Rogers explains ‘shaping' policy

[Evan Leibovitch]

Jamon Camisso wrote:
> Limiting upload speeds across the board will be a great way for ISPs
> to unwittingly help out recreating the asymmetric relationship (like
> television) between users and the media they consume, e.g. slow
> posting to youtbe for those who use it etc.

What makes you think this is unintentional? ("unwittingly")

Rogers owns a number of print and broadcast media outlets and has a
strategic relationship with Yahoo. They have every interest in
maintaining (and indeed enhancing) an asymmetric relationship between
"providers" and "consumers" of data. P2P -- even for
legitimately-copyable content -- blurs the distinction and scares the
crap out of them.

- Evan
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