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From: cpw%sneezy@LANL.GOV (C. Philip Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Ye Old Discard Protocol (WKS == 9)
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Date: 3 Dec 89 21:34:45 GMT
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Some time soon we will begin charging for network traffic.  It would
seem only fair to pass the charges on to the vendors for these nefarious
packets.  And, the packets are already labeled to boot!  Let's see,
1 cent a packet times 1000 hosts that receive the junk packet. That's 10 
bucks per "protected" copy for a oneshot.  Now, let's assume that 100
persons were foolish enough to buy this protected product. That's one
thousand bucks a day.  Now finally, let's assume that these products 
ship this periodically just to make sure no one is stealing their product.
(Of course this only works on a single, link level network, IP defeats
the protection scheme.)  How about once every minute to be really safe.
That comes to hmmm let's see 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day...
Could that be One million four hundred and forty thousand dollars charged
to the vendor per day for 100 copies of their software at just one site?
Hmmm, What does that come to a year?  And how many copies of PC-NFS are
there out there?

Phil Wood,  cpw@lanl.gov


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