{"id":4354,"date":"2008-01-24T12:39:26","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T19:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/01\/24\/frisco-weekly-into-the-fray\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T12:39:26","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T19:39:26","slug":"frisco-weekly-into-the-fray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/frisco-weekly-into-the-fray\/","title":{"rendered":"Frisco Weekly into the Fray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tA generally gushy article on the EFF and Comcast appears today in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfweekly.com\/2008-01-23\/news\/bittorrent-comcast-eff-antipathetic-to-fcc-regulation-of-p2p-traffic\/3\">The Frisco Weekly<\/a>, making one telling point:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA 2007 study by professors at Clemson University offered solid proof that as few as 15 BitTorrent users on a Comcast-like network could degrade downloads and uploads for everyone else, making streaming videos stutter, or causing other delays. The popularity of BitTorrent, combined with video-streaming sites like YouTube, now clogs up the Internet, Comcast says. That&#8217;s why the company says it performs &#8220;traffic management&#8221; to keep the lanes open for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Comcast has repeatedly denied that it can &#8220;block&#8221; BitTorrent traffic. Instead, a spokesman says all ISPs &#8220;manage&#8221; Net traffic to ensure all customers can receive e-mail and surf the Web. Peer-to-peer users of BitTorrent are a bandwidth-hungry minority, Comcast contends. <\/p>\n<p>[BitTorrent creator Bram] Cohen agrees. In fact, it&#8217;s something he predicted when he first thought up BitTorrent. &#8220;My whole idea was, &#8216;Let&#8217;s use up a lot of bandwidth,'&#8221; he laughs. &#8220;I had a friend who said, &#8216;Well, ISPs won&#8217;t like that.&#8217; And I said, &#8216;Why should I care?'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why indeed, as long as somebody else pays the bill?\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A generally gushy article on the EFF and Comcast appears today in The Frisco Weekly, making one telling point: A 2007 study by professors at Clemson University offered solid proof that as few as 15 BitTorrent users on a Comcast-like network could degrade downloads and uploads for everyone else, making streaming videos stutter, or causing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/frisco-weekly-into-the-fray\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Frisco Weekly into the Fray&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-18e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}