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Jockey for Position
by Andrew McCaskey
The sharp elbows and mistruths are not limited to the current Democratic political campaign. There is more than enough to go around in the jockey play between folks like Comcast, AT&T, the FCC and members of Congress.
The latest testimony regarding Comcast seems to point to traffic shaping that does not particularly target peer to peer traffic. In fact, it looks like the latest culprit for resource consumption is not p2p but streaming video from the likes of YouTube, Hulu, and the low profile but apparently heavily used Veoh. Add in Joost, Livestation, uStream, Mogulus and a half dozen other video sites, and you will begin to see how the traffic concerns of ISP grow.
Peer to Peer – and especially bittorrent make such an easy and attractive target, mainly because the RIAA and MPAA have been doing the heavy attack publicity for so many years that ISP’s feel relatively safe calling out politicians to “solve” that problem.
It looks like the greater bandwidth consumer, by far, is the streaming services – and operators like Comcast want a piece of that. In fact, a large helping. So in the guise of fairness – punishing shady characters who are probably stealing anyway – ISP’s assert their property rights to the pipes . Net neutrality be damned.
If ISP’s get the political muscle to negate net neutrality then it’s theirs. All of it. And with care, those pesky competitiors can be snuffed out, one by one. After all, they control the pipes.
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