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Re: Good for commercial distribution, but can't replace BT

It seems like this solution points to a better solution for the ISPs. That is if they want to support BT. They can look at their traffic and see which Torrent sites are creating the heaviest traffic and set up their own peers on their network to help serve that content. With a little bit of work they can prevent the ISP peer from feeding sites off of their network so it would provide fast updates for their customers.

Of course without a good deal of work on software to keep the site up to date, it's going to take a person to watch over the torrents and make sure the site has the latest torrents that are creating off-network traffic. However, for a company like Comcast it makes plenty of sense since they have a large number of customers and a great deal of off-network traffic.
permalink · 2008-04-09 12:44:07 · Print · Reply to this

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Re: Good for commercial distribution, but can't replace BT

That would work, but it would expose the ISPs to liability for any copyright violations. Maybe a lot of torrent traffic on a given day is users getting a recent Hollywood movie - if the ISP served pieces of that torrent, the copyright holder would sue and win right away.

To avoid this and still save "outside" traffic, the ISP would have to inspect all the torrents and serve only those which are not infringing. But this would be a big person-hours burden, and would invite liability for torrents they were carrying but not seeding (because they would then know which are infringing and which are not).
permalink · 2008-04-09 13:34:56 · Print · Reply to this
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