http://www.xbox.com/en-AU/Live/Foxtel/

It's almost useful. Quite nice (in a 60 second review). I would not use it.

I simply dont use sites that open new windows when you follow links. If I wanted it in a different browser window I would right click "new tab" or "new window".

The real question becomes the actual power of the search engine behind the singing and dancing starting point - but thats not the point of this article.

Even more interesting than doing something so painful as slowing down all ports:

The Packetshaper

Basically, this technology allows you to cap or switch off traffic categorised by packet signatures. We've just implemented two of them at the university I work at, and the moment our network engineer enabled it, you could search on kazaa, but downloads would simply fail to connect. Other P2P services were equally sucessfully blocked.

Of course, there are plenty of HTTP tunnels out there which provide an effective means of bypassing such a system...it will be interesting to see if the P2P networks themselves start to look at encryption layers and such technologies to bypass devices like this one.