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Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads


From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:21:37 -0400

In a message written on Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:21:09PM -0400, Joe Provo wrote:
Content is irrelevent.  BT is a protocol-person's dream and an ISP
nightmare. The bulk of the slim profit margin exists in taking 
advantage of stat-mux oversubscription. BT blows that out of the 
water.

I'm a bit confused by your statement.  Are you saying it's more
cost effective for ISP's to carry downloads thousands of miles
across the US before giving them to the end user than it is to allow
a local end user to "upload" them to other local end users?

Is this only a biproduct of the centralized downloads being throttled
by thousands of miles of network, and/or a single centralized server?

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