| throttle me for saying it... heres the biggest problem i see with ISP throttling; yes they shouldnt do it, yes its wrong for them to advertise unlimited access when it is limited, but...most bittorrent throttle was....PIRATED MATERIAL!!! it stinks for the people who use it for legit reasons, but for us to complain that i had packet loss when downloading Iron Man...its tough to complain. |
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| That's not the point. It's the thin edge of the wedge. What will they decide to throttle with absolutely no technical basis? You're on Comcast ... so say they throttle traffic that originates from a Qwest, Verizon, Charter IP address whether business level or not. Say they have an agreement with MSN (which Bell does), so say they decide to throttle Yahoo! content provisions.
There are thousands of other non-net neutral scenarios that can lead from this.
Telcos throttling VoIP
It's the ISP telling you what they want to you to do with the internet connection.
The matter of pirated material is another one altogether and should be dealt with in its own arena ... not this one where the focus is net neutrality. |
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 knightmbEverybody Lies
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Franklin, TN | said by sbrook:The matter of pirated material is another one altogether and should be dealt with in its own arena ... not this one where the focus is net neutrality. As the quote I read once that sums that up.
"Never try to provide a technical solution for a social problem" 
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said by baineschile1 :
heres the biggest problem i see with ISP throttling; yes they shouldnt do it, yes its wrong for them to advertise unlimited access when it is limited, but...most bittorrent throttle was....PIRATED MATERIAL!!! it stinks for the people who use it for legit reasons, but for us to complain that i had packet loss when downloading Iron Man...its tough to complain.
Do you have *hard* numbers which can support your claim that the majority of torrent material d/l via Bell circuits is pirated?
With an increasing number of legitimate content providers moving to torrent distribution models, nobody has any idea - especially if the torrent content is encrypted - which it may be for legitimate reasons. |
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