Uh, I didn't see that coming. 8Gbps is deployed on most of the territory, that's potentially 5.5 cents/s, or about 200€/hour. Probably 1 or 2 orders of magnitude too high to be painless.
Given that the content providers (CDNs) are targeted, that would incentivize p2p. P2P networks are already employed by Microsoft to distribute updates, for instance.
What about CDNs? The article mention Valve, but their traffic comes from Akamai.
In any case, I would be surprised if this law ends up being adopted.
Given that the content providers (CDNs) are targeted, that would incentivize p2p. P2P networks are already employed by Microsoft to distribute updates, for instance.
What about CDNs? The article mention Valve, but their traffic comes from Akamai.
In any case, I would be surprised if this law ends up being adopted.