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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
So if one person watches a video through Youtube at peak time at 40Mbps and someone else watches it through torrents and uses 40Mbps at peak time why is the former somehow more entitled to use the same amount capacity which he is paying the same amount for?
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You are missing the point. The way you put it sounds so reasonable except that is not the reality.
Videos need to be streamed in real time, i.e. You are watching it there and then. Torrent downloads / uploads can be deferred to off-peak times. Given that, even on BT fibre, there are congestion issues, it seems only sensible and mindful of other users to defer what you can.
Torrents are targeted by VM because they can and often are left for very long periods of time, 24/7, using disproportionate amounts of capacity up and down. Videos tend to last for shorter periods of time, mostly using the downstream.