[Leaplist] Torrent and filesharing throttling got Verizon spanked

[Damien McKenna]

On Oct 27, 2007, at 2:42 AM, Fred Moore wrote:
>> OK, lets get this straight.  There's a difference between having
>> different speed plans for customers to buy, and charging the
>> *websites* a rate to get faster speeds to the customers.
>
> OK lets get this straight.  For a car you can buy a Dodge, Chevy,  
> Ford,
> Honda, even a Suzuki.
[snip]

Blocking ports is something else entirely, my point was about  
allowing customers to buy the speed of service they need.  Other than  
bittorrent, which I've not used in probably 3 years so can't comment  
on, I've not seen any ports being blocked by Brighthouse (I'm in  
Sanford).

> In my mind there is a very big difference between good business and a
> monopoly.  Thats why we pay 10 times the amount everyone else in the
> world pays for bandwidth.

Ditto for some cellphone services.  In most other countries you don't  
pay for incoming calls.

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