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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."

3 of 147 comments (clear)

  1. I Suppose Caught is the Keyword by ConaxConax · · Score: 5, Informative

    Others have probably been doing it already.

  2. Re:Yeah but by Shikaku · · Score: 4, Informative

    *Cough*

  3. Re:Legality by johnjaydk · · Score: 4, Informative

    Thank god, that leaders like him are in short supply. A man who requests SMALL bodyguards.

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