Another Inventor of the Internet Wants To Gag It

MojoKid writes "Lawrence Roberts is just another guy with the title: 'Inventor of the Internet' in news articles. According to Wikipedia, he's the father of networking through data packets. And he's turned his attention to everyone's favorite data packet topic: Peer-to-Peer file sharing. He's established a company called Anagran, and says their devices can sort out which file transfers on the tubes are P2P, and — you guessed it — can throttle them in favor of other, more 'high-priority' traffic."

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Re:so what

[Kohath]

Indeed. Maybe the debate should start going beyond "I should get anything I want and anything else is Hilter-like"? What do you think?

Because this is an engineering problem with trade-offs and pros and cons for different answers. And "I want the network configured to benefit me" isn't a valid argument on a shared network where different configurations benefit different users doing different things.