RE: Comcast blocking p2p uploads

["Scott Berkman" <scott.berkman () reignmaker net>]

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: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] 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 <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