Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?

Geo. geoincidents at nls.net
Mon Oct 22 10:18:02 UTC 2007



> In the absence of the P2P applications, the limits were fine, so hurting 
> the P2P
> application may be a preferable solution to the ISP charging everyone more
> to support the excessive bandwidth usage of the 2-3% of subscribers who 
> use
> P2P applications,

I'd like to know where you get the 2-3% numbers? I mean the RIAA is sueing 
single mothers and children so it sure looks to me like it's likely way more 
than 2-3% of users running P2P apps at least some of the time.

Geo. 




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