which he was not entitled to use.
Now the US's most valuable export, IP, is being damaged by software which the English are helping encourage, presumably to their benefit in some fashion, as Slater's Mill benefitted the early US.
The biggest benefit I can guess is the use of the greater bandwidth available near Kent in England.
The English companies apparently built the bandwidth, "embracing progress" as you call it, and not enough people required it. Why else support a project that needs more bandwidth when, I assume, most customers pay fixed rates.
And if the program is to encourage people to use more bandwidth, the only way that makes sense is if bandwidth intensive activities make more money for the bandwidth provider than they would receive from less bandwidth intensive activities.
In sum, a justification of variable pricing based on use.
The revenge on Slaterwill have one good effect from the telco/cable point of view: pricing differential based on bandwidth used will be encouraged.
That is progress. I guess. - Posted by: Anton Philidor Posted on: 02/10/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
Title s/b England's Revenge ON Samuel Slater.
Anton Philidor | 02/10/06
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Extraterritoriality
Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/10/06
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Paraphrasing the blog's author.
Anton Philidor | 02/10/06
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So you're going for extraterritoriality, Anton?
Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/10/06
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Controlling IP.
Anton Philidor | 02/11/06
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NTLs play
Fandorin | 02/13/06
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What do you think?
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