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John Kenney Says:
November 7th, 2007 at 3:26 pm“attacks”? Geez, this is a bit over the top alarmist, isn’t it?
You’ve got a fair point about ISPs marketing unlimited bandwidth and then taking steps to limit it – they need to fix that. But at the same time, the market’s moving fast and let’s be real about the enormous load that P2P traffic via Torrent et al are imposing on web infrastructure. These pipes aren’t cheap to install and manage. Not to mention that most of this traffic is dubious legally.
Not sure how it will or should work out, but I think the commercial realities facing the ISPs deserves at least a mention in a piece like this.
Which means you gotta at least face the possibility that the heavy torrent user is getting a free ride – even if their consumption is being metered.
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