Thread: Traffic Shaping
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Old 31-03-2006, 23:49   #76
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Re: Traffic Shaping

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Originally Posted by Hans Gruber
So they'll be forcing people off the, relatively easy on the network, newgroups and onto, bandwidth sapping, bittorrent? Sounds like a plan
Great post, but there's a reason why, I think...

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Originally Posted by Rob C
I wonder how traffic shaping of P2P stuff relates to the Bittorent trial
Bingo!

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Originally Posted by Toto
Absolutely Frank.

The implications that an ISP would cache files for download, where the distribution of those files could be, and will likely be in breach of copyright laws are interesting indeed. I am not sure an ISP can hide behind conduit laws if this was the case.
But what makes you think stuff on ntl's servers will be illegal....

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Originally Posted by mudkumpf
Hehe - not wishing to start a flamewar here, but what's "not legit" about bitTorrent in and of itself? You can download 5 CD Linux Distros on BitTorrent and that's 100% Legit.....Muds
err, theft legal??

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Originally Posted by Chris W
If people want to leech and leech that is fine, ........
but ntl don't make any money out of it....

Is it not obvious...???
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