Verizon, Comcast Say They Are P2P Friendly

An anonymous reader writes "Verizon and Comcast announced they will not 'block or throttle Internet traffic delivered via peer-to-peer networks' — essentially proclaiming that they are now P2P friendly. The decision came as a result of a test conducted with Verizon and Pando Networks, testing the benefits of a P2P/ISP partnership. During the test, the amount of P2P content delivered to Verizon subscribers from inside its network grew from 2 percent to 50 percent. This shows ISPs need to work with P2P companies to improve content delivery and manage traffic. Verizon also announced it will be looking at ways to use P2P technology to deploy new features on FiOS TV." Just the same, read on for one approach to mitigating likely tightening restrictions on P2P network use.

Another anonymous reader writes "RIAA/MPAA have recently been targeting torrent aggregators like PirateBay, because the aggregators are the vulnerable components of the BitTorrent protocol. A new open-source project to thwart such attacks was announced on p2p-hackers and released yesterday:

Cubit, a new open-source p2p overlay, enables the Azureus BitTorrent client to look up torrents via approximate keyword search... Cubit completely decentralizes the lookup process through an efficient, light-weight peer-to-peer overlay that can perform approximate matches. It performs searches without relying on any centralized components, and therefore is immune to legal and technical attacks targeting torrent aggregators."

Re:Right...

[grayshirtninja]

Exactly. ISPs are friendly to P2P traffic like alligators are friendly to chickens.

Re:Oh goodie!

[Tubal-Cain]

...for unlimited bandwidth and no more throttling!*

There. Fixed it for you.

A truce?

[Anonymous Coward]

Does that mean I should stop throttling their 'traffic' when one of their vehicles is the only one behind me on a single lane road?

Re:Right...

[street struttin']

in the last year I've uploaded 1.3 terabytes and downloaded 741 gigabytes.

Slacker.

Re:Right...

[0111 1110]

Can someone explain the reason of why it shouldn't be considered a form of stealing?

The difference between copyright infringement and stealing is like the difference between taking a photo of someone without their permission and kidnapping them. Or maybe the difference between kidnapping someone and cloning them from a stray hair. In one case the victim is quite aware of the "crime". In the other case it is difficult to even find a "victim" at all.

This just in...

[Anonymous Coward]

Fox, Wolf Say They Are Rabbit Friendly

And Bill Gates announced Windows is going FOSS

[unity100]

And steve balmer aint gonna throw any more chairs.