I find the whole idea of P2P bandwidth filtering as well as the ensuing arguments (i.e. someone has to pay for the bandwidth) incredibly week.
I will spare you the really overused and innappropriate car analogy but hear this:
Airline companies routinely oversell seats on most flights. It is a practice that is called overbooking and it ensures that if a passenger cancels or misses the flight, the otherwise empty seat will still be sold.
Now, the law in most countries is that every passenger has certain rights if they are denied boarding, i.e. they are entitled to accomodation, tarsnport to and from airport, etc.
I fail to see how the process of "overselling" bandwidth by advertising for unlimited broadband and providing anything but should be judged differently than the above example.
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I find the whole idea of P2P bandwidth filtering as well as the ensuing
arguments (i.e. someone has to pay for the bandwidth) incredibly week.
I will spare you the really overused and innappropriate car analogy but hear
this: Airline companies routinely oversell seats on most flights. It is a practice
that is called overbooking and it ensures that if a passenger
cancels or misses the flight, the otherwise empty seat will still be sold.
Now, the law in most countries is that every passenger has certain rights if
they are denied boarding, i.e. they are entitled to accomodation, tarsnport
to and from airport, etc. I fail to see how the process of "overselling" bandwidth by advertising for
unlimited broadband and providing anything but should be judged differently
than the above example.