Comment With respect to ISPs' concerns... (Score 1) 369
I can understand why the ISPs are worried about P2P traffic affecting all customers.
One of the great things about P2P is that it reduces load on servers. Servers are bottlenecks. However, P2P doesn't necessarily remove the bottleneck, just move it. I think ISPs are discovering that their pipes are now becoming the bottlenecks, and they're trying to protect their pipes.
Perhaps a solution is a relatively simple modification of P2P clients: modify them to favour peers that are closer (in network hops) over peers that are not. This would mean that most traffic would be *within* a network, rather than *between* networks, thus reducing load on the pipes between ISPs...
As for the DRM issues, I agree that BBC should drop DRM.
One of the great things about P2P is that it reduces load on servers. Servers are bottlenecks. However, P2P doesn't necessarily remove the bottleneck, just move it. I think ISPs are discovering that their pipes are now becoming the bottlenecks, and they're trying to protect their pipes.
Perhaps a solution is a relatively simple modification of P2P clients: modify them to favour peers that are closer (in network hops) over peers that are not. This would mean that most traffic would be *within* a network, rather than *between* networks, thus reducing load on the pipes between ISPs...
As for the DRM issues, I agree that BBC should drop DRM.
