[100219] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Fri Oct 19 16:56:44 2007
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:07:27 -0400
From: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <031101c81285$c8ff3d20$5afdb760$@net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 10/19/07, Clinton Popovich <crpopovi@nauticom.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
At this point in Internet evolution, if you're squeezing out the
pennies on bandwidth by filtering the user experience without the
applicable knobs to choose, you are wasting all of our time.
IIRC, TOR helps get around such "tools" as Sandvine, etc;
http://tor.eff.org/overview.html.en
Best,
Marty
