No Rock And Roll Fun

ALL THIS FILE-SHARING ISN'T MAKING US RICH: Nice to see that UK ISPs are bleating about people using the internet for file sharing - which is a little bit like butchers complaining about meat-eaters pestering them for steaks and chops. Since any accessing of the internet is going to involve file-swapping of one sort or another - unless the good people at Freeserve actually want us to restrict ourselves to reading old all-text pages (maybe they should send out CDs with Mosaic, rather than Explorer on?) - and since the adverts for the ISPs encourage us to sign up with them generally depict people doing groovy things online, rather than just peeking into Google's usenet archive, what exactly do they expect to happen? "It's eating away at our margins" they complain, to which the response must be: well, you've buggered your businessplan - is that our fault? Recalculate your price point and stop blubbing, for crying out loud.
The BBC report is amusing, because it floats the idea that maybe people should be charged for the bandwidth they use - hey, maybe metered internet time could be the future? Like the way unmetered internet time was meant to be when they started to offer it?
Anyway, at the end of the piece is a hint that maybe Napster isn't quite totally dead yet - it seems a company wants to buy the name for a porn service. It doesn't say if they plan to use it for legitimate or copyright-busting porn, though.