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I agree it's unfair to the customer, but the message is still being twisted to serve corporate interests. ISPs have been throttling bittorrent for a while now a

• SomeCallMeTim 12y ago
  If the corporate interests align with my interests, I'm fine with them standing up for my rights by accident, as it were. I'd like to see a world with no BitTorrent throttling too, but given that I don't watch BitTorrent video in real time (or even use it for the most part), it's harder for me to get worked up about that. Don't get me wrong: I support the concept of complete net neutrality. It's just harder to achieve a political goal when only a small minority of people are affected.
• Sir_Cmpwn 12y ago
  Loads of people make a fuss about bittorrent throttling, you know. Spend 5 minutes on Google backing up points before you make them.
  • JDDunn9 12y ago
    Not even close to the hype about net neutrality. Spend 5 minutes researching before spouting off garbage.
• pdonis 12y ago
  > ISPs have been throttling bittorrent for a while now That's because bittorrent uses a lot of upstream bandwidth, and the ISPs' contracts with their customers already explicitly limited upstream bandwidth to be much smaller than downstream bandwidth. With services like Netflix, the vast majority of the bandwidth is downstream. (That's not to say that I'm in favor of the standard ISP contracts: basically the ISPs want their customers to be passive consumers of content, not active creators of it, which has been a big factor in creating the system of highly centralized services we have today, rather than a much more robust system of decentralized services that was the original vision for the Internet. But that's a whole other argument.)