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Re: 512 kbps sucks. said by roc5955:It's just a way for them to prevent you from setting up a server, which uploads data. They don't want their network bogged down uploading garbage from every little P2P user. If this rhetoric were followed strictly in 1999, would we have more than 768/128 now? Or high speed internet at all?
There was an article on DSLR a week or two ago about Iran limiting all internet in the country to 128k so it wasn't used for "culture shock" or some crap like that.. what you suggested is scarily similar.
France does the same thing with music players, for the player to be sold in the country it has to output no more than 1 milliwatt @ either 16 or 32 ohms, I forget which. It sounds like a good idea, let's keep people from blowing their ears out. But what happens when someone plugs a 500 ohm headphone in? They can't hear a thing at any volume.
Keeping things from moving forward in an attempt to minimize usage of a certain bad application of that technology hurts that technology across the board, for any usage. This is no different.
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