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join:2001-08-07
Sacramento, CA
| Sacramento was toyed with as well... Sacramento (on Comcast/ATTBI at the time) experienced this exact same problem with Kazaa almost 2 years ago. I'm an experienced network support tech, and found that downloads ONLY with Kazaa were being throttled back, within a certain port range. Many calls by myself and others in Sacramento resulted in Comcast callcenter techs giving us the same answer: "We do not support 3rd party applications". Mysteriouisly, 3 months later, it worked all of a sudden. No answer as to why it was done, but I suspect they were "testing the waters" to see how much public backlash would occur if they restricted P2P on their network. | |
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 Rob850
join:2003-04-11
Mary Esther, FL | Re: Sacramento was toyed with as well... P2P is dying (thanks to the RIAA greed) however there's still other forums of getting tunes.
I'd hope you guys will stop buying CD's
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Part Of The Problem
join:2001-09-27
Dayton, OH
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| Re: Sacramento was toyed with as well... said by Rob850  :P2P is dying (thanks to the RIAA greed) however there's still other forums of getting tunes. I thought that p2p had legitimate uses in distributing open source operating systems and PC game code?
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join:2001-08-03
Grand Rapids, MI
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| Re: Sacramento was toyed with as well... said by Beeper : said by Rob850 :P2P is dying (thanks to the RIAA greed) however there's still other forums of getting tunes. I thought that p2p had legitimate uses in distributing open source operating systems and PC game code? It does have legit uses. However, the legitimate use does NOT exceed illegitimate use.
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join:2002-09-24
Charlotte, NC
| Re: Sacramento was toyed with as well... said by Nightfall : However, the legitimate use does NOT exceed illegitimate use. Maybe, but legitimate use + Pron is greater than Music & Movie downloads. | |
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join:2004-01-14
Winterset, IA
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| said by Rob850 :P2P is dying (thanks to the RIAA greed) however there's still other forums of getting tunes. P2P wasn't dying last time I checked.
And you are correct that there are other ways of getting tunes. The United States Postal Service (or your local equivalent) is a good way of getting your tunes and ware[s][z] from one place to another. Flash mobs with wireless access points is another good way. Just get a few 802.11a or g access points, a VIA mini-itx PC, some hard drives and a car. You can figure the rest out yourself. The best part of this is Comcast or [insert your bandwidth capping bastard ISP here] can't shut you off for this. You can also go with zmodem to bypass acquiring an IP addy for ware[s][z] that you can't get due to the RF propagation characteristics of 2.4 and 5 gigacycles.
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