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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."

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

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

  3. 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.

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

    Yeah the father needs a gigabit backbone.

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