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Another Inventor of the Internet Wants To Gag It

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-so-fast dept.

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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  1. Re:so what by nomadic · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, but who decides what's "high priority" going from the consumer to the cloud?

    Whoever owns the router/switch/frame/NAP/whatever I'd guess.

    What makes your 6mbit line so special that your traffic gets precedence over mine? We're paying the same amount, shouldn't we get the same service, no matter WHAT we're transferring?

    Not if your contract with your ISP allows them to prioritize traffic. What does it say about the issue?