ISPs Hate P2P Video On-Demand Services

Scrumptious writes "CNET is running an article that highlights the problems associated with video on-demand services that rely on P2P technology to distribute content. The article points out that ISPs who throttle traffic on current generation broadband, and negate network neutrality by using packet shaping technology, are hindering any possible adoption of the services offered nervously by content companies. Many broadband consumers are unaware of how hindered a service they may receive because of the horrendous constraints enforced by telephone network operators. This was a topic widely covered in 2006 in the US, but is now practiced as a common method within the United Kingdom."

Comments

No way

[Spazntwich]

You're telling me a set of companies with aging infrastructures who engage in deceptive business practices and loathe nothing more than giving their customers what they pay for hate having their infrastructures taxed by customers trying to get what they're paying for?

Inconceivable!

New Math

[Fnord666]

From TFA:

Packet shaping examines what you're downloading -- or more specifically, how you're downloading -- and restricts your download speed by up to 500 percent...

Must be that new math stuff I keep hearing so much about.

Re:New Math

[UbuntuDupe]

Right, it's because now they start sucking out your data.

In Soviet Russia, website downloads YOU!

ATTENTION!!!

[DJCacophony]

It should be noted that TFA is talking about British ISPs. The summary did not make it clear, and I think it's a very important distinction, especially because the site FAQ states this is generally an American site and everything is usually assumed American unless otherwise specified.