Rogers explains ‘shaping' policy

[James Knott]

Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> 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.
>   

There are also technical reasons why asymmetrical service is easier to 
provide.  One is the amount of bandwidth allocated to upload, bearing in 
mind this technology was developed long before cable internet access.  
Another issue is resolving contention between users.  When downloading, 
the data is simply sent out on the wire as quickly as possible.  On the 
upload side, there has to be some method of ensuring all users properly 
share the available bandwidth.



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