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Originally Posted by will76
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.
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I am NOT against throttling, quite the opposite. I support it for all the reasons you listed and more. Perhaps I wasn't clear on the point.
I just wanted to point out that a customer who is valued and downloads lots of content from all 50 sites he subscribes to could end up caught in this very wide attempt to control p2p. If he is "overusing" your bandwidth, that is between you and him.
I don't know that adding another throttle (the ISP) that neither you nor he can control will make this any easier. Certainly there should be limits, but where's the balance and who defines it?