| said by ashblack :Just recently (maybe a week or so) I have noticed throttling when trying to download from Hotfile & Fileserve!
I can't believe this. I thought with download cap we wouldn't have to worry about this!
Some ISP's now classify HotFile and RapidShare and others to be P2P, when they are not. But it is real hard to find an ISP that has a disclosure of, "the act of censoring(slowing) a targeted website", via dedicated throttling. Other than the disclosure of "throttling of non-priority traffic during congestion".
People do pay for the Digital Lockers to store non-infringing files, and get rather ticked when they can't download or upload at the connection speed available(user or website speed).
Someone one day is going to track how fast their Windows update is coming down, and if it's throttled too, they may contact Microsoft and have them do the paperwork on "targeted website" throttling practices.
At least Comcrap in the States is now throttling specific users, during congestion. Well, after they got caught hacking users data streams to insert "end transmission commands", that is(to stop P2P). Kind of like how Rogers is inserting system notices and hijacking DNS lookups, to send the user to a Ad laden search page, when a error(page/site not found) happens.
It's interesting to see a tracert to a site that does not exist. So instead of a site not found error, the tracert shows a path through the DNS redirect of the big bad ISP.
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