[101597] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Radabaugh)
Sun Jan 13 15:51:24 2008
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:48:56 -0500
From: Mark Radabaugh <mark@amplex.net>
To: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200801131712.m0DHC5x2007696@aurora.sol.net>
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>> I would be much happier creating a torrent server at the data center
>> level that customers could seed/upload from rather than doing it over
>> the last mile. I don't see this working from a legal standpoint though.
>>
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> Why not? There's plenty of perfectly legal P2P content out there.
Hum... maybe there is an idea here.
I believe the bittorrent protocol rewards uploading users with faster
downloading. Moving the upload content to a more appropriate point on
the network (a central torrent server) breaks this model. How would a
client get faster download speeds based on the uploads they made to a
central server? To solve the inevitable legal issues there would also
need to be a way to track how content ended up on the server as well.
Are there any torrent clients that do this?
Mark
