[100249] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Fri Oct 19 20:22:24 2007
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:22:45 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>, Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <47194089.8030609@psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> > I didn't know that you doing something illegal with your application
> > made it OK to block my use of it.
>
> p2p protocols are illegal? since when?
>
> p2p protocols are tools. like most tools, they can be used for good and
> for bad.
Where good and bad suddenly aren't moral/ethical questions, but financial
questions..
(Hi from "Clients are used to traffic shaping!" land.)
Adrian