| The cat and mouse game continues. In the end the consumer will get screwed because the more BT developers do to circumvent the throttling the more Comcast will combat with broader restrictions.
Maybe they should focus on a client that is less disruptive to networks. You don't see Comcast going after NNTP or IRC traffic in the same way. |
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| The primary users of the BitTorrent technology use it to illegally share copyrighted material. You folks can give all the clever rationalizations you can think of but, downloading such material is nothing more than thievery. You are what you do. |
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 dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
kudos:18 | said by tbsteph:The primary users of the BitTorrent technology use it to illegally share copyrighted material. You folks can give all the clever rationalizations you can think of but, downloading such material is nothing more than thievery. You are what you do. When I decide to use VUZE to download MariposaHD, I'm stealing? 
Carpet bomb all BT upstream traffic because some of it is illegal?
What about HTTP traffic?
Some of that is illegal too! Nuke HTTP! 
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kudos:1 | Lets nuke AOL Instant Messenger too. Its used by pedophiles to find victims. Lets nuke HTTP, people use it to commit statutory rape through myspace. Let nuke people. Because they prevent from Jesus ruling the world. |
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It's the chaos that BT traffic creates. I don't really think they care about the content. IF they cared about the content they would have gone after NNTP traffic which can consume much more bandwidth than BT. |
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said by tbsteph:The primary users of the BitTorrent technology use it to illegally share copyrighted material. You folks can give all the clever rationalizations you can think of but, downloading such material is nothing more than thievery. You are what you do. Maybe so but the fact is it is not the only purpose of BT. Targeting the technology as a whole is just a heavy handed approach by ISPs not willing to spend on upgrades to their networks.
There are legal uses for BT. But I have never seen any of you anti 'piracy' people say anything about that.
We need net neutrality laws. ISPs should be dumb pipe providers and if they try anything else they should be fined into bankruptcy. Corporations can make threats about it slowing down the progress since it's them not moving forward and even going back considering metered bandwidth plans.
Greed at it's worst. |
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