kd6caeP2p Shouldn't Be A Crime
join:2001-08-27
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| what about other uses of bandwidth OK, as someone who has used p2p in various forms since the original Napster, I can't help but wonder why all these providers (Bell and Comcast Especially), are wanting to throttle anything P2P. Why not just provide the customer with the speed they pay for, and who cares what the customer uses that speed for? I mean with Napster for example, you downloaded directly from a user, and users uploaded data from you. Now just how is that so different from say me doing an FTP backup of my own personal files to an off site location, which I pay for the storage of such data backups?
My point is, that many of the files I back up could be considered illegal, as they are mp3s ripped directly from my own personal CD collection, as well as CD images of my own personal windows operating system discs or sound card drivers, ETC. Should I not be allowed to backup content of mine to an off site location, just because it's "illegal" content in terms of file sharing, even though I purchased it and merely want to have a remote off site backup of it?
I'll agree I'm not really a fan of the way the bit torrent protocol works for p2p downloading and how it takes forever to get going, but that's not the only use of bandwidth. And before you ask, I also have my stuff backed up locally as well. All I'm saying is, there are reasons for wanting to be able to upload at the full speed you pay for! If you're going to throttle, then why have speed caps at all? Just give us a wide open pipe, that's only wide open in the middle of the night. The rest of the time the ISP can then feel free to throttle to whatever it wishes, since there won't be any speed tiers to worry about meeting. |
