Nightshade
Beware the Blue Rabbit
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join:2002-05-26
Salem, OR
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March 26th, @05:00PM
| Plugin Useful But Don't Expect Anything To Come About It
This plugin can be useful for informative purposes but don't expect Comcast and others who throttle BitTorrent to change their ways because of it. At most, there might be new encryption or uploading methods that will come about with the information the plugin will gather. Let's face it, it's always going to be a cat and mouse game until:
The FCC says to cut it out.
Potential lawsuits won that say to cut it out. Which in that case all the ISP has to do is change their TOS.
Network neutrality laws being passed that might deal with the issue.
I have always thought that throttling was a bad idea, it is like taking a butcher knife to where only a scalpel is needed. The ISPs scalpel tool is to simply kick the hogs off. It would be a lot easier to do, less expensive to maintain, and not leave a bad taste in customer's mouths because the only ones to be affected is the hogs and no one else. Why should everyone have to suffer when using a ISP service for only a few who decide to spoil it all for everyone? ISPs do have the right to manage their networks, after all they own it. But they could of done a more precise approach which I am sure everyone would of been more agreeable with. |
