# kaal:claim:3782198-010

**Claim.** The incentive design in which originators of TCP requests pay the bill failed to solve web hosting costs, because the Tragedy of the Commons asserted itself and porn and pirated file sharing, sometimes set up by the ISPs themselves to game the payment design, consumed available bandwidth.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- applies to the early ISP era of Web 1.0 bandwidth provision

**Source quote.**

> This didn't solve the problem, as naturally the Tragedy of the Commons9 asserted itself. Porn sites and pirated file sharing (often set up by the ISPs themselves to game the payment design10) quickly used up any available bandwidth.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Contemporary Decentralization* (2021), History of Web <.> and Web ?.>, page 9

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `e7e1378e3eed06cace6534e7792a7307d607d18bc6beb4ac45896476280728e4` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Calcaterra%20and%20Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20Contemporary%20Decentralization.pdf

**Failure mode.** commons-collapse-in-isp-payment-design  (family: collective-action-and-coordination-failure)

**Topics.** institutional-design, risk-and-incentives

**Keywords.** tragedy-of-the-commons, isps, incentive-design, bandwidth, web1

**Related claims.**

- specializes: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3125822-013

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