Mark Cuban Urges ISPs to Block P2PSo competing services can challenge his HD channel...
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old news - 09:39AM Wednesday Nov 21 2007)
tags: Video · Fileswapping · business · Oddities · HDTVHDNet CEO and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban cries out for attention with an
open letter to Comcast and other ISPs urging them to block all p2p traffic:
As a consumer, I want my internet experience to be as fast as possible. The last thing I want slowing my internet service down are P2P freeloaders. Thats right, P2P content distributors are nothing more than freeloaders. The only person/organization that benefits from P2P usage are those that are trying to distribute content and want to distribute it on someone else's bandwidth dime.
In a
second post, he rattles on about the inefficiency of p2p file distribution, and offers up this gem, which compares the use of p2p with the re-selling of mac and cheese:
I think the position that "you pay for the bandwidth, so you can use it any way you want" isn't reality and very flawed when it comes to P2P. . . Bottom line, you are re-selling bandwidth. For those of you who like the buffet analogy, that's like saying you paid for the buffet, so its OK to take as much jello and mac and cheese as you can carry and walk outside the restaurant and sell it or trade it.
Cuban has been trying
so very hard to convince the world that the Internet is not capable of legitimate video delivery. He's supporting an outright ban on p2p because he knows it will eventually compete with traditional broadcasts and disrupt his bottom line. His portrayal of p2p as
"evil mac-and-cheese theft" (TM) masks a fear of having to someday compete with operations such as
Vuze.
