Bell Canada Launches Its Own Online Video Store

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday May 22, 2008 @04:00PM from the pay-no-attention-to-the-isp-behind-the-curtain dept.

rsax writes "Bell Canada recently announced that it is launching a downloadable video store just as it is caught up in a government inquiry into its traffic-shaping practices. Some consider this a conflict of interest since several content providers were in the process of distributing TV shows using P2P technology before the Bell throttling issue started getting media coverage. Bell's FAQ states that it is not available for Mac users right now (and not Linux either of course) because they are using Windows Media DRM. They do, however, invite feedback on their site."

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Re:can traffic shaping be proved in court? by SlashWombat · 2008-05-22 22:13 · Score: 0, Flamebait

You don't ... you take to their network with an axe, Thus effectively doing your own network shaping. (PEAR SHAPED). Enough people do this and they will get the message.

Alternatively, create a group that continuously downloads legal ISO images. Structure the group to grow (friend of a friend of a friend). Bells bandwidth, even with shaping will eventually be insufficient to allow even their own traffic. Every 10 seconds, start another download ... (Should be easy to create a script for this task.)