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(old news - 06:34PM Tuesday Feb 14 2006)
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Canadian cable provider Shaw is one of the more draconian throttlers of Bit Torrent traffic. With the latest versions of Bit Torrent clients (like the latest µTorrent beta or the newly released Azureus 2.4) including end-to-end encryption however, many users are temporarily finding their way around Shaw's Ellacoya traffic shaping hardware. Users in our Shaw forum discuss their success. Unfortunately for them, it won't take long for Shaw to simply limit the number of connections that can be made a la RCN. With Internet video about to explode (with Bit Torrent playing a legit role), how long can Shaw avoid network upgrades?

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SSX4life
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I love the new encryption scheme!

I love the new encryption schemes found in Utorrent and Azureus 2.4! I personally use Azurus 2.4 + Safe Peer and it's flawless for safe torrenting on the internet! I noticed a nice increase in speed on my torrents soon as I upgraded!

*note* you need to be on the exact same connection and client for the packet shaping and encryption to work.

However overall I'm VERY pleased and I can't wait for future releases.

let us use our connection how we want, and don't dodge the Fu@#$ issues rogers/shaw!!! We know you did it, and we know you lie to us, come out of the closet once and for all.

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Re: I love the new encryption scheme!

said by SSX4life See Profile :

let us use our connection how we want, and don't dodge the Fu@#$ issues rogers/shaw!!! We know you did it, and we know you lie to us, come out of the closet once and for all.
And are you in Canada? Your profile location says Wisconsin, USA. So how is Rogers or Shaw stopping you from using YOUR connection? Mental telepathy, perhaps??
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Re: I love the new encryption scheme!

said by LiamJunket See Profile :

said by SSX4life See Profile :

let us use our connection how we want, and don't dodge the Fu@#$ issues rogers/shaw!!! We know you did it, and we know you lie to us, come out of the closet once and for all.
And are you in Canada? Your profile location says Wisconsin, USA. So how is Rogers or Shaw stopping you from using YOUR connection? Mental telepathy, perhaps??
It doesn't matter where he is located, that is a fallacy. He/she doesn't want these policies to find their way to the USA.

Traffic shaping and throttling (either concurrent connections or byte caps) are not a substitute to upgrade your network.

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Re: I love the new encryption scheme!

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Traffic shaping and throttling (either concurrent connections or byte caps) are not a substitute to upgrade your network.
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We just got a quote for $3000.00 per month for a fractional T-3 at 10 MBit/Sec.

The reason we are willing to pay that kind of money to get an honest to God 10 Mbit/Sec connection is simple. It won't be shaped. It won't be capped. It won't be limited.

We are upgrading our network.

Now, cluefull one, how much of that would you like to purchase? We will sell you the first 1 Mbit/Sec for $300.00 per month. We will *PROMISE* you 1 Mbit/Sec when you want to run your torrents, we will not shape you, we will not cap you ...

AND WE WILL NOT MAKE A DIME...

You figure it out. Duh.
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said by LiamJunket See Profile :

said by SSX4life See Profile :

let us use our connection how we want, and don't dodge the Fu@#$ issues rogers/shaw!!! We know you did it, and we know you lie to us, come out of the closet once and for all.
And are you in Canada? Your profile location says Wisconsin, USA. So how is Rogers or Shaw stopping you from using YOUR connection? Mental telepathy, perhaps??
Something tells me you aren't in Pocono Pines, PA, nor have service from "Northwestel Cable" (a Canadian cable operator) either...

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Re: I love the new encryption scheme!

said by RadioDoc See Profile :

Something tells me you aren't in Pocono Pines, PA, nor have service from "Northwestel Cable" (a Canadian cable operator) either...
And that is why I asked 1st if he was in Canada. Location info might be incorrect.;)
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Re: I love the new encryption scheme!

said by LiamJunket See Profile :

said by RadioDoc See Profile :

Something tells me you aren't in Pocono Pines, PA, nor have service from "Northwestel Cable" (a Canadian cable operator) either...
And that is why I asked 1st if he was in Canada. Location info might be incorrect.;)
Incorrect or purposely incorrect? I ask this because I see you regularly post with different names and different locations... Just makes me and many others kind of wonder...;)

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Re: I love the new encryption scheme!

said by GigahertZ420 See Profile :

Incorrect or purposely incorrect? I ask this because I see you regularly post with different names and different locations... Just makes me and many others kind of wonder...;)
Just trying to bring a little mystery into your drab lives.:D
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Re: I love the new encryption scheme!

said by LiamJunket See Profile :

said by GigahertZ420 See Profile :

Incorrect or purposely incorrect? I ask this because I see you regularly post with different names and different locations... Just makes me and many others kind of wonder...;)
Just trying to bring a little mystery into your drab lives.:D
Well as some may have alluded, the question may be which company(s) pays you to post here? You seem to regularly have a sympathetic ear to corporations and their "draconian" policies, but if your a stockholder that would explain it all...:)

I personally would like to render any and all ISP's throttling completely ineffective through VPN, encryptions, or other methods. Nothing like making a $50,000 peice of hardware utterly worthless and letting management know they should have invested that money in decent routers, switches, and backbone gear.

That and the fact that BitTorrent being an increasingly utilized method for legitimate downloads LINK makes any companies that cap/throttle look dumb and customer unfriendly

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Re: I love the new encryption scheme!

They probably just keep changing his meds but they most certainly are always the red pills no matter what they are.
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He's just a troll.

In any case, rumor is he's paid by comcast to post here. (and yes, he works for comcast outside of Philly). Comcast admitted about 6 months ago on an internal memo that they have, and have had for several years, professional 'astroturfers' to try and counter the anti-comcast rhetoric that sprouts up. (sort of like what happens with walmart). Paying someone 400.00/week to try and obfuscate msg boards is an easy way to take advantage of the simple minded at low wages, and has the added benefit of amusing even the moderately intelligent people of their desperate attacks.

There's a couple of other posters who work for the bells, etc. They aren't hard to spot, as they follow the scripts their handlers give them to attempt to counter any comments that make their paid supporters look bad. Common tactics include, but are not limited to, diverting the conversation off on a tangent, blaming it on 'criminals', telling them to 'start their own isp', and the classic 'it's their lines, they paid for it'. It's sort of fun to watch them post, almost at the same level of zoo monkeys throwing feces. They don't really affect anything, but you have to grin at their antics.
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Re: I love the new encryption scheme!

Poo Bear posted

"Common tactics include, but are not limited to, diverting the conversation off on a tangent,"

Sort of like you are doing now eh?

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Re: I love the new encryption scheme!

said by hobgoblin See Profile :

Sort of like you are doing now eh?
You might as well as ignore Poo, he likes to say his ridiculous crap and then disappear once called on it.
His newest tactic is to say that anyone who doesn't agree with him is the same person, or is paid by this or that. I assume it makes him feel better since he can't defend his opinions logically once confronted.

I'm still waiting for him to explain how pointing out that encryption isn't going to help for long is pro corporate propaganda:
»Bit Torrent Encryption Arms Race
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said by G_Poobah See Profile :

In any case, rumor is he's paid by comcast to post here. (and yes, he works for comcast outside of Philly).
Rumor is wrong as I stated here once before. I'm retired. And your out and out claim that I work for Comcast outside of Philly is based on what? Do you just make up things on purpose or do you have dreams where you can't tell fact from fantasy?
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G_Poobah

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Re: I love the new encryption scheme!

Oooh, the corporate apologists all post within a 20 minute window? how could that possibly be..

Professional Astroturfers are not allowed to say they are paid by megacorp .. Well, DUH.. That kind of disclosure would be like.. hmm.. oh the bush administration admitting they are wiretapping citizens without warrants, and we all know how that turns out. Oops, gotta be careful about criticizing the administration, heard cheney is being sent out as a hitman now.

The point is that there are only TWO ways to throttle traffic. The old school way is port throttling. You set your switch to drop traffic on port XXXX until the bandwidth is low enough. That of course causes the clients to do a massive number of retries, which slows down the PC until the software is smart enough to throttle itself (at the OS level)

Option 2 is deep packet scanning. In fact, they are using the ellacoya switch at several of their hubs. They have used several others, but last I heard they hadn't finalized the vendor yet. Again, I ramble. In order for a deep packet inspection to work, the traffic needs to have VISIBLE and UNDERSTANDABLE header information. If you've ever looked at a TCP dump (possible), you'd understand that in order for an inspection to work, you need to be able to determine exactly WHAT is in the packet. Once the keys are exchanged, all these 'deep inspection devices' go to hell, as all they can tell is that it IS traffic, but have zero idea WHAT traffic it is.

Proof? Why.. Azureus and utorrent work again! How could you possibly need more proof than that? Once everyone upgrades their clients, the war starts all over again.
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toadlife
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Re: I love the new encryption scheme!

Simple solution. If the traffic is encrypted, throttle it.

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How is Azureus working proof that he works for Comcast?

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said by G_Poobah See Profile :

Oooh, the corporate apologists all post within a 20 minute window? And now I'm gonna change the subject cause thats all I got.
I may have edited that a bit. You know...just in case anyone was confused by your sudden concern with explaining the two ways you know how to throttle a protocol.
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Since the devices at layers 2 and 3 are NOT running this encryption scheme, (being that the company doing the throttling actually OWNS that equipment), THAT information can NOT pass encrypted.

Had you ever done a NETFLOW analysis (highly unlikley), the UNTHROTTLED encrypted activity pattern sticks out like a sore thumb.

The source and destination addresses (at layers 2 and 3) CANNOT be encrypted. For the packets to be delivered, they MUST be legible to the devices doing the forwarding.

All encryption does is scramble the PAYLOAD. Encryption protects you from the xxAA's, not network traffic shaping.

The ONLY reason it APPEARS to work is the limited distribution, thus far, of encryption clients. (in order for it to work, both sides have to encrypt identically).
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G_Poobah

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Re: I love the new encryption scheme!

Umm, you use big words, but you don't know what they mean.
First of all, Encryption occurs at layer 2, in fact, they even have a NAME for it.. It's called L2TP (or Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol). You can set it up on your Windows PC very easily by creating a VPN connection.

How does this magic Layer 2 Tunneling protocol work? Why, it ENCAPSULATES (It's a big word, but you could look it up) the protocol inside the PPP, then it puts the entire package inside the frame (usually IP). So, from the OUTSIDE, the Man in the Middle (ISP) can see.. hmm.. everything from layer 1 (they own the switch) to layer 7. But they have NO IDEA WHAT'S INSIDE. Period. The PAYLOAD is the entire package. For all you know it could be a netbios frame! It PROTECTS you from ANY TRAFFIC SHAPING because it's an ALL or NOTHING approach. The ISP could throttle ALL encrypted traffic, or NO encrypted traffic. There's no middle ground.

So, given that the entire package of data from my pc to your pc has been encrypted, and the only way to unencrypt it is for your PC to have the correct key. Please tell me how they could determine WHAT PROTOCOL I was running? Am I running HTTP? Am I running SMTP? Am I running TELNET? Oh, wait, they CAN'T TELL. PERIOD.

So, there is NO WAY to selectively filter encrypted traffic on a protocol level. The entire concept of trying to 'throttle' encrypted torrent traffic by packet inspection is pointless, since they can't tell it's torrent traffic.

There are other options, of course, like limiting connections, etc. But that's not the issue. The issue is all that expensive, fancy equipment they bought is now a worthless piece of electronics. In fact, most of the vendors have a FAQ saying 'yes, encryption will defeat our devices, but we expect congress to outlaw encryption'.
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Re: I love the new encryption scheme!

Packets can't get back to your PC without referencing your machine's IP Address. Without a MAC address, there's now way for your upstream router to ARP your CPE for the forwarding tables. Without a forwarding table entry, your packets go nowhere.

Your upstream device ALWAYS knows who you are.

Layer 2 and 3 aside, the service port you open is meaningless
as the BitTorrent/E-mule netflow pattern showing thousands of simultaneous inbound connection attempts to one CPE is well known and easy to spot.
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G_Poobah

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Re: I love the new encryption scheme!

have to reply, but what the hell are you talking about? Of course the upstream devices knows who I am, that's impossible to hide. But it's completely irrelevant to your misguided attempt to understand how encryption works. As the original post goes : If you ENCRYPT your bit-torrent traffic, the traffic shapers DON'T WORK. I described in detail exactly WHY they don't work. Because the info leaving your computer CANNOT be inspected with the technology they deployed. Period. Encryption defeats packet inspection, which is why I argue that ALL traffic should be encyrpted by default. Any crap about the ISP being able to see Layer 2-7 traffic is meaningless, as the encryption occurs BEFORE it leaves your PC.

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Bullshit. Traffic shaping can be done by netflow pattern, and can be protocol port independant.

IP FLOW PATTERN.

Hundreds of simultaneous incoming connection attempts destined for a single address.

1 in 5 can easily be discarded.

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G_Poobah

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Re: I love the new encryption scheme!

*Sigh*.. I'll post one last time, since you obviously don't get it.. What's the TITLE of the subject? "Bit Torrent Encryption Beats Shaw Throttling"

You argue that encryption doesn't beat throttle. That's complete and total bullshit, and I've shown you the proof. Maybe it's possible you don't even know HOW encryption works, (and I quote your post "The source and destination addresses (at layers 2 and 3) CANNOT be encrypted".

(helpful hint from a real cisco engineer: Layer 2 MAC addresses aren't send beyond the switch.. that's why it's called a 'switch' and not a 'router')

There is no way to inspect an encrypted packet, unless you know some 'magic super decrypter' that does it or you are the NSA with the real time processing capabilities. ENCRYPTION defeats everything Shaw is trying to do to throttle torrents. PERIOD. Shaw will need to rip out all that worthless equipment, and install new equipment to TRY and defeat torrent traffic. And of course, the torrent makers will defeat THOSE techniques too.

As I said before "There are other options, of course, like limiting connections, etc. But that's not the issue.".

I researched your 'supposed' technique of 'ip flow pattern', and can't find it being used anywhere on a WAN basis. Then I realized, oh, wait, he's talking about Cisco Traffic Manager. I've used that! But it FAILED MISERABLY, and it NEVER WORKED WELL. In fact, Cisco gave up on it 2 years ago! It CAN'T work. The processing power and memory required to maintain a table of just ONE ports session states was huge. Try and scale that up to 10,000 nodes at once? There's no processor/memory combo even remotely powerful enough. Maybe I'm wrong, and your right. Please point me to this 'magic device' if it's available. (hint: a notebook based application ISN'T the same thing as an enterprise level processor. Monitoring one port, or even 100 ports is cake, Monitoring 10,000+ is impossible.

Go back to the original message. The objective of SHAW is to throttle torrent traffic. Not the entire connection. Not the total bandwidth, just torrent traffic. They can't do it. The internet wasn't designed that way, and encryption defeats all currently available methods of traffic shaping based on content.
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Re: I love the new encryption scheme!

Insults are meaningless.

I work Cisco every day in a network that services 2 Million customers. At command line. It's true.

I have been doing Computer work since 1982. Networking since 1988. I'm a bit more clueful than you realize.

There's NO NEED to inspect the packet. You watch the IP flow pattern at layer 3 and mark on the top talkers.

»netflow.cesnet.cz/

»manageengine.adventnet.com/produ···dex.html

»www.cisco.com/warp/public/732/pa···0604.pdf

it's you who aren't seeing this...read the article a bit closer, it says BOTH ends must be running the same encryption client. With the, thus far, limited distribution of the encrypted client, the netflow monitoring isn't seeing hundreds of simultaneous connections request, so the netflow monitering sees no need to throttle.

TOP TALKERS, no more, no less....and no reference to service port.
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Don't bother posting a reply to That idiot(G_Poobah).

He is a naive, unrealistic communist troll who needs to move out of his parents house into the real world. He tried to move to N. Korea but they denied him due to his extremely stupid views on pretty much anything.

His most used tactic if you disagree with you is to ignore the post, or claim you are a pro-corp apologist fascist (doesn't make sense to me either) or that you work for _insert ISP Here_. He does this to avoid thinking thus possibly realizing he was wrong.

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It does not matter if I don't live in Canada, I've got friends who do and I can still clearly see the differences. Agreed yes I'm in WI, but is that really the issue here? Isn't the issue that Shaw / Rogers is NOTupgrading their networks and because of this they are taking other approaches to solve a problem? Would you see the telephone company cutting lines because they have too many people making phone calls? Would you see cellphone companies telling you, "you can't make those phonecalls, not that many phonecalls because we have too many users on the network for us to support fully" ? hell no!

Don't tell me that throddling internet, and capping websites is only a misunderstanding! That they are doing it because they can, that they are disabling newgroups because obviously you, I, and everyone else are petafiles and search, download, and j@ck off to kiddie p0rn right?

No, they turn off newsgroups because it's one more thing thats slowing down their slow-ass network, one more thing that they feel the users don'tneed, one more thing that needs to be fixed! Upgrade the pipes, or kick people off of them that's their mentality! Sure we'll raise the costs of a per month isp, packet shape people, and still deny it! Sure this sounds like a great buisness plan!

Now I'm getting mad and I could go on, but I don't want to be on this soap box too long.

Point 1. It doesn't matter where you are, by limiting the speed, denying it, and cutting services you are hurting yourself, your customer basis, and the overall professioinality of your buisness

Point 2. You are setting a standard that could be implimented across the globe. Remove skype and VOIP because you want us to use your networking VOIP instead, remove newsgroups because you say it's capible of using kiddie porn (don't get me wrong, I still think that's sick sh!t, just find a better reason to shut it down than that).

Point 3. This clearly shows you need to upgrade your network.

Points said, points recieved, points taken

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Re: I love the new encryption scheme!

said by SSX4life See Profile :

It does not matter if I don't live in Canada, I've got friends who do and I can still clearly see the differences. Agreed yes I'm in WI, but is that really the issue here? Isn't the issue that Shaw / Rogers is NOTupgrading their networks and because of this they are taking other approaches to solve a problem?
I think the issue is that you implied that Encryption has helped your Shaw and/or RCN connection when in fact, by you're own admission, you couldn't know personally one way or the other. Changing the subject, and basically stopping just short of saying "it doesn't matter if I'm not actually affected, my made up story is representative of what all Shaw/Rodgers users have experienced", doesn't help you're credibility.
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Re: I love the new encryption scheme!

Point said point taken, the facts still remain.

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Re: I love the new encryption scheme!

said by SSX4life See Profile :

Point said point taken, the facts still remain.
Oh so you are going with the "these facts are based on a true story" defense.
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There is always around to get to the hole.

Unless they start throttling the connection for every single bit there will be a way around. Eg: Why does DRM on audio CDs never work? because the underlying technology doesn't support it and cannot have it implemented unless they want to be incompatible with the basic CDDA player from the 80s.

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hopefully they will start enforcing copyright laws in canada and you get arrested for downloading copyright files

blacksky

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Throttling

When I upload I want my canadian brothers up north to be able to download from me and vice versa.
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Canada

Who lives there anyway? It's just a sheet of ice and people live underground. lol
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They play hockey underground, then? Sounds fun.
Anyway, on the Shaw issue, I really hope they don't buy anymore throttling stuff and just FIX YOUR NETWORK with the money spent on that throttling thing. Maybe ebay it?
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Suicide

Shaw is just killing themselves, the future will not be a bright one for them.

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Another view

If I had to deal with Shaw on their throttling of Bit Torrent, I would be upset as well. However, how many current Shaw customers are upset about the throttling? Even more important, how many of them even notice it? You can bet the BBR users would notice it, but it is my guess that a bulk majority of the people who use Shaw don't use Bit Torrent or just don't notice it.

I am not pointing this out to be a prick. It is mainly to show that 98% of the people out there that use systems on the internet just don't use this kind of software or just won't notice. That doesn't make it right unless Shaw is coming out to say that they are throttling it. Oh wait, they are doing that so that takes care of that.

I hope those people in Shaw supported areas who like Bit Torrent have more than one broadband provider. Shaw owns the service and they have a right to provide the service as they see fit. Don't like it? Don't pay for it.
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... With Internet Video about to explode ...
Ahem, BULLSHIT.

Sorry, Internet VIDEO is going to do what Internet Radio has done...

SQUAT.

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Techman21

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trivial comments

[points & laughs]
Sunburn

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Result of hijacked Liberalism.

Don't these particular Canadian broadband companies rely on Govt subsidies for development?? Like they got when rolling out and developing their current network?

Is it not a fact they cannot afford to sustain significant next generation network development without billing you for it?

Those in CAD will surely have to cough up more money for taxes and subscription rates for next generation service. Of course they will or maybe they could leach some hard earned new tech that solves all their problems.

This is the reason why the USA is actually THE leader in the industry and is never going to fall behind govt sponsored networks. This is despite the hundreds of (US sux) broadband envy comments/articles around here.

Economic policies such as these are a scam. The truth of this sheit has been hijacked by the ignorant and the most selfish of egos, the kind that would sell your future for a vote. These "enemies of development" are currently hiding under various banners which claim to be for the people, for the little guy, for fighting corruption, for a better future, for a better way, etc.

To bad most are suxors for this "logic" at first glance else we wouldn’t be having this discussion. Have no doubt about it, politicians are exploiting "the people" on the easy road employing "political band aids" to every issue of the day, many of which negatively leverages "the peoples" future.

It is an insult that some would not only step on the peoples back to reach power... but to also cripple it in the name of power? Seriously, this self-serving crap should be identified and replaced with representatives dedicated to doing the math and making the best decision for our future

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Calgary, AB

Re: Result of hijacked Liberalism.

Wow, none of that has anything to do with a company being able to do what they want with their network. If you pay for the product, then you have agreed to the terms of the sale. The seller agrees to sell and the buyer agrees to buy. Every customer wants to tell the company what they should be getting for their money, it's greed on both parts. And if you think otherwise, then you are hiding behind your own ignorance. It's cool though, that whole rant and it's hipocracy. :P

Legit P2P is coming

@range86-130.btcentra

Re: Result of hijacked Liberalism.

P2P caching is the answer for Cable Companies. Look at ntl: and BitTorrent in the UK. Mitigate the impact for providers without screwing user experience. Everyones happy.
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