Who owns the internet? Who do we pay to use it and why?
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Nobody owns the internet, you pay to access it and to special areas if the people that own those areas want to charge you a fee… usally in the form of advertising. Just like nobody owns your conversation with your grandmother,. You need to pay for the service to be able to call her on the phone
No one really owns the internet, it is a whole bunch of individual people and big corporations and everything in between hosting a bunch of content on servers that are just constantly connected to the internet. Or less commonly but people can host stuff from their own home computer if they really want to.
Each government sets its own rules about what the people in their country are allowed to see on the internet, how their internet usage is tracked, how internet companies have to charge and control access, etc.
We pay *internet service providers* who act as gatekeepers to the internet. They installed all the infrastructure, like the cables and servers, that connect your house to their access point so you can go out to the world wide web.
You pay your ISP (Internet Service Provider) for the use of their infrastructure and the maintenance/upgrades/staffing required to keep it running.
No one owns it. The internet is just a way of connecting computers together so they can send information to each other. The internet is sort of like the roads and highways in the US. Some people and companies own some of the roads, but no one owns all the roads. You pay an ISP to get internet access in your house. What they own is basically a road that leads from your house or neighborhood to a major highway and then that highway is owned by someone else.
No one owns it.
The reason you pay for it is data centres cost money to run.
What your paying for is the internet provider to maintain the cable from your house to their data centre.
Then your paying for the energy to run the data centre, and the ISP services (billing, content servers(Netflix, YouTube, etc).
But the main cost is the links to the other ISP’s and the content providers. (Called peering)
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Who owns the domains then? Why do we have to pay to use a certain address?
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