Comments on: ‘Agile billing’ or, ‘Shaft File Sharers’

By: JasonN

JasonN — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:20:42 +0000

These guys over at Sandvine and Juniper are just a bunch of corporate douchebags who could care less about the rights of Canadians over the almighty corporate dollar! They have no moral “fibre” and the same goes for the CEOs at Bell and the rest of our Telco/ISP oligarchy collusion complex!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:03:40 +0000

“Not sure what I’d do about e-mail seeing as my ISP uses IMAP and that requires downloading the full message (pictures and all) every time it is read.”

You switch back to POP and configure your mail client to skip large messages (downloading first few lines only). Like in the old days.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:31:36 +0000

Tom = credibility zero

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:46:06 +0000

Perhaps this is Canada’s way of dealing with pressure from the **AA groups in the US?

By threatening privacy, they hope to deter the World’s #1 File Sharing Nation (costing the **AA groups $1 000 000 every picosecond) from further downloading (even legal purchases as BBC uses BitTorrent technology, iTunes Canada would be gone, free stuff from myspace, etc…) or streaming.

That’s right, kill the access to content and you don’t need to change your business models. Get this to work in a “pirate haven” like Canada and they can easily push it with fear through the US and then the rest of the world will follow.

No ISP will have to worry about traffic shaping because everyone will be the mindless sheep corporations want.

Yeah, I don’t think so!

Then again, apparently we P2PNet readers need to be open minded to be insulted (Sorry Thomas but you cast way too many insults after requesting to be open minded, that’s not cool and you will be flamed for it – I gave you the benefit of the doubt and read on and you lost a lot of my respect you once had) and we’re just first graders who know nothing.