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Stolpe | 10 years ago

It's noble and all, but I think that the same decision would be made even if only business aspects were taken into account. Imagine being "that one ISP where you cannot download movies". They would probably loose many current and potential customers by having that stamp, even among customers that do not illegally download any movies at all.

I'm Swedish myself and I have Bahnhof as my ISP. They are a company which builds much of their image on issues such as integrity and privacy, and that image is what got me to choose them over other options which were slightly(!) more expensive. So, all the sudden you have a company that gets a lot of appreciation from the public, and it's not like they are spending more money on their infrastructure just because they do everything they can to avoid tapping their customers' traffic.

This seems like a no-brainer decision, which is why I find it hard to understand why it's not like this everywhere.

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pc86|10 years ago

> They would probably loose many current and potential customers by having that stamp, even among customers that do not illegally download any movies at all.

I think you are grossly overestimating the amount of thought the general public puts into which ISP it uses (when it has a choice).