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Originally Posted by RayBonga
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-976...g=2547-1_3-0-5
I think it makes much more sense to just block all this traffic, it's only used for piracy anyway and ISPs end up using much more bandwith than if it wasn't around. Sounds like a win win to content producers and ISPs
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You're SO off base. Most of what has been distributed via Bittorrent over the last
six and a half years is entirely legal. Also the big content producers, the major Hollywood studios, have PARTNERED with bittorrent.com, so these content
producers sure wouldn't consider it a win if their business was blocked by ISPs.
This thing off using bittorrent for piracy is just a very recent fad.
We've been using bittorrent for years but never for any piracy. We always use
it for downloading operating system ISO images.
As far as ISPs, it's so funny to keep hearing the same things from you newbies
over the last ten years. They said that images, which required a thousand times
as much bandwidth as text, were going to kill the ISPs and a couple of stupid
ISPs like AOL compressed the hell out of images in an attempt to save money.
Then the same thing with mp3s - they take 40 times as much bandwidth as
images, so silly people said that ISPs should try to block them. Then video,
which takes much more bandwidth. HELLO! ISPs
SELL bandwidth! The
more bandwidth people want, the better for ISPs. When the web went from
text to images, suddenly there were thousands of times as many people wanting
to but internet access from ISPs and those who already had it were willing
to pay more for faster speeds. Then MP3 and everyone wanted a cable modem
capable of a whopping 512kbps. More and more people got online.
Next video takes off and more people were enjoying the internet and paying for
faster speeds. The more people there are who want to have more bandwidth,
the better is is for the ISPs because bandwidth is the product they sell.
The ideal for them is that some new app comes out that takes serious
bandwidth and we all start paying them $200 / month for last mile fiber.