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CRTC Rules Bell Can Squeeze Downloads

Posted by samzenpus on from the throttle-away dept.

pparsons writes "Bell Canada Inc. will not have to suspend its practice of 'shaping' traffic on the Internet after a group of companies that resell access to Bell's network complained their customers were also being negatively affected. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission today released a decision that denied the Canadian Association of Internet Providers' request that Bell be ordered to cease its application of the practice to its wholesale customers."

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  1. In the US by Hubbell · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's their hubs/backbones, as well as the fact that they do not guarantee certain speeds. Also, the traffic getting shaped is almost always pirating of some form (and yes, it has happened to me and it was while downloading fansubs, which are technically illegal). What right does the government have to tell a company what to do with it's own property?