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The Pirates Will Always Win, Says UK ISP

Posted by Soulskill on from the except-in-pittsburgh dept.

TheEvilOverlord writes "The head of UK ISP TalkTalk, Charles Dunstone, has made the comment ahead of the communications minister's Digital Britain report that illegal downloading cannot be stopped. He said 'If you try speed humps or disconnections for peer-to-peer, people will simply either disguise their traffic or share the content another way. It is a game of Tom and Jerry and you will never catch the mouse. The mouse always wins in this battle and we need to be careful that politicians do not get talked into putting legislation in place that, in the end, ends up looking stupid.' Instead he advocates allowing users 'to get content easily and cheaply.'"

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  1. I don't see the problem by TheLink · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1) The websites would tend to load eight by eight. You would read the first one that loads up. There aren't that many people in the world who can read 20 websites at the same time AND do it quickly.
    In fact with my suggestion at least the first few websites would load up quick rather than all 20 websites contending for bandwidth.

    2) Uploading a video = 1 upload stream. Opening websites - 8 downloads. chatting = 1 voice stream. I don't see a problem there. It does not look like P2P.

    What does your dev server do? If it's a webserver for the public it will get squished down if there are many people downloading from it but that's supposed to happen - go figure out why yourself.

    3) How do I define it? That's up to the ISP.

    If you curb your P2P to a few kilo a second it stops being such a "big problem" right? At 5KB/sec it takes 11 days to transfer a 4.7GB DVD ISO. You may not consider that as "seriously clamp down on P2P" but I'm sure lots of P2P users will think otherwise.

    If you are running an ftp server to share photos and video between _many_ concurrent people in a design shop, I'm sure the ISP can offer you a commercial package.

    Otherwise 2 people downloading from your server at full speed and the rest getting throttled to crap till one of the two are done isn't such a big problem.

    It hurts bittorrent since each connection will be transferring different pieces.

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