Comments on: NTCA uses RIAA blitz in traffic throttling war http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16523 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16523/comment-page-1#comment-644239 Reader's Write Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:02:09 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16523#comment-644239 "Like colleges and universities, wireless phone carriers also have no apparent anticompetitive reason to manage P2P traffic flow". Selling prioritized content isn't reason enough? Look at virgin media; they eagerly accepted the enforcer role because their interests are aligned with the BPI / RIAA / MPAA etc. How can they possibly compete with free? they don't need to, instead they just block / restrict all other content except their own. US carriers are looking over the pond at virgin media and are envious. It's only a matter of time before they implement the same policies. After all, they want to sell their own content, get paid for selling user data to advertisers, as well as charge exorbitant prices for a crippled service don't they? “Like colleges and universities, wireless phone carriers also have no apparent anticompetitive reason to manage P2P traffic flow”.

Selling prioritized content isn’t reason enough? Look at virgin media; they eagerly accepted the enforcer role because their interests are aligned with the BPI / RIAA / MPAA etc. How can they possibly compete with free? they don’t need to, instead they just block / restrict all other content except their own. US carriers are looking over the pond at virgin media and are envious. It’s only a matter of time before they implement the same policies. After all, they want to sell their own content, get paid for selling user data to advertisers, as well as charge exorbitant prices for a crippled service don’t they?

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16523/comment-page-1#comment-642426 Reader's Write Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:47:55 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16523#comment-642426 Sharing does nothing to the cartels, except increase their prices. But that stupid greedy tactic can't work in this case. It gives ISPs a contrived excuse to throttle bandwidth but in reality it's what they always do out of lying, thieving, swindling business practice. That's what makes them and the cartels such good bed buddies. Perhaps they'll try getting the oil and tobacco cartels onside also. Sharing does nothing to the cartels, except increase their prices. But that stupid greedy tactic can’t work in this case.

It gives ISPs a contrived excuse to throttle bandwidth but in reality it’s what they always do out of lying, thieving, swindling business practice. That’s what makes them and the cartels such good bed buddies. Perhaps they’ll try getting the oil and tobacco cartels onside also.

]]> By: A_F http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16523/comment-page-1#comment-641903 A_F Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:58:06 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16523#comment-641903 well, the minute the cable coms give their internet customers EACH the ability to use a fat pipe as fat as those pipes that universities allow theri studwents to use, then they mgiht come again with the right to regulate that one customer does not use this 1gigabit line on full speed p2ping. Until then they are offering only an limited "smalband" (compared to 100/100 megabits lines that are considered Normal in industrialised countries elsewhere!) for their customers and if the usage of such a throtled smallband in its full potential as it is advertised to the customer produce problems for them, then they (the COMPANIES I mean here!) should be punished for fraudulent advertising and all that stuff) "those pesky 5%..." well, the minute the cable coms give their internet customers EACH the ability to use a fat pipe as fat as those pipes that universities allow theri studwents to use, then they mgiht come again with the right to regulate that one customer does not use this 1gigabit line on full speed p2ping.
Until then they are offering only an limited “smalband” (compared to 100/100 megabits lines that are considered Normal in industrialised countries elsewhere!) for their customers and if the usage of such a throtled smallband in its full potential as it is advertised to the customer produce problems for them, then they (the COMPANIES I mean here!) should be punished for fraudulent advertising and all that stuff)

“those pesky 5%…”

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