And it's not just bit torrent that is getting blocked: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071021-comcast-traffic-blocking-even-more-apps-groupware-clients-affected.html
Like I said, the ISPs have oversold their bandwidth and now that people are actually starting to use their 3mb/6mb/whatever pipes instead of laying more infrastructure they are just finding better ways of blocking traffic. -- Brian Weeden On 10/22/07, j maccraw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I wasn't aware usenet.com was being sued.... > > http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/riaa-sues-usene.html > > RIAA can cry all day long, usenet (the protocol) has > been around too long to > suddenly be labeled as having no greater purpose than > facilitating copyright > infringement not to mention good luck shutting it > down. > > Sue Usenet.com as a facilitator encouraging piracy, > good luck. About as much > chance as suing an ISP for having a DMCA violator for > a customer, which is not > at all. Good news is even though uploaders have to > expose the IP's to the public > and they don't seem to be going away. > > ISP's care more about you serving up connections to > 100's of people than maxing > out your pipe using 20 connects to one server > downloading. > > > Brian Weeden wrote: > > You do realize that Usenet got sued last week by the > RIAA? Now the > > lawsuit was against usenet.com and really can't > touch the real usenet > > but it's not like it will stay a haven forever. > > > > With the new DPI (deep packet inspection) hardware > becoming more and > > more popular multimedia downloads of any size are > going to come under > > increasing suspicion and the ISPs are going to start > throttling > > anything they don't like. > > > > Kinda sucks when you can't even use the connection > you paid for. > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com >
