[100221] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Comcast blocking p2p uploads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Berkman)
Fri Oct 19 17:08:05 2007
From: "Scott Berkman" <scott.berkman@reignmaker.net>
To: "'Patrick W. Gilmore'" <patrick@ianai.net>, "'Nanog'" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:14:24 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <41C5E185-5164-48ED-A157-2BD095E4E8CD@ianai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
This is a good point too. Comcast has refused to define what exactly their
limits are so assuming all the content is legal, how does a law abiding
citizen know when he is over his limits?
-Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Patrick W. Gilmore
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:35 PM
To: Nanog
Cc: Patrick W. Gilmore
Subject: Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads
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
>>
>
