Well, as far as I'm concerned WoW can burn and get blocked with the rest of the bad traffic because they are externalizing their maintenance costs on others. They should pay for the bandwidth to update their own software. On 10/19/07, Clinton Popovich <crpopovi@nauticom.net> wrote:
Who are we to say what is illegal traffic... I mean they could be downloading anything from p2p not just mp3's.. don't get me wrong I HATE WoW but it uses bittorrent to decentralize its updates.
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-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of John C. A. Bambenek Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:11 PM To: Steven M. Bellovin Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads
I love how the framed it as "data discrimination". Let's just be honest... 99% of it was illegal traffic taking up far more than their fair share of bandwidth.
On 10/19/07, Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Comcast-Data-Discrimination.ht ml
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Comcast-Data-Discrimination-Te sts.html
Not a lot more I can say, other than argghhh!
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb