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BitTorrent s plan: Ride the video wave to the bank

Posted on May 30, 2008

For almost a year, a private war of sorts has been waged on the tubes of the Internet: A handful of large Internet service providers, challenged by the traffic loads caused by peer-to-peer file sharing protocol Bittorrent, have been secretly, persistently blocking Bittorrent traffic. The community has fought back, enlisting media and political support to force the ISPs to observe Net neutrality the concept of treating all traffic equally.It s a fight with broad implications, one that has the potential to set precedents for how business is handled on the Internet of the future, and with n...

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