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P2P Bandwidth Hogging the Net

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-the-sky-is-blue dept.

zymano writes "zdnet has this article about bandwidth hogging p2p." I'm sure we'll see more rate limiting in the future and per-gig charges. The article says 60% of ISPs bandwidth is P2P, and that seems high to me, but not unrealistic. Besides, since most broadband is pretty seriously hamstringed in the upstream department, I'm not sure where they can go with this.

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Frist Psot!
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    the lord of keeping it real

  3. Glad I do not use Linux by Billly+Gates · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    A lawyer friend predicted this about three years ago. We made sure to check our licences and, as a result, have stayed proprietary-only. We hated some aspects of Microsoft's new licencing regime but, at least, have no fear of being sued by an IP-owning company such as SCO.

    We knew it would happen, and are glad not to have the nightmare of compensation for stolen code (accidental or deliberate) ruining our core business. Sorry, open-source advocates, but that's what it comes down to: business versus play.

    A neighbour in this block is trying to get the standard BT ADSL modem to work with Linux. He's wasted a day, and still says he can't connect. We put the CD-ROM in the drive and were working again in about two minutes. Business versus play

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    I think you are experiencing what head-shrinkers call "projection".