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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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 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 <[email protected]> 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 >> >
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