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French ISP Throttles Direct Download Website

Posted by timothy on from the naw-just-selectively-boosting-the-rest dept.

siliconbits contributes this snippet: "In what might be the first of many, French Internet Service Provider Orange has been caught throttling traffic to one of the world's biggest direct download websites, Megaupload. The site, which also operates Megavideo, states that Orange, which is owned by France Telecom, is preventing its users from accessing its downloading and video streaming service freely and says that it can prove it."

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  1. Be careful francies... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    You don't want an invading army of filesharers to roll in and take over your country.

  2. I'm fine with this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    My son downloads so much stuff that I would hope more ISPs do this. Hopefully this will deter him from slowing things down at home for all the reset of us!

    1. Re:I'm fine with this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Darn right! Just like you, I want more police at cinemas and amusement parks so if my son cuts the line he learn his lesson, same with traffic.

      And someone needs to be there checking for the ice cream to, the little b**** sometimes eats it when I'm not home! Someone needs to stop him.

      I also pay for the water at the house, and my son takes 1 hour showers, can the aqueduct do something to prevent this? Same when he plugs stuff to the power outlet, I need the power company to do stuff about it, when he was a baby, he got shocked when putting the fingers inside the power outlet! I had to pay a lot in electricity that month, not counting the darn medical bill!

    2. Re:I'm fine with this by TheLink · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah the father needs a gigabit backbone.

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