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The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) at the University of Ottawa has posted to our forums saying they're starting an investigation into the throttling of P2P traffic by both Bell Canada and Rogers, a likely opening salvo in a larger class action lawsuit. "We are interested from hearing from individuals who are subscribers to Bell or Rogers’ high speed internet services who are concerned about alleged internet throttling practices by Bell and Rogers," says the organization. "If you were or are a subscriber and would like to express your concerns, please contact Robert Hester (e-mail in the forum link) at the CIPPIC."

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bryanviper

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Kill Them

Bring Them Down!

& get some more real Competition in Canada, may I suggest Verizon? I think they should come lay some fiber for us

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Re: Kill Them

Interesting!

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And the hammer comes down!

BOOM!

(...maybe...)

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Apparently the music thieves now drive internet policy

All this wailing and gnashing of teeth in the U.S. and Canada and around the world for that matter is driven by the music & movie thieves. Threaten to cut off their daily fix and they mobilize groups to restore their unlimited access to FREE content. God forbid anyone thwart their desires and off to court they go demanding their "rights".
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hottboiinnc
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Re: Apparently the music thieves now drive internet policy

i should go to the government and tell them its my right that I get a Mac for my computer. After all it doesnt get viruses so i'd be helping everyone.
minoe

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There is no question that the group you have singled out is involved in this fight. However, I think it's a little short sighted to imply that they are the only group with something at stake with this issue, which is really larger and more fundamental than your comment would suggest.

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July 11th, @11:12AM

@TK Junk:

Is this all you care about the poor Telco and Cablecos and not the common people these days??

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Re: Apparently the music thieves now drive internet policy

said by mrchris See Profile :

@TK Junk:

Is this all you care about the poor Telco and Cablecos and not the common people these days??
If by "common people", you mean music and movie thieves, then you are right - I don't care. But if you mean everyone else who pays higher prices to support the leaches, then I do care.
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nasadude

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Re: Apparently the music thieves now drive internet policy

we should shut down the internet to protect the **AAs, then tax consumers and give the money to the telcos to make up for the lost revenue.

that's a win-win! (except for consumers).

does that get it about right?

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said by TK Junk Mail See Profile :

said by mrchris See Profile :

@TK Junk:

Is this all you care about the poor Telco and Cablecos and not the common people these days??
If by "common people", you mean music and movie thieves, then you are right - I don't care. But if you mean everyone else who pays higher prices to support the leaches, then I do care.
Hello Mr.Troll!

I download Linux ISOs. I am not a thief yet i disapprove what these incumbent ISPs are attempting to do. Does this make me a thief that is trying to influence Internet policy ?

Adi
hottboiinnc
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Re: Apparently the music thieves now drive internet policy

You're the troll for calling TK one. he said people WHO DOWNLOAD MUSIC AND MOVIES! Not Linux ISOs. Go read his post.
backness

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Re: Apparently the music thieves now drive internet policy

It's still not polite to comment on other download habbits.

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said by hottboiinnc See Profile :

You're the troll for calling TK one. he said people WHO DOWNLOAD MUSIC AND MOVIES! Not Linux ISOs. Go read his post.
Nice try. This is what he said : "All this wailing and gnashing of teeth in the U.S. and Canada and around the world for that matter is driven by the music & movie thieves. Threaten to cut off their daily fix and they mobilize groups to restore their unlimited access to FREE content. God forbid anyone thwart their desires and off to court they go demanding their "rights"."

He basically blames this anty ISP reaction on pirates and simply chooses to ignore the positive uses of P2P as i described in my post. A troll is a troll.

Adi

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Re: Apparently the music thieves now drive internet policy

said by adisor19 See Profile :

said by hottboiinnc See Profile :

You're the troll for calling TK one. he said people WHO DOWNLOAD MUSIC AND MOVIES! Not Linux ISOs. Go read his post.
Nice try. This is what he said : "All this wailing and gnashing of teeth in the U.S. and Canada and around the world for that matter is driven by the music & movie thieves. Threaten to cut off their daily fix and they mobilize groups to restore their unlimited access to FREE content. God forbid anyone thwart their desires and off to court they go demanding their "rights"."

He basically blames this anty ISP reaction on pirates and simply chooses to ignore the positive uses of P2P as i described in my post. A troll is a troll.

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said by hottboiinnc See Profile :

You're the troll for calling TK one. he said people WHO DOWNLOAD MUSIC AND MOVIES! Not Linux ISOs. Go read his post.
ACTUALLY:this is whatTK wrote: All this wailing and gnashing of teeth in the U.S. and Canada and around the world for that matter is driven by the music & movie thieves.

that's what I call a blanket statement...
hottboiinnc
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Yep everyone on here as always is saying TK said something he didnt. HE said MUSIC and MOVIES he did not say anything about ISOs or anything else.

You guys need to learn how to read! Public libraries will teach you this.

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Well these "thieves" also tend to be the more tech savvy of us. They tend to not have white hair on their heads and green bills shoved up their arses.

So YES, the thieve have a great influence towards the web trends.

Here's the deal today, any web enabled pc can access youtube.com that handy site happens to have A LOT of music on it. Now I know your going to say, "Yea but...", here's the reality. UMG has starting putting their own music online. With just a few clicks almost any artist can be heard. Same applies for a few other sites too.

Personally I've not downloaded any music, as I've found most things on youtube.

Oh, since you can't return a cd, instead of sampling the cd in store, you download and listen at home. If you deem it worth a purchase, you proceed to the store and purchase it. If not, delete.

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July 11th, @04:17PM

Not all 'common people' pirate music and movies 24/7 as the stereotype you bring up..

Well I admit I do download music on occasion (not the popular shit some of you listen to, nor via P2P) just because I don't have the funds to buy every single CD. Some of them are even pricey or even not pressed anymore.

I use the internet for more...normal things like you do also..

»freemetalalbums.blogspot.com

Go ahead and accuse me of providing 'pirated' stuff, because the stuff this site links to is media provided by bands themselves.

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In YOUR opinion, after all opinions are like farts sometimes you can only stand the smell of your own brand.

But the point of the matter is throttled service affects everyone, I update my linux distro via torrent. I download public domain music off torrents all the time. I use you-tube, and many other bandwidth intense things. So how dare you say that those of us who want net-neutrality only do so to be able to download pirated materials!It is an uneducated, opinionated, and silly statement to make.

Cheers, and try not to make such a blanket statement in the future, it will spare you embarrassments, and flames next time 'round! Cheers

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Re: Apparently the music thieves now drive internet policy

said by realitybytes See Profile :

In YOUR opinion, after all opinions are like farts sometimes you can only stand the smell of your own brand.

But the point of the matter is throttled service affects everyone, I update my linux distro via torrent. I download public domain music off torrents all the time. I use you-tube, and many other bandwidth intense things. So how dare you say that those of us who want net-neutrality only do so to be able to download pirated materials!It is an uneducated, opinionated, and silly statement to make.

Cheers, and try not to make such a blanket statement in the future, it will spare you embarrassments, and flames next time 'round! Cheers
I would be spared flames if posters followed site rules. Too much to hope I guess.

And if you read the post you would see that I didn't say that ONLY those who pirate want net neutrality. I did say that the Pirates want net neutrality, but made no mention of other groups.
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Re: Apparently the music thieves now drive internet policy


TK - your statement attributes ALL of the angst about throttling to the pirates and thieves. Perhaps you should tone it back a bit as others did not misconstrue your statement. Use of a term like All instead of some or most is troll like behavior and would illicit the kind of remarks you received.

To set you straight, when you used the term ALL you did indeed say that only the pirates and thieves are involved.
rahvin112

join:2002-05-24
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If you TRUELY want to only pay for your own use and not the use of others you should be advocating per byte billing. Anything else is hypocrisy as per byte billing is the ONLY fair way to bill for exact amount of usage.

Personally I think you're damned selfish, we all pay for the use of others, you benefit from some, you don't on others. It's one of the aspects of living in a free open society with other people. If you only want to have to look out for yourself there are plenty of countries in this world that allow that Utopian paradise of every man for himself (Somolia being a prime example), most are rather sh!tty places to live but if it's what you want feel free to relocate. Otherwise just admit you're a self obsessed individual with no respect for your fellow species who'd rather not be a civilized member of a progressive society.

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Re: Apparently the music thieves now drive internet policy

said by rahvin112 See Profile :

If you TRUELY want to only pay for your own use and not the use of others you should be advocating per byte billing. Anything else is hypocrisy as per byte billing is the ONLY fair way to bill for exact amount of usage.
If you follow BBR front page stories on this subject, you would see that I have been pushing for per byte billing for at least a year or more. Ask anybody - I have been attacked for that very stance.
said by rahvin112 See Profile :

Personally I think you're damned selfish, we all pay for the use of others, you benefit from some, you don't on others.
And, of course, there is the PERSONAL attack - used by those who won't debate the issues.
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Is google a pirater too?

Theres no doubt google probably makes some money linking to BT sites, but 99% of their revenue comes from other searches, legit ones that I'm sure not even you can find a downside too. Yet theyre getting involved in this too...Why, for PR?

The non-narrow minded can see this is much more important then people getting their music fix. I'm sure your anti-BT thinking is well known on these boards... but to hate net neutrality all together? Come on...you can't be that narrow minded.

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said by TK Junk Mail See Profile :

All this wailing and gnashing of teeth in the U.S. and Canada and around the world for that matter is driven by the music & movie thieves. Threaten to cut off their daily fix and they mobilize groups to restore their unlimited access to FREE content. God forbid anyone thwart their desires and off to court they go demanding their "rights".
Seems like some PPL still don't understand it's not about music and P2P, and it Is about digging into users privacy and fleecing their money. This also translates to control over everyone.
All these hassles are created by satanic and luciferian organizations trying to instill New World Order everywhere. They have been at it for 1,000's of years. Go learn your history and how it applies today.
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Re: Apparently the music thieves now drive internet policy

said by root9 See Profile :

Seems like some PPL still don't understand it's not about music and P2P, and it Is about digging into users privacy and fleecing their money.
That's right. It's about inspecting the details of anything communicated, and altering/restricting them at will. Profit is the motive in this case.

Nobody will come out and say that's the reason, of course, so they resort to fake boogeymen like "pirates" in this case to gain support.
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Ah and what shall we do with our levies on blank media? Note that Canada is not alone in having their own little micro levies for the music industries on cds, tapes, and such. Some other places also include recorders, dvd players and so forth.

I simply don't see those going away, ever.

People tend to get uppity when money comes flying out of their pocket, and are accused of committing acts by proxy.

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said by TK Junk Mail See Profile :

All this wailing and gnashing of teeth in the U.S. and Canada and around the world for that matter is driven by the music & movie thieves.
said by TK Junk Mail See Profile :

Attacking the person instead of the argument they present is intellectually lazy. It's a substitute for thinking. It's also 100% flawed reasoning: you don't arrive at the conclusion from the argument presented."

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said by TK Junk Mail See Profile :

All this wailing and gnashing of teeth in the U.S. and Canada and around the world for that matter is driven by the music & movie thieves.
If Bell and Rogers haven't done anything wrong, they have nothing to hide.
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MCBob

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Open your eyes pal. You game? I do. Patches are coming out more and more exclusively via bittorrent. 800MB at 25KBps? have fun.
I use the internet for many different things. I stream, I download, I read, I listen, I chat, I send. This is the internet, period. Bell is degrading the one service it is selling. I don't condone downloading movies, but is it a big coincidence that they start throttling right before opening a storefront that deals in.. ddddd-dum.. movies?

Bell, and you my friend, are full of...
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Money

Money will prevail in the end. Everyone including the the Canadians can be bought.

The ones with bigger pockets will win or their customers will suffer with smaller Caps and higher prices. DSL will become unstable in many areas.

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Bravo..

I hope something good comes about this.

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Oh great, another taxpayer funded ivory tower "think tank" trying desperately to justify their existence.
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said by hurleyp See Profile :

Oh great, another taxpayer funded ivory tower "think tank" trying desperately to justify their existence.
They don't HAVE to justify their existence.

IF you happen to even spend 10-minutes of your time to check them out you will see they are active in many things that affect us regular Canadian citizens.

This is far from their only battle on YOUR behalf.

sheeez, some people

Thrudd

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Ivory Tower Think Tank

Ivory has been baned long ago and for good reason.

As for the tank, I hope and pray they actually have some effective munitions to blow the dreadnought ISPs out of the water.

Turn the cable/fibre backbone into a utility. Its a freaking cable and should be treated as such. It is a dedicated system with only 1 feed per customer, just like water, gas, sewer, hydro, et al. If they want to provide content then let them compete with everyone else on the planet or have em shot where they stand (not politically correct but I feel the Shadow of Putin/Bush over me today - the thought of Teddy and crew going down like Capone brings a tear of joy for some reason)
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July 14th, @05:02AM

Can you say "AntiTrust" ???

1) Microsoft has been fined billions of dollars for unfairly using it's position in the operating system market to defeat its competition in the applications market...secret API's that only MS knew about etc etc.

How is what Bell Canada is doing to indie ISP's any different?...they are using their upstream position to deliberately harm their competition.

2) "Deep Packet Inspection" ...how is what Bell Canada is doing to my packets in order to approve or disapprove of them going through the system any different than a Canada Post employee opening my snail mail to approve or disapprove of sending it through the system?...it's called 'Censorship' and it's a direct violation of free speech, not to mention rights of privacy.

3) I pay X dollars a month for Y Gigs of download at the rate of Z Megabits per second...if I stay inside my Y gigs, who's the hell's business is it what protocol, files, data is is the stream? Deliver what I paid for!

Bell Canada, enemies of freedom!...bust that company up now!!

ThrottlingSuxs

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Throttling needs to go. They already have monthly bandwidth caps to prevent bandwidth abuse. P2P is just another form of protocol for file transfer, and is used for both good and bad. (eg: FTP,Newsgroups,
IRC, and so on.) We seen the Newsgroups go, and there excuse to protect us from child porn. We have seen ports being blocked, and there excuse to protect us from spam. Did any of this actually work? No because the bad guys always find another way, while the good guys pay the price for it.
Whats is next? Throttling the entire Internet? Oh wait a min there already trying to do that. This is simply about nothing more than what makes the company the most money, while consumers pay the price.
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Advocates of Throttling and DPI

Those that think that throttling is good, read this statement carefully.

I don't know what bell is up to. But Rogers does throttle anything they feel like it. The moment they figure out what you do most. It gets throttled.

They have throttled my port 27015. Port 27015 is used for a game called counterstike. In effect trying to transfer tcp packs and having to re transfer tcp packets due to failed corrupted tcp packets, it has raised my latency in game to a gross amount. Also increasing my bandwidth usage. Please some one from the pro throttling crowd how this is good for me? Or good for the network.

I have also noticed ftp is being throttled and inspected. I build websites, so there for I need to upload to servers(all websites I make are "LEGAL"). Its wonderful news when I spend hours uploading and then start testing out the websites to find out there is corrupted files. Bad read and right on the DPI? I think so. So I waste my time looking through hundreds of files to find out where it is corrupt and then do a re-write and have to upload again. Again please tell me how increasing my bandwidth and wasting hours and hours of my time is good for me.

I also don't like the idea of rogers looking in my packets and seeing private information such as banking and other on-line business transactions.

This all started in November 2007 for me. Rogers before then was amazing.

I now monitor what rogers does with my net using NNAgent. I love how it tells me when my packets are being affected.

When I first noticed the problem, rogers denied everything. I asked if they were throttling or using DPI technology. They said "no".

When I found the evidence, I talked to them again. I asked why are you using throttling practices on applications I use over your networks. They said we do not use them at all. Then they resorted to, are you getting your speed. I said technically no. I said I have a 10mb connection. and lets say I downloaded 10mb for 1 file and it reached top speed of 10mb. Lets say that for this instant to simplify things. That 10mb file is 1 packet. Now if that file has to be sent to me 300 times before it is correctly sent to me due to your throttling and DPI inspection failures. That means my service is running at 33kbps. They then said your still getting 10mbs. As you could imagine I am seriously P'Oed at rogers and their disregard for their customers.

In conclusion, when these company's see something you use alot, they will throttle it.

Why would people want to protect blatant anti trust corporations?

People who say its good here is a scenario for you.

You use bell per say. But you have yahoo mail. Bell feels that you are not visiting msn for your mail and decides that you should use MSN. They throttle you browsing of yahoo to a nice .01kbps. Or they use their DPI to falsify packets that means increasing your bandwidth tremendously.

Now you are the ones crying.

If you don't stop them here they will continue pulling these stunts.
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