Bell's Own Data Exposes P2P As a Red Herring

dougplanet writes with news from the Canadian-throttling front: "As ordered by the CRTC, Bell has released (some) of its data on how torrents and P2P in general are affecting its network. Even though there's not much data to go on, it's pretty clear that P2P isn't the crushing concern. Over the two-month period prior to their throttling, they had congestion on a whopping 2.6 and 5.2 per cent of their network links. They don't even explain whether this is a range of sustained congestion, or peaks amongst valleys."

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Re:Is "I told you so" appropriate?

[Anonymous Coward]

There is NO reason to believe anyone in business who cannot show WHY they need legal help, or rights to invade your privacy to protect their business

P2P is simply being used as the pike that gets network monitoring in the door. No, I have no actual proof of that, but if it were the danger that it is said to be, there would be plenty of evidence

Listen - I think you need to brush up on some rudimentary logic and debate skills.

As for the +4 insightful, I dunno how your nonsensical rant got that. The ISPs are doing this for one thing and one thing only - limiting actual usage decreases costs while not having to invest in infrastructure, thereby increasing profits. Nothing malicious - just greed.

Re:I knew it!!

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