Comments on: ISPs fight against encrypted BitTorrent downloads

By: DigitalJunkie

DigitalJunkie — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Unlike Allot Communications I hope ISPs are technology savvy enough to learn disrupting efficient transfer protocols would damage their broadband business & other internet businesses in the future!

By: meyou123

meyou123 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

The ISPs know that if they start to tick off their users then there WILL be reprecussions! Most know that the majority of bandwith is BT traffic but are the ISPs willing to risk it if they tick off the BT users and those customers in turn drop their broadband service? That is up in the air.

What we DO know is that when a lot of ISPs had the chance to turn over personal information to the RIAA/MPAA…most refused to do it. Some that did were sued. Now this indicates to me that they are aware that if they tick off their broadband users that use BT they will have to pay a price for it.

Some argue that BT users are only a small minority that would not matter if they dropped their broadband service but if they actually start to impliment this….we may soon find out.

By: kokanezub

kokanezub — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

shit if i cnt get wut i want with broadband ill get dialup from netzero for 9.95 with compressed web surfing. thats all i need to chat and browse.so once p2p is gone so is my 50$ broadband.

By: meyou123

meyou123 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I hear ya kokanezub…I feel the exact same way. It would be stupid of me on my part to pay a 50 dollar fee every month for broadband and a 25 dollar fee on top of that to get giganews! If I am just gonna surf….I can get netzero dialup and use their free plan for 10 hours a month! I actually have that as a backup in case my broadband goes out and I am in the middle of an ebay deal when I am selling something.

By: meyou123

meyou123 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I personally think that if ISPs are going to start throttling back on bandwith they had better get ready to throttle back on customers as well!

By: serrebi101

serrebi101 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

yep yep sad if they implament this.

By: Nogoodpunk42

Nogoodpunk42 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

what throttle back on bandwidth? cause people are using it? I for one would like to fight this if anyone is with me let me know. Imagine a world where you buy a dozen eggs and use all of them. The egg companies can’t handle it so now we can only buy 10 eggs at a time for the same price. Is that fair? Then anything related wouldn’t be either right?

By: Myrodushin

Myrodushin — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Bittorrent works pretty will on dialup btw lol

By: PM Harper

PM Harper — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I’m with Shaw and haven’t felt the throttle yet We’ll see!
I’d hate to go back to Sympatico I had quite the nest of wires / switches ect…
But one nice thing about Sympatico they NEVER hasseled me about usage! not once! Shaw cried about it twice those babies (waa just because the connection is allways on doesen’t mean you can dl constantly waa…) lol