On 1/5/2015 8:47 PM, John Levine wrote: > > http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/05/gogo-in-flight-internet-says-it-issues-fake-ssl-certificates-to-throttle-video-streaming/ > > They claim they're doing it to throttle video streaming, not to be evil. > > Am I missing something, or is this stupid? If they want to throttle > user bandwidth (not unreasonable on a plane), they can just do it. > The longer a connection is open, the less bandwidth it gets.
I suspect that throttling user bandwidth is not the goal. Instead they are attempting to strip out embedded video from within http streams. Since the video stream might be sent over the same tcp connection as non-video content they can improve the user's experience by delivering all but the video. Jeffrey Altman
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