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Re: So Comcast has assumed responsibility . . . said by newview:for content on their network? You could argue that, given recent revelations that Comcast is monitoring traffic and content, they have assumed responsibility for ALL content, legal or illegal. A huge can of worms to open. Now they use the excuse that they are doing it to protect their network from abuse , which to most seems to be a nobel cause , at least to the folks who try to justify $60 for net connection is fair considering the stuff they pull.
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| said by BosstonesOwn:Now they use the excuse that they are doing it to protect their network from abuse . . . All the while continuing to allow their spam zombies to rape the rest of the internet. Once again, by their action and inaction, they've chosen to cherry-pick the part of their TOS that benefits THEM and ignore those parts that cost them significant time and money.
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P2P traffic is very disruptive to network traffic. I read a report recently where a node with more than enough bandwidth for 500 users can be destroyed by 10 seeding torrent users.
Of course the typical BBR user response is to add more bandwidth but they will just soak up the extra bandwidth.
Maybe if Torrents were not so disruptive to networks they would not have to resort to these kinds of things. |
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| I have to agree here, its VERY disruptive to a network, I run a small WISP, with no choice to limit/block p2p, as a single user managed to all but destroy my network, if it wasnt so disruptive, Id allow it! I personally dont care what a user does, but if it affects my network (spam, virus, p2p) they get cut off! Its my network and I can! |
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said by battleop:I read a report recently where a node with more than enough bandwidth for 500 users can be destroyed by 10 seeding torrent users. Those 10 users are using a maximum of what, 10mbs of bandwidth? If there is enough bandwidth to the node, there should be no problem. Adding more bandwidth won't cause them to use anymore because they are already maxed out. |
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said by newview:said by BosstonesOwn:Now they use the excuse that they are doing it to protect their network from abuse . . . All the while continuing to allow their spam zombies to rape the rest of the internet. Once again, by their action and inaction, they've chosen to cherry-pick the part of their TOS that benefits THEM and ignore those parts that cost them significant time and money. I'll usually refrain from wasting my breath (keystrokes) on these news threads these days but ... well said!!
Let's start suing Comcast for every infection that comes from "their" network. What, you can't throw darts (RST) at the passing zombie/ddos/etc traffic but you can BT? Yeah but no. I'm not really an IT-Sec geared person but if a few grand in hardware/software and some research can obliterate "average" bot-style traffic on a large enterprise-scale WAN situation I'd imagine Comcast could manage (even if they need to get a consultant in to do it ... HA!). But back to the lawsuits, I'm assuming p2p "warez" has generated enough legal heat to get them to start acting "pro-actively" against such traffic.
So the fact that 50-Cent's new single got leaked and passed around for free is much more troubling than Grandma NiceLady had her PC infected and had to take it in to have it repaired (which costs MUCH more than music/mp3s,etc for the average folk). Yes, that makes a whole lot of sense. But wait: Grandma NiceLady can't throw down gobs of money just to make their case like the production outfits and others with a stake have been doing re: pirated material.
Pirating data is a problem, I will be amongst the first to tell ya that. BUT ... Let's take care of the bigger problems first, such as aiding in child abuse cases, (real) terrorism issues, hacking/ddos/etc, and other illegal acts first that spew from these networks. Ya know, actual criminal offenses that are worth the paper the charges are written on.
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