O'Reilly Network: Code + Law: An Interview with Lawrence Lessig [Jan. 29, 2001]
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Has anyone tried a slingshot subscription yet? It's a US-based ISP providing anonymous internet access (anonymous because it's pre-paid...no credit card required, you buy a cd from a store, use an enclosed code for access, and get 600 local dial-up minutes [or 200 ld minutes]). It's being sold at Staples and Compusa. Their URL is www.slingshot.com. I really like this idea of 'anonymous' dial-up access...very similar to pre-paid isp access ideas in europe. Are these business models going to survive long enough to invest my time/hassle to try this out? I know AOL, Earthlink, MSN, etc. rely heavily on knowing a little about their customers to drive higher CPM revenues (difficult to make money on sub revenues only). phillip
whoa, they aren't anonymous at all! they gather
cookie technology IP addresses dial-in phone number
boom all they need to watch you and come after you!
atek3
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From: "Phillip H. Zakas"
Has anyone tried a slingshot subscription yet? It's a US-based ISP providing anonymous internet access (anonymous because it's pre-paid...no credit card required, you buy a cd from a store, use an enclosed code for access, and get 600 local dial-up minutes [or 200 ld minutes]). It's
sold at Staples and Compusa. Their URL is www.slingshot.com. I really
being like
this idea of 'anonymous' dial-up access...very similar to pre-paid isp access ideas in europe. Are these business models going to survive long enough to invest my time/hassle to try this out? I know AOL, Earthlink, MSN, etc. rely heavily on knowing a little about their customers to drive higher CPM revenues (difficult to make money on sub revenues only).
phillip
Cpunks, I am using slingshot as a secondary ISP because my Verizon DSL sucks. It's has served me well. A good product with good tech support. You need to buy 1 CD for each machine you use. If you have access to a local # it comes to about 2 cents per min. Using to 800 # is 3X the cost. Bandwidth is only about 33K but good for a backup ISP with complete anonymous Internet access. At 02:54 PM 1/31/01 , you wrote:
Has anyone tried a slingshot subscription yet? It's a US-based ISP providing anonymous internet access (anonymous because it's pre-paid...no credit card required, you buy a cd from a store, use an enclosed code for access, and get 600 local dial-up minutes [or 200 ld minutes]). It's being sold at Staples and Compusa. Their URL is www.slingshot.com. I really like this idea of 'anonymous' dial-up access...very similar to pre-paid isp access ideas in europe. Are these business models going to survive long enough to invest my time/hassle to try this out? I know AOL, Earthlink, MSN, etc. rely heavily on knowing a little about their customers to drive higher CPM revenues (difficult to make money on sub revenues only).
phillip
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