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. Clinton Popovich Systems Administrator Nauticom Internet Services - An NPSI Company 2591 Wexford-Bayne Road, Suite 400 Sewickley, PA 15143 Tel: 724-933-9540 Fax: 724-933-9888 Email: crpopovi@nauticom.net Web: http://www.nauticom.net -----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