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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:Mod Article Down by Hal_Porter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The problem he wants to solve is how to make someone who's trying to bring up a quick mapquest page be able to do so without sitting there waiting and waiting, and eventually wondering whether there're five people on his subnet downloading the latest 18G celebrity midget porn video. If he solves that problem, then Comcast won't care about using more stupid methods of throttling our celebrity midget porn.

    Your honour! Celebrity midget porn exhibit A
    http://defamer.com/5019704/mini+me-sex-tape-conclusive-proof-that-our-civilization-is-doomed

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