KoreanOverlord [#4]
Your analogy was so terrible I will have to educate you on a subject matter I read up upon 2 hours ago.
There's 3 major entities involved, 1 is the ISP, 2 is the CP (content provider, or big tech), and 3 is the internet user.
ISP provides bandwith to both CP and internet users. Users use it to download movies. CP use it to host and upload the movies. But because of the increase in network traffic from video streaming, ISPs need to foot the bill from additional bandwith costs. Users pay ISP more to partially cover this cost. CP does not pay ISP more.
So KR government (and soon EU) is asking CP to pay for their share of the network usage fee. But ofc these companies will cry and challenge this because it hurts their bottom line. They will give out excuses like "oh but we already invest millions to save money in network infrastructure" but then why are you so scared of legislation that asks you to pay your part?
Japanese car manufactures selling more cars will increase traffic, citizens pay road costs through taxes, should the government get the car manufactures so pay for the roads since their product increases the cost of road repair?
I don't see how the analogy doesn't work? Cars and CP both have a product that increases costs for another entity, the other entity wants cars/CP to pay their costs?
ISP's and CP are no different, both are companies trying to get the other to pay for infrastructure to decrease cost.
how would this be any better for the average consumer, ISP prices go down while netflix, ect goes up so at the end of the day prices are just shifted around. US get hurt since they are net exporter in bandwidth products while net imports of bandwidth products are better off. This helps korea at the expense of US