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Net Neutrality and BitTorrent - No More Throttling?

Posted by Zonk on from the my-wow-patch-is-feeling-sad dept.

Umaga's Purse writes "Will ISPs still be able to throttle BitTorrent traffic now that a significant proportion of it is legit? It's a tough question, especially for ISPs like AT&T (which agreed to run a neutral network in order to gain approval for its merger with BellSouth from the FCC). It's not just a problem for AT&T, though: 'ISPs that have made no such agreements may not need to worry about BitTorrent taking over their networks, but they do need to wrestle with the issue of how to handle it now that so many legal uses of the protocol are available. Do they want to irritate their BitTorrent-using contingent, or let BitTorrent flow unhindered at the risk degrading the experience of those who don't download torrents?'"

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  1. Re:This may be a dumb question, but... by Gr8Apes · · Score: 2, Funny

    But your cell phone provider can degrade the quality of your call just a little bit to free up space, you just don't notice that much. What was that? I missed that last sentence, stupid &*%^^&*( Verizon!

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  2. Re:Which portion? by mordors9 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pr0n? And now even faster than ever... all is right with the world.

  3. Skynet by StikyPad · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh come on, people.. first we allow Ma Bell to recombine like the T-1000 and now we stand idly by as she starts a neural network? Will nobody think of the children? On the playground? With the.. big.. mushroom thingy?

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  4. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong... by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whoever asked this question clearly does not understand what network neutrality is about.

    And I don't blame them, as no one else really seems to agree on what the phrase "network neutrality" is supposed to mean, or even how it should be capitalized.

  5. Re:Important Message to ISP's: by muszek · · Score: 2, Funny

    1) Charge by the (giga)byte of any data traffic (ignore protocol)

    You've just made my list, pal.