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

    Others have probably been doing it already.

  2. Legality by biryokumaru · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is that even illegal? I think that's the whole reason for the Net Neutrality debate here in the states, and I don't actually know if it's illegal here yet... although I may be ignorant of some more basic law there that covers this kind of thing. But have our more politically enlightened friends in France made it illegal yet?

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    1. Re:Legality by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It's France. Petit Napoleon probably already passed a law that butchers the internet freedom without anyone noticing.

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    2. Re:Legality by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Is that even illegal?

      It is illegal. There are laws that protect users and allow them to access the sites they want.
      If Orange is not happy with a given site, they have to follow a legal procedure to close the site, not prevent the users from accessing it.

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

    *Cough*

  4. Re:I'm fine with this by cyber-vandal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So it's not your job to supervise your child then.

  5. Just plain incompetence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I am working for France Telecom/Orange in a service directly involved with this problem, and I can assure you that this throttling is not true.
    Actually, we had the same problem with Youtube, and at the same time other ISP had the same issue though they resolved it faster than us ... Which lead to just apologizes: yes FT/Orange is not the cutting-edge ISP and Telco it used to be; but No we are not doing it on purpose.

    1. Re:Just plain incompetence by GPLHost-Thomas · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Has it ever been cutting-edge? Come on! The market in France is only pushed thanks to the innovations of "Free". If they weren't around, every French would still use a stupid Sagem modem, no TV over IP, no IP phone and such.
      What made everyone laugh head-off was the "Ma ligne TV" thing, were you had to choose between ADSL or TV over IP. What a joke.
      Exactly what was the cutting-edge thing you were talking about?

  6. Re:I'm fine with this by gordguide · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't see your point. If he's sharing the home connection, and it's a problem due to his use, then the father needs a backbone. I don't care how old the son is.

  7. As said a thousand times ... by McTickles · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It is a peering issue, France Telecom is trying to push OpenTransit on the market by making Level3, Cogent look bad.

    Orange users can, as I told them many times before, contact the OpenTransit NOC to complain.

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

    Yeah the father needs a gigabit backbone.

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