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So Mark Cuban thinks it’s a good idea to block all p2p traffic, thanks Mark!

He goes on to say…

“Thats not to say there isnt a place for P2P. There is. P2P is probably the least efficient means of distributing content in the last mile. Comcast, Time Warner, etc should charge a premium to those users who want to act as a seed and relay for P2P traffic. After all, that is why P2P is used, right ? For content distributors to avoid significant bandwidth and hosting charges. That makes it commercial traffic far more often than not. So make them pay commercial rates.”

I definitely welcome the idea of not having my internet being entirely too slow, and welcome the idea of having people not abuse their bandwidth for seeding the latest episode of Dragon BallZ. However, you have to go the other way on this issue as well.

Broadband providers must also offer consumers a lower-priced alternative

If Cuban agrees that charging heavy users more money for bandwidth, that’s okay, but it also means that you have to offer customers a cheaper alternative to usage as well.

AT&T and their pathetic public display of $10 DSL is an example of the ISPs wanting to have their cake and eat it too.

So next time you write your open letter to the ISPs, Mr. Cuban, please be sure to leave in the footnote about me not wanting to pay $50 to AT&T to just check my email and browse the Internet in non-dialup, shoot-myself speed.

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