Re:Tell your boss you quit ... (Score 1)

What really irks me about asking Slashdot about the morality of shaping is that you already know the types of responses you will receive.

The above response was modded to 5:Insightful, which really shows you what agenda Slashdotters have on network access:

Application of QoS/Shaping is not EVIL. Failing to give lower QoS (including shaping) of the 5 percent of users who are damaging the reliability of a service for 95% is ludicrous.

The costs involved in these file sharers is significantly greater than the mean, and it is quite likely that no significant Service Level Agreement is in place for home users.

Many of the arguments about legal liability are fallacious and scaremongering.

Any ISP who provided a contract which said or implied that actual download speeds were equivalent to access speeds would be foolish to say the least. I have never seen such a thing.

In the case that 5% of people are upset with throttling, it's financially in the company's interest to let them leave.

Given that at least half of peer-to-peer traffic is other peoples' copyrighted material, you have no obligation to assist people to break the law. Threats of legal action could readily be countered by profiling/capturing the traffic sent through the ISP for legal discovery purposes.

I understand that there are many open source users who would readily make use of peer-to-peer systems. I would suggest that you provide a local mirror for open-source projects, which would limit your upstream costs, and remove the need to use peer-to-peer systems to retrieve open-source updates.