Shaw Throttling Bit Torrent? > Law suit time

reply to martissimo

Re: Law suit time

You are absolutely correct Hall, there is little doubt that most is not legal. The problem is that throttling illegal use would still affect my legal use if my ISP chose to go this route.

It seems to me that the RIAA and MPAA can take care of themselves through litigation, sooner or later it is bound to cause a slowing of illegal traffic as people actually know friends who have been affected instead of just reading antecdotal stories about it. That day is going to come (in my opinion),

I realize that ISP's hate the so called bandwidth hogs, they make their job tougher, but we also need to realize that demand for bandwidth as more legitimate bandwidth intensive applications are constantly being deployed is only going to rise. The peoples need for bandwidth is only going to increase in the future. At some point the providers will have to provide it or be replaced by those who will.

A lot at work here, and I certainly don't have the answers, but this particular answer doesn't strike me as being the best one

Yeh if you are beta testing World of Warcraft for example, they push their client patches which can be nearly 2.5 GB using bittorrent technology... I use bittorrent regularly to download FPS mods for Battelfield 1942. All these uses are very legitimate, why should they be chocked becuase a few bad apples are doing illegal things?

A few?

I don't support the ISP's blocking things without telling customers, but I am not so naive to believe that there are only a "few" bad apples using BitTorrent.

It's more like a few legitimate users are using it, and have a point. The majority of bandwidth used by BitTorrents is not legitimate.

Unless you want to believe in the good of mankind, and that the 35% of Internet traffic contributed to BitTorrent is multiplayer maps, game patches, and music from artists that distribute music freely.