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 ·RoadRunner Cable
| It's a scam, not a solution
This would reduce traffic across the border routers only if all the p2p people switched to the p4p.
Here are some good reasons that won't happen:
1. The person on the other end of the connection, on some other ISP, has the file you want and is distributing it on something other than p4p.
2. Only files the p4p vendor approves of will be distributable on p4p; anything that doesn't meet their standards will be excluded, but may be available on p2p.
3. Are they going to charge for use of p4p? P2p is free.
4. For me to trust their client, they'll have to publish the source code on a licence that lets me change it and recompile if it doesn't conform to my security policy. But this won't happen - see #2 and #3.
5. Monitoring (spyware), advertising, DRM, other hassles or hazards?
If Comcast tries to pressure subscribers to use only p4p and abandon p2p, whether by rules or by technical interference, they'll be right back to traffic discrimination (violation of network neutrality). The claim that all p2p use is copyright infringement is demonstrably false and cannot provide any excuse for discrimination or for trying to change the applications customers use. |
