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."

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Nonsensical

[_Hellfire_]

Well personally I think the Dallas Mavericks need to improve their front line ball-running and trade players in and out of the game more often if they are to be in with a chance this season. Also, if the Captain Maverick was placed in the middle instead of the front during the offensive plays, they could ensure more runs on the board by getting more stoppages in their favor.

Who are the Dallas Mavericks?

Indeed - maybe he should stick to whatever the hell he's good at, and leave the ISP stuff up to those that actually know what they're talking about.

Just imagine how fast the internet would be...

[Chrisq]

Just imagine how fast the internet would be if there were no content to view. After P2Ps gone, get rid of all these freeloading websites, emails, etc. and it will be blisteringly fast.

Re:Just imagine how fast the internet would be...

[Kadin2048]

Are we allowed ICMP ping, so we can tell how fast it is?

Nothing else, just ping.

There's part of me that would pay for that.

Re:One way to solve this

[PHPfanboy]

Like you I also work for an internet QoS hardware manufacturer and I think this is definitely the right way to go...