Will Idnet escape the clutches of The Digital Economy Act ?

[Gary]

I suspect he supplied the inside information.

True but how much of "To Play the King" has he in mind  

[zappaDPJ]

Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong

[Rik]

So does Big Ben.

[pctech]

As others have said I have a dreadful feeling Mandy will make a comeback in some form or another even if its just as a Government advisor.

Legislation like this shows that those in power have absolutely no knowledge of the technicalities of networking and the Internet.

I'd like to see filesharing in its current form at least banished because of the load it places on networks but the problem with that is that encrypted streams cannot be classified.

As for the music industry they have the answer to the problem, reduce the ridiculous prices of CDs.

[Rik]

Especially, abolish charging different prices in different markets.

[Technical Ben]

As others have said I have a dreadful feeling Mandy will make a comeback in some form or another even if its just as a Government advisor.

Legislation like this shows that those in power have absolutely no knowledge of the technicalities of networking and the Internet.

I'd like to see filesharing in its current form at least banished because of the load it places on networks but the problem with that is that encrypted streams cannot be classified.

As for the music industry they have the answer to the problem, reduce the ridiculous prices of CDs.

Legal file sharing seems to help the net, at least by providing part of the infrastructure. In that it provides free servers (in the form of users PCs) for file downloads. If the backbone of the internet cannot cope with demand, it's not the users fault (just as with traffic on roads). Google and MS get great speeds and service, because they can afford the servers, and the internet connection backbone to go. Illegal file sharing however...

[pctech]

The backbone is the problem.

You cant really compare Google to your average ISP.

Google has built and maintains its own transatlantic gigabit backbone dedicated to its traffic and MS uses a combination of having its own backbone and using Content Delivery Networks such as Akamai to cache content closer to the user and reduce the workload on its core servers in Redmond.

In both cases these companies know what they are serving and can more accurately forecast their bandwidth needs.

An ISP on the other hand may combine broadband with the sale of hosting, both of which can be unpredictable, thus making capacity planning difficult.