BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

Wed Oct 24 15:39:14 UTC 2007

That misses the point. They are probably being forced to adapt by a monopoly or a quasi-monopoly or by the fact that transport into Australia is extremely expensive. The situation outside of Australia is quite different. A DS3 from Sydney to LA is worth about 10 DS3s NYC/London. 

It is not impossible to move people to these price schemes, but in a market with many providers, it is highly risky. 

A simpler and hence less costly approach for those providers serving mass markets is to stick to flat rate pricing and outlaw high-bandwidth applications that are used by only a small number of end users. 

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