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Given the global pushback against ISPs from the content industry and assertions they're knowingly profiting at the expense of content - including various threat
by Pahalial 17y ago
Given the global pushback against ISPs from the content industry and assertions they're knowingly profiting at the expense of content - including various threats of legal or legislative action - do you really believe any of them would let you profit at their expense? Such a system would be the very first thing throttled into oblivion by any packet shaping.
The ISPs would naturally (and rightly) demand a profit-sharing agreement in exchange for unblocking this app. Their share would have to cover the costs of their bandwidth - and at that point, why not just do as every CDN worthy of the name has already done and put servers in their network?
While this is a nice thought experiment, I frankly don't see it being any more successful this time around than previous attempts at the same. Perhaps less so, as network administrators everywhere now have more experience disrupting P2P and ISPs are more vigilant.