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Originally Posted by Hugh
'earlier' would be in post #213 when someone made a comment about VPNs being used to avoid being caught downloading copyright material, you stated (quite accurately, but not relevant to his comment) that p2p could be used to legally distribute material - if it was legally shareable, why bother with a VPN?  |
Well one reason would be certain ISPs throttling P2P to hell.
Traffic shaping kit does not distinguish between P2P data that is copyrighted or not, so a legitimate user may need to use a VPN to get the full speed of the connection they are paying for, for what they believe is a legitimate use.
Course I never did P2P on my VM connection so I can't say how bad it is there, but since P2P shaping is far more prevalent in the UK than, e.g. the US, the point applies broadly to most UK consumer providers.