Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

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 <smb () cs columbia edu> 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