 telcolackey5The Truth? You can't handle the truth
join:2007-04-06
Death Valley, CA | Reporter or Lobbyist? I propose the "News" section of DSL Reports gets retitled to "Lobbying". I've never seen a piece of "news" posted without heavy agenda based text.
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people who use BitTorrents are in the business of trying to stop the company from throttling
Another way to write the above could also be:
billion dollar content companies who use BitTorrents to move their bandwidth costs to broadband ISPs are in the business of trying to stop the ISP from enforcing its ToS of not allowing reselling or sharing of its infrastructure for 3rd party CDN purposes.
BBR is not in the business of reporting news. They are pushing a lobbying agenda.
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patcat88
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Jamaica, NY
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
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said by telcolackey5:BBR is not in the business of reporting news. They are pushing a lobbying agenda. Funny how the people pushing a RIAA, MPAA, Telecom, etc etc position always claim that the natural position is an "Agenda". In fact they are pushing a serious agenda and try to attack everyone who doesn't go along with it.
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telcolackey5The Truth? You can't handle the truth
join:2007-04-06
Death Valley, CA | reply to patcat88
Thats an extreme end of the spectrum and something that doesn't even blip the radar. The bulk of this issue is the major corporations that see p2p as "free". They have it in all their business cases and are lobbying hard to ensure these costs are moved off their books.
The problem is it isn't "free", it moves the cost of content delivery to the broadband ISPs.
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telcolackey5The Truth? You can't handle the truth
join:2007-04-06
Death Valley, CA | reply to KrK
Not sure I would call either side the "natural position" This is very political and arguments are heavy on each side. In general I would keep pushing to understand the economics behind p2p. Who makes money, who saves money, who loses money, who pays for the bits, who wins and who loses from the technology?
These are the questions that are going unanswered by the p2p groups. The bandwidth is called "free" and that just does not compute.
My only concern is BBR taking a one sided position on this debate. I would like to see this site more neutral and better educated on the issues given it has a strong voice.
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