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It's not dubious. That's exactly what DT has been doing for a long time. DT is partly owned by the German government, which might explain why it's been allowed
by rsingel 2y ago
It's not dubious. That's exactly what DT has been doing for a long time. DT is partly owned by the German government, which might explain why it's been allowed to be a bully.
It ran this same shakedown routine on an academic network in the middle of the pandemic.
It's run this against Hetzner.
It's the same playbook that Comcast/Verizon/Time Warner used vs Netflix/Cogent/League of Legends in 2014.
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2024/09/a-deutsche-telekom-shakedown-will-instagram-facebook-whatsapp-slow-to-a-crawl/ https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2024/09/a-deutsche-teleko..."
- throw0101d 2y ago> It's run this against Hetzner. * https://web.archive.org/web/20151208135240/http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Double_Paid_Traffic/en https://web.archive.org/web/20151208135240/http://wiki.hetzn... The reputation of DT(AG) is not good: * https://old.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/3uuulg/this_is_what_hetzner_a_local_hosting_provider_has/ https://old.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/3uuulg/this_is_... * https://old.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/1fpe8p9/meta_depeers_deutsche_telekom/ https://old.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/1fpe8p9/meta_de...