Comcast blocking p2p uploads

Fri Oct 19 19:35:44 UTC 2007

Well, as far as I'm concerned WoW can burn and get blocked with the
rest of the bad traffic because they are externalizing their
maintenance costs on others.  They should pay for the bandwidth to
update their own software.

On 10/19/07, Clinton Popovich <crpopovi at nauticom.net> wrote:
> 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
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of John
> C. A. Bambenek
> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:11 PM
> To: Steven M. Bellovin
> Cc: nanog at 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 at 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
> >
>
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