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jp10558
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Re: Bandwith throttling poor way to deal with P2P

I wonder how this will work WRT BT though. BT is one of the more legitimate P2P apps, in fact it is used or will be used by several large commercial entities - Blizzard is one for it's WoW patches.

Being known for degrading the performance of parts of one of the most popular MMORPG's is not really a good selling point for an ISP.

Not to mention, more software distributors are following the Linux distros, Opera for instance is working on going Bittorrent for updates from v9 IIRC.

And we've seen various DRMed Movie rental services planning on using Bittorrent for their services.

Overall, I think you can shape Guntella, Edonky, Fasttrack, whatever, but trying to shape Bittorrent is getting near shapeing FTP or HTTP file transfers which will be pretty sticky soon if not already for even the most legit users.

Not to mention, there is already filesharing that uses SSL HTTP file transfers - shaping that would likely impact *LOTS* of legitimate uses...
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