From: Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com>
look at the history, various ISPs like Verizon,
Comcast, etc, have done
stuff like block bittorrent, skype, etc
Bittorrent is a complex situation, some ISPs were ordered by a court to block
it.
As to Skype, I agree ISPs shouldn't block sites - but if you read my message,
I already said that.
The problem is I paid for the bits. Bits is bits. I
paid for a rate,
that's what they got paid for, why should they get to charge a second
time for the same bits? That's exactly what they want to do.
Fine, you pay your money, you get X Mbits/second.
If you (or the site you're getting bits from) wants _more_ than X
Mbits/second, charging you - or them, which is I gather mostly what ISPs want
to do - for that privilege is a problem... how?
Noel