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Bittorrent To Cause Internet Meltdown

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the packet-schmacket dept.

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."

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  1. Hello! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hello!

  2. Well Duh by TheRealMindChild · · Score: -1, Troll

    You can't blame your wife for stabbing you in the face when you keep locking her in the bedroom. When you threaten someone, their choice of retaliation may not be the smartest way to go about it, but then again, WHAT DID YOU THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN?

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    "When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
    1. Re:Well Duh by korekrash · · Score: -1, Troll

      This isn't a matter of your wife stabbing you in the face, it's more like a career criminal stabbing a jail guard in the face for locking him in a cell.

      I'm tired of hearing about these idiots that just want to steal everything cry about "fairness". It's a joke. They should allow P2P to be blocked completely and get it over with. I don't want to hear about "legitimate use" of torrent either. I'd bet at least 2/3 of all torrent traffic is for pirated movies, music or software and a large portion of the remaining 1/3 is probably porn.

      Not to mention it's making the large game makers ditch the PC, like EA did with Madden 09 this year, because of all the piracy. Block P2P and I bet piracy goes way down and legit users get more bandwidth...if not only temporarily....Although I'm sure the idiots will keep finding a way to "retaliate" because we lock down the criminals.....

  3. A little extreme there, don't you think? by MikeRT · · Score: -1, Troll

    Informative? Try more like "troll" or "flamebait."

    Using your stupid analogy, this would be more like threatening to raze the entire city to the ground because no one intervened to stopped the wife from being locked in the bedroom.

    You know what I'd like to see happen? Anyone who is caught using uTorrent with this setting gets their broadband internet access contract torn up. Don't even pretend that most bit torrent traffic is legitimate and legal. For every Linux DVD image distributed by bittorrent, there is probably dozens of times that much data in blatantly bootlegged content being distributed.

    1. Re:A little extreme there, don't you think? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      "I don't care. I have *never* pirated anything over bittorrent, even thought I've used it a number of times."

      The unverifiable claims are the easiest to fabricate.

    2. Re:A little extreme there, don't you think? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      shut it nig lover

  4. Greed by glrotate · · Score: -1, Troll

    The whole point of 95% of torrent transfers is that the users are greedy and don't care about anyone but themselves. They couldn't care less about stealing to the point of killing one golden goose (the music industry), what makes you think they give a hoot about killing the internet?

  5. Re:Joe the Plumber? by thebheffect · · Score: 1, Troll

    A real plumber, not an unlicensed faux plumber.