This seems a pretty clear explanation of the issue and everyone trusts Cal, right?
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~raylin/whatisnetneutrality.htm Scott On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:16 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I understand that the ruling simply stated that the FCC has little or no > right to regulate the internet, specifically not to require "net neutrality" > allowing Comcast to limit certain activities. I believe that the ruling can > result in selective practices perhaps censorship by the ISPs. Not a good > thing, but perhaps someone has more detailed info. > > best Paul > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Owen Densmore <[email protected]> > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > Sent: Thu, Apr 8, 2010 11:30 am > Subject: [FRIAM] Net Neutrality Ruling > > Has anyone made sense of the ruling in Comcast's favor? > > As I understand, they cut down bit-torrent due to bandwidth usage. But that > makes no sense, it is not a real-time protocol. If they wanted to manage > bandwidth, they would presumably go after Hulu, Amazon, Netflix etc. > > I'm not even sure how successful a bit-torrent block would be -- each > person chooses their own port address. There is a default port but all are > warned to change it for security reasons. And there are no bit-torrent > servers, but lots of peers sharing. Any file you download are fragments from > several peers. > > -- Owen > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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