[governance] UK imposes technical measures against P2P

[Roland Perry]

In message <965A47B5-44F0-4CF2-8769-B1F34E98A561 at psg.com>, at 08:00:46 
on Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Avri Doria <avri at psg.com> writes
>Since the UK telecoms has long been suspected of doing the same to 
>Skype traffic,

They have? As a UK resident that comes as news to me.

>it would hardly surprising to find that they have the  equipment in 
>place already.

Currently, several ISPs have "traffic shaping" that is bandwidth-driven 
rather than content-driven. As a commercial decision, you can buy an 
access account which has a daily bandwidth cap, and p2p is one of the 
obvious things which might trigger such a thing.
-- 
Roland Perry
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