P2P

Overheard: ISPs are not the Internet police

The industry’s trade body, the ISPA, has spent months in discussions with music and movie companies about ways of preventing illegal filesharing, but buoyed by recent success in France, the major record labels and Hollywood studios have lobbied the government hard for faster action. Richard Wray, Filesharing law ‘unworkable’

If you asked yourself “What recent success in France?” like I did, here you go.  Short version? There are less than a dozen ISPs in France. All the stakeholders got together and agreed that service providers in France will issue warning messages to customers who are downloading files illegally — and if the customer ignores the message, he loses Internet access.  An independent authority, supervised by a judge, will be in charge.  

Overheard: Who’s been eating my bandwidth?

The cynical side of me wonders whether the excessive buzz about P2P is intended to build public acceptance for tiered Internet service. Margaret Rouse

Why should IT care about BitTorrent or The Pirate Cove? Bandwidth. Nate Anderson got slammed for dramatizing numbers in his article Nocturnal P2P transmissions account for 95 percent of Internet traffic , but there’s some serious buzz again about what to do about peer to peer.

Overheard: P2P content distributors are nothing more than freeloaders

As a consumer, I want my internet experience to be as fast as possible. The last thing I want slowing my internet service down are P2P freeloaders. Thats right, P2P content distributors are nothing more than freeloaders. Mark Cuban, An Open Letter to Comcast and Every cable/Telco on P2P