Block all P2P traffic

[Nod]

Source: ArsTechnica

In an open letter to Internet service providers published earlier this week, billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban calls for telecoms to put an end to peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing. Cuban expresses concerns that P2P "freeloaders" are clogging the tubes with commercial content. His letter doesn't focus on piracy, however, and instead primarily attacks companies that use P2P for legitimate commercial applications. We're always interested to read the musings of Mr. Cuban, but this time we're pretty sure he's missed the point.

And this raises the question: what, exactly, is wrong with users saturating their connections? They are, after all, paying for that connectivity, and most ISPs are keen to market their higher-cost, higher-speed services. Dictating how bandwidth can be used will not make bandwidth any faster or cheaper, nor will attempting to play favorites with what kind of Internet traffic is legit or not.

 

[Glordit]

If not p2p then someone will thing of something new to use!

 

[killadoob]

p2p is a bunch of crap anyhow

they should go after news servers which are 100 times better and 1000000000 more content that p2p programs

 

[Nick333]

p2p is a bunch of crap anyhow

they should go after news servers which are 100 times better and 1000000000 more content that p2p programs

It would appear that news server traffic is way easier to throttle, just ask IS.

American ISPs seem to be really annoyed by the fact that they have to keep reinvesting in infrastructure to keep up with demand for bandwidth, while in Europe and the far-east it seems to be accepted as par for the course.
The internet has always been a user driven industry, if big business insists on controlling it, it will become stagnant and crap. Just look at South Africa. The average "broadband" customer is shelling out hundreds a month for a always on email service.

 

[Ludjer]

p2p is a bunch of crap anyhow

they should go after news servers which are 100 times better and 1000000000 more content that p2p programs

you have obviously never had the honor to download from international private p2p sites
if you are talking about content, p2p has so much more content, have you ever searched edonkey, kad, gauntella and not found what you looking for. if you take all p2p networks into consideration then you will have more data then the news servers.

if you talking about local p2p, ok then it is useless, but but int p2p, those private sites, will take you speeds you have never seen before.

on my old dedibox i got 14-20 MBps thats round about 144-200Mbps thats from torrents, that max i got from usenet or giganews was 16-17 MBps. ok ye that was only when the seed2peer ratio was good.

if you had to "try" stop all peer2peer then you will have to block all the ports other then 80 and 21, but even then you can still use those ports to to p2p seen it a few times,

oh well who ever wrote that article is really computer illiterate.

Strangely, Cuban posted an update on his open letter, encouraging P2P users to use Google Video instead. "I wanted to offer the best alternative to P2P for audio and video..... Google Video. If you are trying to do distribution of audio or video, why in the world would you use P2P when Google Video will host and distribute it very efficiently and for free?"

lol

how can he compare HD trailers that you download through bit torrent to little flv online players i mean really,

also linux distros would be so much more harder to get hands on if torrents did not exist

some one needs to teach him something.
also the internet is designed to handle so much data
you wont go at different speed if your next door neighbor switches of his utorrent or something, the only difference is the latency might go down by 10 or 20 but overseas your latency is already 50 to 5 so i really dont see why he is complaining

 

[killadoob]

DUDE EDONKEY GNUTELLA ALL THAT IS OLD MAN

damn caps

i used to be on edonkey 24/7

i have used most p2p programs, most them require sharing which sucks

news servers are just amazing, have u tried international news servers? u should

 

[CathJ]

DUDE EDONKEY GNUTELLA ALL THAT IS OLD MAN

damn caps

i used to be on edonkey 24/7

i have used most p2p programs, most them require sharing which sucks

news servers are just amazing, have u tried international news servers? u should

Errr, yeah. That's kinda what peer to peer means.

 

[Ludjer]

DUDE EDONKEY GNUTELLA ALL THAT IS OLD MAN

damn caps

i used to be on edonkey 24/7

i have used most p2p programs, most them require sharing which sucks

news servers are just amazing, have u tried international news servers? u should

DUDE what does giganews or usenext mean to you?? there international news servers

im am talking about when you are over seas and you are running a 100mb line or greater

i was running a T4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_device_bandwidths line in Dubai
go here for more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-carrier

and i tried all those funkey services, nothing beat p2p, also when you have those lines, caps dont mean anything to you.

p2p>news servers.

but for south africa
p2p<news servers

 

[antowan]

Isn't there a song by DaftPunk that explains the solution to Mr Cuban's problem? Faster, better, stronger... I think it is called...



The problem is not what the consumer does, but what the telecoms companies are doing to speed things up...

 

[semiautomatix]

Keywords on Slashdot for this story:

censorship, internet, ****tard, clueless, trolling

lol

 

[Ludjer]

Keywords on Slashdot for this story:

censorship, internet, ****tard, clueless, trolling

lol

hahahahah lol