[100205] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Comcast blocking p2p uploads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clinton Popovich)
Fri Oct 19 15:52:06 2007
From: "Clinton Popovich" <crpopovi@nauticom.net>
To: "'John C. A. Bambenek'" <bambenek@gmail.com>,
"'Steven M. Bellovin'" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <d800cd540710191210q287f0421qfd4cec437904b6d1@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:25:19 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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
Systems Administrator
Nauticom Internet Services - An NPSI Company
2591 Wexford-Bayne Road, Suite 400
Sewickley, PA 15143
Tel: 724-933-9540
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of John
C. A. Bambenek
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:11 PM
To: Steven M. Bellovin
Cc: nanog@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@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Comcast-Data-Discrimination.ht
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Comcast-Data-Discrimination-Te
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> Not a lot more I can say, other than argghhh!
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> --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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