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Bittorrent To Cause Internet Meltdown
Gimble writes "Richard Bennett has an article at the Register claiming that a recent uTorrent decision to use UDP for file transfers to avoid ISP 'traffic management' restrictions will cause a meltdown of the internet reducing everybody's bandwidth to a quarter of their current value. Other folks have also expressed concern that this may not be the best thing for the internet."
you just want to bully other people out of their bandwidth so you get more.
Um, what?
How can I "bully" anyone? My modem is capped at the speeds Comcast sold me, no more, no less. In addition, I have a monthly transfer limit.
If Comcrap can't provide what they are selling ... they shouldn't be selling it. Oh, but wait! That's not their fault, it's those users! They're actually trying to use what was sold to them.
I'm not a big bit torrent guy, except for WoW and other legitimate torrents. But the thought that people are being told that they can't use bit torrent for any technical reason is silly - it's the ISPs over-selling and under-delivering, plain and simple.
Note how your interesting explanation hasn't been modded up? You should added some 'foam at the mouth' reactionary stuff about the ISPs turning of the interwebs, and possibly a little 'conspiracy theory', in the first paragraph,then you'd have been modded up.
A learning experience is one of those things that say, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.' - D. Adams
If I sell you a garage for 2 bucks a month, you might wonder but you will probably take the deal. Then you come around and notice that someone else is already standing in the space I sold you, and I tell you that you're allowed to use that space to park your car but only when it's free. Would you be happy? I guess not.
thats a great way to highlight how you should read the contract you sign when purchasing a service. Apparently, the garage you are operating is only for people to stand in, not park cars. I tells ya, I would be some ticked if I rolled into your garage with this huge smile on face because I just found the best deal in the world..monthly parking for 2 bucks!! wooohoo! then as I go to pull into my new spot.. I see that there is a guy standing there. I honk the horn and try to wave him threw..but he just stays..sipping on his coffee and shoots me a dirty look. so I honk again..and he yells 'this spot is taken..find another!'.
(I realize that you probably meant that there is another car parked in my brand new spot..but I just couldn't get that picture out of my head. a guy just standing in a car-sized space in garage. haha)
The basic sleazeware produced in a drunken fury by a bunch of UCBerkeley grad students was still the core of BIND. --PV
You know this, and I know this, but the OP claimed that the other person "knew damn well" that they were using a shared line. The telephone companies sold DSL as a dedicated line, and thus the argument of "dedicated lines cost way more" and "you knew damn well that it was a shared line" is invalid.