Different day, but just another theiving ISP Company.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/03/25/bell-throttling.htmlBell Canada is slowing down access on its Sympatico internet servers for users who file share during prime time to prevent them from clogging the network, a spokesman said Tuesday.
Bell began the process, which it calls managing the bandwidth capacity but which is widely known as "throttling," on March 14. The company plans to have it rolled out across the Sympatico service area — Quebec and Ontario — by April 7, spokesman Jason Laszlo said.
It will be in effect during the peak period for internet use in late afternoon and the evening, he said. For people sharing files, the system "will simply not work as fast." But other users will not be delayed.
Bell, like other internet service providers, says it has capacity problems caused by peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing systems such as BitTorrent, which can be used to download movies, music and games. "We're certainly not unique in this," Laszlo said, adding that other service providers are managing P2P downloads.
Bell has not officially announced the throttling initiative, but Gaudrault found out about it last week and said Bell confirmed the move in a meeting he attended Tuesday.
People watching the impact of Bell's new policy have begun to chart affected areas on a Google map, and University of Ottawa law professor and web commentator Michael Geist raised the matter in his blog.
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It seems worrying that these ISP companies are claiming to be running out of bandwidth when they have been aware of newish developements such as streamed video delivery services and you tube etc for a while now, what we are seeing is the usual propaganda of blaming filesharers because the ISP companies are not willing to reinvest in their infrastucture at the level required, those penalised are after all only making use of what they have paid for.
