[AusNOG] News: Telstra to clamp down on peer-to-peer

[Jeffrey Sims]

Lol what a come back! 

P2P will never die, Telstra will just lose more market share.

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On 06/02/2013, at 9:56 AM, John Lindsay <JLindsay at internode.com.au> wrote:

> those heroic champions over at iiNet who won when you sued them in court about P2P.
> 
> jsl
> --
> John Lindsay - CTO - iiNet
> 
> On 06/02/2013, at 9:11 AM, Paul Gear <ausnog at libertysys.com.au>
>  wrote:
> 
>> On 02/05/2013 09:29 PM, Shaun McGuane wrote:
>>> That’s a very valid point Skeeve.
>>> 
>>> I am wondering what they classify as a heavy downloader?
>>> 
>>>  
>>> The customer base willing to pay more for a higher GB download allowance.
>>> 
>>> Isn’t that just good business?
>>> 
>> 
>> This discussion suggests to me that Telstra's decision has nothing to do with bandwidth and everything to do with music/movie interest groups whom Telstra is trying to sweet-talk to increase their margins on Bigpond Music, etc.
>> 
>> I can hear the sell now: "You should give us an extra 2% wholesale margin because we're doing something about Internet piracy - not like those dirty pirates over at iiNet who fought you in court about P2P."
>> 
>> Paul
>> 
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