French ISP Throttles Direct Download Website

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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Re:I'm fine with this

[Anonymous Coward]

I didn't say he was doing anything illegal - just slowing down our network. It's the modern equivalent of a teenager hogging the one landline that families use to have.