The only redeeming feature of the proposal is establishing that people are prepared to pay USD$29 per month (instead of USD$30) for access to IPv6. "tens of thousands of people are paying $30/month to access these videos" At least then we have quantified what the market is prepared to pay. Prior to that, it's a lot of heat and light and noise. So, lets assume the average residential consumer of this content can spell IPv6. And they ask for it. And let's assume they're prepared to pay $50 NZD for "broadband" IPv4 connection. And they ring up and ask for the V6 thing. And you tell them it's ~$40 NZD extra (conversion rates kids), plus they may need to spend money V6'ing themselves. If mass market forked out nearly twice what they're paying now, I think NZ would be V6 enabled by the end of the year. But sadly I suspect that neither of the above is likely to be true. jamie On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 13:15 +1200, Simon Lyall wrote:
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Nathan Ward wrote:
Unfortunately, the mentioned content is plentiful enough (both large numbers of discrete items, and replicated large numbers of times) in other places that people seeking it out are unlikely to jump through hoops in order to access this particular instance of it.
I'm not sure this is the case. Many people seem to find it hard enough to get the content now that they are prepared to pay significant amounts of money to obtain it.
Also while complaining to their ISP that a certain site doesn't work is harder when it hosts that sort of content, it doesn't stop some people.
It's been done before with BitTorrent:
"In the summer of 2002, Cohen collected free p..nography to lure beta testers to use the program" (wikipedia:Bram_Cohen) [my dots]