____/ Philip on Friday 28 March 2008 14:54 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Verizon makes nice with P2P
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>> | So what’s it to be? Well Verizon appears, at least to be considering a
>> | middle road, one where instead of working against P2P, or just putting up
>> | with its traffic costs, it will offer protocols to help co-operate with
>> | P2P networks to deliver entertainment, by better understanding the
>> | conditions of the network it is traveling over. That really IS open.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/24/verizon_p4p_filesharing/
>
> From what I read in other releases, they still are reserving the right
> to control their networks, just not at the specific expense of
> bittorrent. Which seems to imply that they may do dynamic throttling of
> along a broader base of protocols.
>
> I guess that is good if it means better QoS for all comcast subscribers.
>
> However, I suspect that comcast's motives have more to do with bandwidth
> scavenging for their television and other non-internet revenue streams.
> Bittorrent was just an easy target and they got caught.
I think it's likely to start in a mild and benign way like most things (such as
Web filtering). It can later be abused it all sorts of way. If it can, it
will.
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