America's biggest content providers could face a toll to enter India cyberspace, if plans mooted by the Indian ISP trade association bear fruit.
Although the Internet Service Providers Association of India is split on the issue, several of the larger ISPs want to block access to eBay, MSN or Yahoo! unless the prociders pay a toll.
"In order to increase revenue streams …we should ask [the portals] to pay if they want traffic on their sites from India," reports the
Hindustani Times.
Traditional bricks and mortar producers have to sweeten the distribution channels, so why not MSN? And with foreign steel companies now paying an additional tariff to enter the US market, isn't this a simple reciprocation?
Indian netizens faced with the ban would have to resort to cunning methods to circumvent the block. With ISPs doing the barring, access to proxy servers could be difficult. Perhaps this provides an unexpected spur for the splendid
Peek-A-Booty browser, designed to circumvent government censorship. ®
Dummies. They don't want an internet. They want an intranet. It's their loss not ours.
ROTFL! That is like me suing the city for 10 million dollars or I will not allow my driveway to be attached to the city streets!
Thanks for the post.
This from the same country that pirates software, movies, records, and in fact any technology worth stealing or copying - "Pirated software up for grabs:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/724115/posts
What more can I say ...from the same people that brought us the Thuggie cult ("Thugs").
Not that the rest of Asia is much better - "China to build own version of Windows 98":
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/718861/posts
So why do our corporations outsource so much software to them? Even many of our government contractors like EDS use them, what an incredible security risk!
Save a few bucks on programming costs - lose the whole project to piracy. This practice is going to have a serious security and economic downside. Coming soon to a theater near you!