 maartenaElmoPremium
join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA
kudos:1
 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·DIRECTV
| . This just shows that the great and vast community of internet users basically circumvent these issues for little or no cost.
ISP spends money to implement trafficshaping.
Users go encrypted for free.
ISP spends money to implement encrypted trafficshaping.
Users go to SecureIX/VPN for free.
ISP will now spend money to implement SecureIX blocking.
Users will find some other solution, most likely for free.
ISP will now spend money to block the other solution.
Users will.... well, you know the drill by now. 
The bigger problem here actually is that all that spent money will eventually filter down to the price users pay for their internet connections.
And I actually believe it would have been cheaper for the ISP to just upgrade the darn bandwidth and capacity of their network instead of continuing to try and block stuff. At least that way all users know that their price got jacked up to implement more bandwidth, instead of it being jacked up because they want to implement more restrictions.
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"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both" -
Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father. |
