Re: Free-services lead to increased RAM and CPU requirements

[John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>]

rhkramer writes:
> Investigations started in the US congress (and, iirc, in the EC
> counterparts) may lead to de-monopolizing some of those services.

If you are referring to the efforts to gut the DMCA "safe harbor"
provisions that will have the opposite effect.  Same for the efforts to
impose Chinese-style "voluntary" censorship.  These sorts of things
impose large costs which do not scale with the size of the organization.
This will lead to an oligopoly of a few very large heavily regulated
organizations, leading to calls for even more regulation.
-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA