Arguments For P2P Throttling Falling Apart
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I just saw an article about how Bell was recently required to release some of it’s data that was supposed to prove how torrents and P2P in general was causing so much network congestion that it was necessary to throttle P2P connections to keep it under control
Funny thing, the data they release, scant though it is, has proved the contrary to the point where the proponents of throttling should just pack their Delsey bags and head for the highway and not stop until they get to a little place I like to call reality. BitTorrent transfers in particular and P2P in general turns out to be responsible for congestion of a measly 2.6 to 5.2 percent of their network over a period of two months before they started throttling BitTorrent and P2P connections.
I think that this is just the beginning of the end of being able to justify throttling BitTorrent and P2P connections (or any other connections for that matter). Besides, the more that ISPs try to throttle such connections, the more that software developers are going to come up with ways to defeat that throttling. The ISPs really ought to save themselves a whole lot of time, money and aggravation and just give it up now.
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