Airtel Broadband blocking torrents and file sharing services

[manu1991]

Especially with linux distro's. As it is you aren't paying anything for it. The least you can do is save their bandwidth costs.

 

[itzmynet]

instead of putting the bandwidth cost on a single party it is actually being shared between multiple parties involved.

 

[huyogi]

When the other party, as in your case the Ubuntu servers, find it in their interest to make the direct downloads freely available, why then? Why persist with this outdated use of torrents which were invented, i suspect, solely to make stuff accessible in an age when it was not so. Torrents should be restricted only to private networks if it is for the purpose of saving bandwidth costs.

 

[Sushubh]

you have no idea what you are talking about. do you? a lot of 'modern' services rely on torrents. torrent is not a outdated technology. it is becoming more and more relevant today with the number of web users only increasing.

 

[manu1991]

torrents were invented much after http.torrent streaming is one area which can become hugely popular. as the number of web users keeps increasing massively, companies with streaming sites will have to spend millions and millions of dollars into servers which can be greatly reduced by streaming through p2p networks.

 

[MonsterBallsofDoom]

When big studios start caring about small markets , i'll stop pirating . And if they don't care about small markets then they shouldn't worry about anyone downloading their stuff without paying if that person is from that small market . I have an original windows installed , orginal MS Office. If they start airing or atleast releasing uncut version of their shows in india even 10-15 days later as compared to their main markets , i'll stop pirating . If i had an option like Amazon or netflix , i'd never pirate .

 

[huyogi]

you have no idea what you are talking about. do you?

a lot of 'modern' services rely on torrents.

torrent is not a outdated technology.

it is becoming more and more relevant today with the number of web users only increasing.

Heh. You said it. :sheepish grin: But i am dead on when i intuit that p2p is mostly used for piracy. Don't know about those "modern services" and how they work, i shall have to turn to some tutoring from you and statistics for that.

 

[Sushubh]

the simple thing is that not everyone can afford to launch a data intensive service because of the high bandwidth costing.


Joost was an excellent example that was probably way ahead of its time.


p2p is probably going to become even more relevant in the coming years.

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a very simple example is of course a localized platform like hayai zone which mgcarley is planning to offer.

if you are downloading something through p2p, you can get it a LAN speeds from other people on the same network.

it helps everyone involved.

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netflix recently had to increase their subscription prices. a lot of it is due to the costing of acquiring media rights. but they are increasingly becoming a major headache for ISPs in the US market.

if it was p2p based, everyone would benefit. people would get faster and cheaper access to netflix. netflix would save bandwidth costing. ISPs would have lesser load over a wider network.

 

[huyogi]

If some sort of copyright clearance or authentication could be associated with these, that would toe the ethical line is what i sez.

 

[linkingeek]

nope they aren't throttling at night...from around 1030pm to 12 am, sometimes even more, i get normal speeds.
Maybe Also you having encryption "on"

Yes they are, uncapping after 12:00 and uTP is still blocked ,try it yourself enabling uTP:Confuzzled: