This is a good point too. Comcast has refused to define what exactly their limits are so assuming all the content is legal, how does a law abiding citizen know when he is over his limits? -Scott -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Patrick W. Gilmore Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:35 PM To: Nanog Cc: Patrick W. Gilmore Subject: Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads On Oct 19, 2007, at 3:10 PM, John C. A. Bambenek wrote:
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.
I didn't know that you doing something illegal with your application made it OK to block my use of it. Also, what _is_ my "fair share of bandwidth"? -- TTFN, patrick P.S. I am making absolutely no judgement on whether block is good or bad. Just wondering how other people rationalize doing, or not doing, these types of things.
On 10/19/07, Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Comcast-Data- Discrimination.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Comcast-Data- Discrimination-Tests.html
Not a lot more I can say, other than argghhh!
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb