[95245] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Tue Mar 13 12:26:59 2007
In-Reply-To: <ED0B4715-E0C8-4513-9A44-1B2E4B5EF572@ca.afilias.info>
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:15:43 -0700
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mar 13, 2007, at 9:11 AM, Joe Abley wrote:
> So long as most torrent clients are used to share content
> illicitly, that doesn't sound like much of a business driver for
> the DSL/CATV ISP. And so long as the average user doesn't have an
> alternative provider which gives better torrent sharing
> capabilities, there doesn't seem to be much of a risk of churn
> because of being torrent-unfriendly
er, that's why I put a smiley below it. Like this:
;>
In all seriousness, DVR-on-demand type services offered by the SPs
themselves would be one driver. Right now, they're all overlay
networks which the SPs don't view as being directly monetizable. If/
when they offer such services themselves, however, I, predict this
will change.
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