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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


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