[LINK] ABC seeks law ensuring free content on broadband

[Adrian Chadd]

Is that -any- publicly funded content? What about community funded
content? What about non-profit funded content, etc?

Sounds like a fun line to blur. :)


Adrian

On Mon, Sep 07, 2009, David Boxall wrote:
> Given that some ISP's evidently can't add up: 
> <http://david.boxall.id.au/bluemaxx/timeline.html#20090820>, how are 
> they going to cope with not charging for bandwidth to access some content?
> 
> <http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26035238-7582,00.html>
> >
> > *THE ABC has called on the federal government to pass laws ensuring 
> > consumers won't have to pay to access any publicly funded content 
> > carried on the planned national broadband network, a measure that 
> > would give it a huge advantage over its commercial rivals.*
> >
> > As the federal government would contribute a large share of the cost 
> > of building the network and keep a major stake in it for at least five 
> > years, the NBN company should be legislatively obliged to carry the 
> > ABC's online media content and other public services for free, ABC 
> > managing director Mark Scott said in a recent submission on regulating 
> > the new network.
> >
> ...
> > Australia's two big internet providers, Telstra and Optus, oppose 
> > lifting download charges for publicly funded internet content, which 
> > they see as threatening their own walled-garden content offerings.
> ...
>  
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