Bell Canada Launches Its Own Online Video Store

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."

Comments

can traffic shaping be proved in court?

[crazybit]

How can we prove a provider is shaping our traffic?

they will probably allege the slow download is because of net traffic, spam, etc.

transparent bridges for traffic shaping are very hard to detect