[ NNSquad ] Re: [OT?] NN definition(s?)

[Brett Glass <nnsquad@brettglass.com>]

At 10:13 PM 11/10/2007, Richard Bennett wrote:

> I would contend that BitTorrent is the best example of "Background" or
> "High Througput" traffic ever devised, so its default TOS is too high.
> And because it's too high, it interferes with the user's own VoIP,
> video-streaming, and web browsing traffic unless the user has Phil
> Karns's sophistication and equipment (unlikely, of course.)

Here's a very key point, and one I don't think anyone has brought 
up yet in this forum: There's an economic side to this issue as 
well. Were BitTorrent traffic all legitimate, it would be limited 
by simple economics. No one could afford to download every song or 
movie in the world if he or she were paying for the content and it 
were being distributed legally! So, if everyone acted within the 
law, the load would be, at least to some extent, self-limiting.

In the real world, however, we have uncontrolled and rampant piracy 
of intellectual property, and many people who hoard the pirated 
content. So, the load is sure to become intolerable. The issues of 
copyright infringement and excessive use of bandwidth are thus 
inextricably intertwined.

--Brett Glass, LARIAT.NET