Mark Cuban Calls on ISPs to Block P2P

boaz112358 writes "Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks owner, HDNet CEO, and noted gadfly is publishing on his blog that Comcast and other ISPs should block all P2P traffic, because as he says, "As a consumer, I want my internet experience to be as fast as possible. The last thing I want slowing my internet service down are P2P freeloaders." He complains that commercial content distributors instead of paying for their own bandwidth, are leeching off consumers who are paying for the bandwidth. As an alternative distribution method (at least for audio and video), he suggests Google video."

Comments

Re:Freeloaders?

[Itninja]

Just a bit of the devil's advocate here...

So, while you are downloading your 'gig of porn' (classy, BTW), what about your next-door neighbor whom you share a backbone switch with? He pays the same as you. Why should you get to hog unlimited bandwidth for perpetually downloaded greymarket material, why they spend hours on the phone with the ISP support wondering why their connection is so slow? Not that I don't agree with you, but that does happen...

Re:One way to solve this

[Anonymous Coward]

Luckily, nobody cares what you'd rather see.