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As a content company who owns ISPs, I would LOVE NATs. Why? Keeps P2P like BitTorrent, soulseek, gnutella, and newer protocols crippled. And content creators d
by pierat 3y ago
As a content company who owns ISPs, I would LOVE NATs.
Why? Keeps P2P like BitTorrent, soulseek, gnutella, and newer protocols crippled. And content creators don't want people consuming content other than through themselves.
And a NAT can also differentiate between "consumer household" and "business" - do you get a real IP or not?
It's also why companies like Comcast zero-rate their own content.
EDIT: for you -1'ers ; you DO realize that most mega-ISP-content companies want the push-style of the television back, right? And these companies will institute NAT, data caps, and "3 strikes" to boot people off.