BitTorrent’s plan: Ride the video wave to the bank
For almost a year, a private war of sorts has been waged on the tubes of the Internet: A handful of large Internet service providers, challenged by the traffic loads caused by peer-to-peer file sharing protocol Bittorrent, have been secretly, persistently blocking Bittorrent traffic. The community has fought back, enlisting media and political support to force the ISPs to observe Net neutrality — the concept of treating all traffic equally.
It’s a fight with broad implications,… Continue Reading