Here we get to the original sin of packet networking.
The ARPANET was never meant to be commercial or private. All the protocols developed for it were meant to be subsidized by universities, the government or the military, with the names, phone numbers, and addresses of anyone sending a packet being public knowledge to anyone else in the network.
This made sense for the time since the IMPs used to send packets had less computing power than an addressable LED today.
Today the average 10 year old router has more computing power than was available in the whole world in 1970, but we've not made any push to move to protocols that incorporate price as a fundamental part of their design.
Worse is that I don't see anyway that we can implement this. So we're left with screeds by people who want information to be free, but get upset when they find out that someone has to pay for information.
The ARPANET was never meant to be commercial or private. All the protocols developed for it were meant to be subsidized by universities, the government or the military, with the names, phone numbers, and addresses of anyone sending a packet being public knowledge to anyone else in the network.
This made sense for the time since the IMPs used to send packets had less computing power than an addressable LED today.
Today the average 10 year old router has more computing power than was available in the whole world in 1970, but we've not made any push to move to protocols that incorporate price as a fundamental part of their design.
Worse is that I don't see anyway that we can implement this. So we're left with screeds by people who want information to be free, but get upset when they find out that someone has to pay for information.