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Re: P2P, bandwidth hogs, et all "Just last night I downloaded a large file via BT on Comcast as full speed"
In order for you to download someone has to upload. If other isps started doing the same thing how far do you think you would get with everyone trying to download and no one uploading?
The idea with seeding is that you give some and you take some. Unfortunately it always comes to pass that few people give and many people take so you end up with a smaller subset of the population doing most of the seeding. Hence your "bandwidth hogs". If MORE people would seed the present bandwidth hogs wouldn't have to be carrying so much of the upload traffic and there wouldn't be bandwidth hogs, traffic would be more evenly distributed and there would be the recognition that consumption of a broad majority of the population is on the rise.
We would then be perceiving this problem correctly. That, in reality, the majority of broadband users are consuming more than they were, but that much of the upload is being borne a few users because most people take more than they give. To repeat, an uploading bandwidth hog couldn't be an uploading hog unless there were people like you downloading. Trying to claim that the problem is them uploading and that you are a good guy because you are only downloading makes no sense. If no one was downloading upload traffic would be essentially ZERO. | |
| There is a little validity to you post but only a little. The fact is the majority of private citizens that are seeding are doing so with illicit pirated material that a large number of people are downloading.
Regardless of the chilling effect that an isp blocking seeders has on Bit Torrent overall you miss the point. Allowing the mass public to connect to your pc on an ongoing basis is against the rules that Comcast subscribers agree to when they order service. The bottom line issue is that NO serving is authorized by the TOS, so when an isp decides to block a server they are within their rights to do so. Legitimate sites that offer files via Bit torrent will have commercial lines unaffected by this requirement. The fact is this is residentila service and under no obligation to allow anyone to perform functions outside of the TOS. If you want to run a server with a lot of traffic get Comcast Commercial. | |
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