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Originally Posted by brundles
I think that's taking it a bit far. The ISPs have a limited supply of bandwidth and do what they need to manage it. The Azureus (and other BT client) developers only do what they need to do to stay ahead of the curve with their product - which is driven by the users. If all users were a bit more considerate of bandwidth limitations (or the bandwidth was their in the first place depending on how you look at it) then the encrytion functionality still wouldn't be in the clients.
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That doesn't really make any sense to me. Users were inconsiderate towards ISPs, ISPs fight back with shaping, BT client developers give users the facilities to remain that way.
I don't see how what I said takes it too far. No-one put a gun to the developer's heads and demanded the encryption / obfuscation the developers decided to do this to get around the shaping.
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1083
uTorrent dev seems more up for a race with the ISPs than anything else.
Shame he'll lose:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/71579 encryption won't touch that.
As I said before, worst case thanks to the 'free the bits' devs we'll end up with everything shaped unless the ISP knows for a fact it's not P2P.
EDIT: If anything these guys are really kicking themselves in the nuts, small ISPs who can't afford to shape will have to cap or go out of business, traffic shaping companies will make more money and be kept going by the 'arms race'.
It really is a long term no-win, even if in the short term it means improved performance for some.