ISP Rise Against P2P Users

bananaendian writes "Spencer Kelly from BBC's Click program writes about the emerging backslash against high bandwidth P2P users. Apparently it has been estimates that up to one third of internet's traffic is caused by BitTorrent file-sharing program. Especially ISPs who are leasing their bandwidth by the megabyte are more inclined to resort to 'shaping your traffic' by throttling ports, setting bandwidth limits or even classifying accounts according services used. What is your ISPs policy regarding P2P and is it fair for them to put restrictions and conditions on its use."

My ISP

[cazbar]

My ISP limits me to 512Kbps download and 256Kbps upload so they don't have much to worry about.

Re:Inevitable

[Andy Gardner]

But surely if a resteraunt offers me all I can eat, and (assuming I was American) happen to be able to eat a wheel barrows ammount of food. Wouldn't I be entitled to?

I mean that would be the most blatant case of fraudulent advertising since my suit against the film, ``The Never-Ending Story''.

Re:did anyone honestly fail to see this coming?

[quokkapox]

ISP: Backslash
P2P: Forward slash. Riposte.
ISP: Touche. QOS Packet Filtering!
P2P. Lunge. Encryption!
ISP: En guard. Subpoena compliance.
P2P: Aahaaah! Ubiquitous Mesh Networks.
ISP: Arrrgh! [dies].

Where is BadAnalogyGuy when you need him?

Amount of Net Traffic

[RWarrior(fobw)]

From TFA: 1/3 of the traffic on the net is P2P traffic.

That means that only 2/3 of net traffic is spam?

Re:Just so I understand...

[caffeination]

Trying to kill the car analogy on Slashdot is like trying to ram every bad driver you see off the road. Sure, you can take a few out and maybe make the papers, but you'll never get them all before your car stops working and you're banned from driving.

Re:did anyone honestly fail to see this coming?

[Saeger]

Well, you see... ubiquitous wireless mesh networking is sortof like a car that's efficiently shared by a dozen people in the area. i.e. it's COMMUNISM! And if the mesh links are encrypted with random hops between nodes (like Tor/Freenet) then it's secure and anonymous like a carbomber who can't be tracked down. i.e. TERRORISM!

I think I've made my point-by-car-analogy quite clear.

Re:No problem

[jb.hl.com]

P2P hogs expect to dine for close to free.

Gee, I'd never expect that people too cheap to buy their own CDs and DVDs wouldn't want to pay more to get them for free. :D

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I am SHOCKED, SHOCKED to learn

[Ogemaniac]

that P2P abusers do not want to pay for their goodies: Neither the bandwidth NOR the content.

Re:did anyone honestly fail to see this coming?

[Anonymous Coward]

Popular myth suggests that given enough geeks and enough typewriters, they will eventually write something funny.

Slashdot proves that the myth is false.

Re:did anyone honestly fail to see this coming?

[Beryllium Sphere(tm)]

> Where is BadAnalogyGuy when you need him?

Right now he's like a car parked on the wrong side of town.