[100209] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Fri Oct 19 16:05:34 2007
In-Reply-To: <d800cd540710191210q287f0421qfd4cec437904b6d1@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:34:52 -0400
To: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Oct 19, 2007, at 3:10 PM, John C. A. Bambenek wrote:
> 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.
I didn't know that you doing something illegal with your application
made it OK to block my use of it.
Also, what _is_ my "fair share of bandwidth"?
--
TTFN,
patrick
P.S. I am making absolutely no judgement on whether block is good or
bad. Just wondering how other people rationalize doing, or not
doing, these types of things.
> On 10/19/07, Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Comcast-Data-
>> Discrimination.html
>> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Comcast-Data-
>> Discrimination-Tests.html
>>
>> Not a lot more I can say, other than argghhh!
>>
>>
>> --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>>
>
