http://www.bajaj.com/thoughts/internet-movie-rentals Bajaj Family Fri, 07 May 2010 00:30:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.bajaj.com/thoughts/internet-movie-rentals/comment-page-1#comment-128 Suraj Yadav Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:19:31 +0000 http://www.bajaj.com/?p=61#comment-128 I dont buy your argument of not using the internet to watch movies or other leisure purposes. you were right on stating that we don't need to conserve the internet bandwidth as its not going to run out but then going to certain extent to compare the current internet scenario with the old time is neither justifiable nor reasonable. Internet is not only just for researching papers or doing banking transaction. its the same way saying people should use phone only to make emergency calls or making important calls only rather than talking to others for leisure and forwarding sms. Internet is a service and companies are providing those services because there is demand for that. there is a business model to encourage the customers to use these services. if you are talking about environmental cost for consumption of more electricity or installing more infrastructure to support these heavy usage of bandwidth then I think it is more environment friendly for people to use internet to download movies rather than taking their car out and burning car and wear and tear of machinery to rent the movies and even then what about the cost to manufacture the disk or cost and environmental impact of opening a brick and mortar shop. Bandwidth is intangible and does not add much excess cost to existing cost but your suggestion is all tangible cost and has more impact on environment and resources than what it will be on consuming more bandwidth. Going by your analogy, you are recommending people to read paper newspaper rather than electronic papers online. I dont buy your argument of not using the internet to watch movies or other leisure purposes. you were right on stating that we don’t need to conserve the internet bandwidth as its not going to run out but then going to certain extent to compare the current internet scenario with the old time is neither justifiable nor reasonable. Internet is not only just for researching papers or doing banking transaction. its the same way saying people should use phone only to make emergency calls or making important calls only rather than talking to others for leisure and forwarding sms. Internet is a service and companies are providing those services because there is demand for that. there is a business model to encourage the customers to use these services. if you are talking about environmental cost for consumption of more electricity or installing more infrastructure to support these heavy usage of bandwidth then I think it is more environment friendly for people to use internet to download movies rather than taking their car out and burning car and wear and tear of machinery to rent the movies and even then what about the cost to manufacture the disk or cost and environmental impact of opening a brick and mortar shop. Bandwidth is intangible and does not add much excess cost to existing cost but your suggestion is all tangible cost and has more impact on environment and resources than what it will be on consuming more bandwidth. Going by your analogy, you are recommending people to read paper newspaper rather than electronic papers online.

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