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Originally Posted by JohnnyJames
I am curious about how comcast is defining "File sharing protocols". And how much legitimate traffic is being caught up by whatever filtering program thay are using?
If it is simple throttling, how do they KNOW who is pirating? Is it a judgement based solely on bandwidth usage?
How much is TOO much? And who decides? Individual companies? This could set the stge for a whole new class of ISP, one that does NOT enforce limits EVER, and in fact, lead to the rise of Torrent-friendly ISP's. Already, ISP's are pretty much free of any legal action from a result of a user's actions.
One aspect for the adult biz would be:
Your customer is a good, paying subscriber of three good networks. Has rebilled again and again. Between the networks there are enough content updates to provide him with 100 gigper month of new porn. He downloads all of it because he loves it, is paying for it, and it is there.
Is your good paying customer going to get throttled? If so, he will probably get angry at YOU. Even if he does realize it's the ISP, he is forced to make a hard choice. Which of the three networks he will continue to use in the face of these new limits.
Just a thought from a different perspective.
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I don't see why everyone is getting bent out of shape over this. Oh wait, thats right, most people who use p2p are looking for something for free, so why wouldn't they expect to get unlimited bandwidth for free as well.
Just about Everything except for breathing is rate limited. Unless you pay for an unlimited plan on something you are going to get capped or throttled.
I wonder if the same people who are saying they shouldn't throttle usage to reasonable amounts would feel the same way if one of the members of their site started downloading/playing all of their videos from their site 24/7, at the end of the month the $35 month paying customer cost you several times more than that in bandwidth. It is abusive and unreasonable. If someone wants to use tons of bandwidth why can't they pay for it? thats right, they want everything for free. Fucking stupid mentality.