Comments on: Canadian Content Producers Take a Stand for Net Neutrality

By: Bell’s New Bandwidth Caps Could Turn Canada Into an Oldteevee Wasteland

Bell’s New Bandwidth Caps Could Turn Canada Into an Oldteevee Wasteland — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:01:29 +0000

[...] prevent you from accessing newteevee. That’s why Bell’s got P2P throttling. The telco has been in the headlines repeatedly in recent months because it also started to impose Comcast-like P2P throttling measures [...]

By: BitTorrent Inc. Shares Internal Data About P2P Throttling [NewTeeVee]

BitTorrent Inc. Shares Internal Data About P2P Throttling [NewTeeVee] — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:40:15 +0000

[...] ISPs have been throttling their subscribers’ BitTorrent traffic for years, and the CRTC recently started public hearings to figure out if government intervention is [...]

By: BitTorrent Inc. Shares Internal Data About P2P Throttling

BitTorrent Inc. Shares Internal Data About P2P Throttling — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:02:08 +0000

[...] ISPs have been throttling their subscribers’ BitTorrent traffic for years, and the CRTC recently started public hearings to figure out if government intervention is [...]

By: timekeeper

timekeeper — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:25:48 +0000

Ah, but your not taking into consideration who holds the internet distribution rights to that content. Maybe NBC does not have those rights and are held by a Canadian distributor.

The fragmentation of distributors makes for a real messy solution as different distribs may negotiate a different rev share.

By: Thee Stranger

Thee Stranger — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:40:30 +0000

If NBC is so concerned about piracy in Canada, perhaps they should allow them to watch their programming via Hulu, instead of making them watch on of the Canadian network websites where their vid quality ranges from garbage to absolute crap.

By: timekeeper

timekeeper — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:48:26 +0000

Throttling is a slippery slope, on one hand the MPAA lauds it to stop copyright infringement but then on the other hand if ISPs know what's moving down their pipes they can't hide behind the DMCA.

I don't really buy that whole argument of BitTorrent only being used for copyright infringement either. If ISPs are going to throttle BT, why not throttle FTP, HTTP, email, and NNTP.

ISPs should back off, give subscribers access to unlimited internet at the speeds they were promoted to the customers and start acting like its 2009 not 1999.