interesting discussion about how to bring more parts of growing industry to pay their share for universal services.

Will the FCC Impose Fees on Smart Grid Connections? somewhere in tweetland titled - again - "killing" innovation, but that needs yet to be seen.

another twist to the carrier stories and how they follow their own track to gain control again.

to the right (seen from europe) boingboing points to a similar story done by the record industry.

copyright and innovation: the untold story

anyhow, a lot has been said over the last years about copyright. not always to the amusement of industry: there is the us: gao report 2010, and well, the oecd paper: magnitute of counterfeiting and piracy of tangible products, 2009 about numbers and no there are no real numbers for intellectual property piracy.

while to the left, geoff huston adds yet another piece to the plot: one might call it "how slow telcos tick" – or play their business as usual.

What is this "new sustainable economic model for the Internet"? What sustainable model is so unsustainable that it is only achievable through a path of regulatory intervention and the imposition of ongoing regulatory measures within the supply chains of carriage and content services for the Internet? | carriage vs. content

... and one wants to add: they got it all nearly for free. at least users got into the net without regulations, but a code of conduct by the internetworking community. however you had to ignore the official ones. at that time the end of monopolies was near, and the ppts earned a s* load of money, as one had to pay for their access per minute bundles with the usual local telephone rate. flat-fee was not invented in the early days of the '90s ...

actually the argument from the content industry,

"Access is essentially reselling our content, but not paying for it. This is theft! You owe us money!"

is as stupid as telling the paper industry that they need to pay for content, as their plane paper doesn't have enough value without it add transport industry, stores, sales people, ... all involved in the supply chain. this is also true vice versa.