| Michael Gurstein on 2 Feb 2001 15:53:00 -0000 |
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| [Nettime-bold] Re: Are free ISPs free? Juno says users must donate processor time |
Is this a way of downloading/outplacing electricity costs (in addition to
processing cycles) and is that now a material consideration, hmmm?
Mike Gurstein
----- Original Message -----
From: Declan McCullagh <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 7:17 AM
Subject: FC: Are free ISPs free? Juno says users must donate processor time
[As one science fiction writer would say, TANSTAAFL. This is merely the
natural evolution of the market for "free" services, and is hardly
objectionable. True, it raises some privacy and security questions, but
nobody's forcing you to use Juno, and pay ISPs are hardly expensive. --Declan]
http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=01/02/01/2249220&mode=thread
How Free Are Free ISPs?
posted by vergil on Thursday February 01, @05:06PM
from the check-that-clickwrap dept.
Free ISPs have been especially hard hit by the current dot-com
downturn. Juno Online Services (recently smacked by a Temporary
Restraining Order involving a patent infringement scuffle with rival
NetZero) has developed a novel way of extracting megahertz -- and
potential megabucks -- from its subscriber base. According to a
2/1/2001 InternetNews article, Juno's "Virtual Supercomputer Network"
aims to replicate the success of SETI@home by pooling the processing
potential of its new subscribers and selling the combined
computational power. According to Juno's new service agreement, Juno's
subscribers "agree" to let Juno download, upload and run software from
their PCs, and may be required "to leave" their computers "on at all
times."
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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 15:39:20 -0500
To: [email protected]
From: Philo <[email protected]>
Subject: Fwd: [visbas-OT] Bad Juno. Sit!
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Posted to a mailing list I'm on. Forwarded with permission.
Philo
>From: "Cavanaugh, Bill" <[email protected]>
>Subject: [visbas-OT] Bad Juno. Sit!
>
>http://help.juno.com/privacy/agreement.html
>
>Read section 2.5. You, too, can be a part of a distributed computing
>project. Whether you like it or not. And fuck you very much.
>
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