With one side of their face, Rogers and Bell say they need to control and slow down certain kinds of traffic across their networks, such as peer-to-peer and video streaming (and allegedly VoIP). With the other side, they are offering new video streaming PPV services and ever higher connection speeds.
How are we to believe that their networks are choking requiring the molestation of our connections, while they keep offering speeds that should in theory choke their network even further? Retorical question folks. We should not believe them.
Incidentally, World of Warcraft is a pay/month service that uses P2P traffic to spread updates between their members. Are the world’s millions of WOW players being unfair penalized when they are using their P2P for completely legitimate purposes? Is there, or more importantly, should there be an effort to force Bell/Rogers/Comcast/Verizon to differentiate between legitimate and illegitimate P2P traffic? I think the burden should be on them to not filter the kind of traffic I was just discussing.
