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Originally Posted by Flashpoint
Uh huh. I am sure the majority of Bit Torrent and Gnutella users are companies engaged in legitimate business.
Riiiiight...
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I agree with you that pirating is morally bankrupt activity (just go buy the damn CD you cheap skate). But de-prioritizing bit-torrent traffic, or otherwise differentiating between data traffic in general is a bad idea going forward.
This is the debate the spawned the infamous "internet is full of tubes" quote. Any interference in net traffic opens the door for certain ISP's to control where we can go on the internet. Say... Disney doesn't like people going to Dreamwork's website/store... they walk down the hall to AOL and get them to slow traffic to Dreamworks across their network. If Comcast can do this to a certain type of traffic, why wouldn't any ISP/Teleco be able to do the same to the traffic flowing across their network?
This will lead to a multi-tiered internet that will ultimately hurt us as the users.