arstechnica.com — Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban has called for Comcast and other ISPs to block P2P traffic on their networks. But Cuban overlooks some of the most important uses of P2P, and why things like BitTorrent are so widely embraced.
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Closed AccountNov 23, 2007
Cuban is still angry over the mavs losing to the heat a few years ago. He's just taking it out on p2p users. Your team sucks and so does your backwards thinking.P2P is the future, if the ISPs have squandered the money given to them by the government to build faster lines, service, etc....it's not P2P users fault. It's the ISP's fault for not keeping up with technology demands.
icsuNov 23, 2007
poverty
eddie_sNov 23, 2007
Mark Cuban is to the internet what Al Sharpton is to race relations. In the end both are irrelevant.
ampersand2001Nov 23, 2007
yeah, he's actually worse. he wants to throw everybody in jail for file sharing. does richard simmons actually have a computer?
hassanchop13Nov 23, 2007
cuba gooding jr is second only to jesusassh**e
grumpyrainNov 24, 2007
Can you explain to me how the ISPs have additional bandwidth? The ISP is serving you content whether that comes from a large web server or from another users connection. Of course, it is easier to cache files from a web server, but P2P can also be effectively cached by the ISPs seeding to their own networks. In fact it is just a different type of load. Now of course the P2P model has resulted in sharing of multimedia documents being practical. The problem is that the ISPs advertise a service they can't actually deliver.
nossieNov 24, 2007
if you read what I said... you'd see that I never said ISPs had additional bandwidth. I said that they OVERSOLD their bandwidth. E.G They are selling bandwidth that they simply don't have and then moan when their customers actually want to use what they've paid for.I assume you may have replied to the wrong post....
linuxpenguinNov 25, 2007
I wonder if he realizes that the Internet does not differentiate - traffic is traffic. A thousand people from your area downloading stuff from Google will cause just as much traffic as if they were downloading it from someone else. Sure there might be less uploading, but still. . .An ISP can recognize when someone is using BitTorrent and block it, sure, but is having the Internet be slow because everyone's downloading their movies from Google Video really better in any way than having it be slow because they're getting these videos from BitTorrent?
Closed AccountNov 26, 2007
I'd say a certain reply I got was more noobish then the question itself. And yes, what a douche indeed, along with the idiots that dug him up.